Posted on 02/07/2020 7:09:19 AM PST by Liberty7732
There is a dramatic political realignment happening and it is not clear that the media or many Democrats or establishment Republicans see it.
This really has nothing to do with the impeachment fiasco undertaken by Democrat leadership or the immoral and illegal Russia collusion hoax. This is far bigger than that, bigger than Trump the man. Both parties are changing rapidly and it reflects the changes in America coming to a head.
The Democratic Party is clearly miles further left than it was during the Clinton Administration when Bill Clinton and Al Gore actively tried to pull it back toward the center, even then, almost 30 years ago. But too much of the party base now is willing to drag it to the radical left, as we witness with former Communist and current Socialist Bernie Sanders surging into the lead for the nomination after finishing a close second four years ago. This is the man who wants to nationalize healthcare and now nationalize the nation’s electric companies. Full-on Socialist.
But for this to happen, the Democratic Party is undergoing deep changes. It has become much more of a high-education, wealthy, and very bottom economic rung party, moving away from the middle class, working blue collar voters that used to dominate the party. It is being driven by an entitlement mentality as evidenced by the endless freebies that Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and others at the economic top promise to those nearer the economic bottom. It is also a more collectivist party, which also fits with Bernie.
This is a continuing leftward lurch from the Obama community organizer model which was also collectivist, but not as overtly.
Finally, the Democratic Party is home to the political correctness that says a biological man is an actual woman if he feels like his is, despite science. It is the PC that allows anything to be said of “whites,” but inserting blacks or Hispanics or any other group would be grounds for dismissal, while the modern feminist critique that everything wrong with the world is the fault of men, and specifically white men, reigns unchallenged. This prima facia nonsensical thinking is really only acceptable to those who either have spent many years in universities or are located in the cordoned bastions of Hollywood and the media establishment. And it’s true, those are the bases of the Democratic Party, which is part of the realignment going on.
This paints a picture of a very different Democratic Party. Still a leftist party, but not actually populist as much as elitist in thinking, at least in its appeal to core constituencies. For example, free college and elimination of college debt is obviously aimed at college students, who often think in the elitist terms, but are frequently at the low end of the economic ladder during the college age and right after.
On the Republican side, the realignment is also striking, and it flows in part from what is happening in the Democratic Party and in part from the Republican Party ignoring important issues for too long, i.e. nearly open immigration and unfair trade agreements. The big picture with Donald Trump is not that he is vulgar or mean to people or has a history of cheating on his wives. It’s not that he tweets things or is careless with accuracy, or even that he sometimes flat out lies. (Stormy Daniels is the most obvious example of much of this.)
What’s missed here is that it actually is not about Trump. It’s about what he stands for. He is an avatar for the changes that traditional Americans have been agitating for over the past 20 years, changes that required a pugilist to go against the permanent state/media monolith. People love him not because of who he is but what he does. He fights for average Americans and refuses to cave in to the Washington mire.
It’s about the coalition that Trump — and his message and his fighting style — is creating within the Republican Party. That message is more isolationist and leery of “free” trade than the Reagan coalition of conservatives. Nor does it seem in the least concerned with the ballooning deficit. But it does pay attention to all those Americans who felt like they had no voice in the country. With Trump, they have a voice.
And, contrary to normative thinking, the Republican Party is becoming more black and brown. This last part is the really difficult one for the isolated, left-of-center dominated commentariat to grasp. But it seems to be real. There have been numerous mainstream polls now showing that Trump’s approval rating among blacks is north of 30 percent.
That is astonishing. Even if only a portion of those translate into votes, that upends the electoral math. But more importantly, it upends cultural thinking in this new realignment and actually could lay the groundwork for better race relations, something the Democratic Party must fight viciously against in hopes of maintaining their grip on the black vote in particular.
Lastly, Trump’s rallies continue to mystify the talking heads. They are not just dwarfing anything in modern history, but the devotion is truly awesome and represents the feelings of those who see him as their voice. But the devotion is not to Trump only, but also to what he is representing. For the New Jersey rally, people were lining up 29 hours ahead of the doors opening. Thousands camped out overnight in freezing temperatures for the rally the following night. Not even Barack Obama at his peak saw that.
That’s not just Trump appeal. They are feeling part of something bigger than themselves — people who for a long time have felt ignored, marginalized and even spit upon by the culture leaders. They want to see and support the man who is fighting for them. That is who they see and love.
The breakdown at his rallies shows the realignment sharply. The recent New Jersey data is reflective of this striking shift: 92,841 individual sign-ups requesting 158,632 tickets. That’s just an enormous depth of support in a deep blue state. Of the 73,482 voters identified, 10.4% did not vote in 2016. And here’s the bell-ringer: 26.3% were registered Democrats. More than a quarter of those requesting tickets were Democrats.
This is the picture of a political realignment happening in real time.
There are very deep cultural undercurrents beneath this as well. For many years liberal/leftist culture has been caught up in some *insane* propositions.
1) What do people who have a religious, even cultish frame of mind do when they become atheists? After they reject God, they become socialist/communist, but that is not enough. They no longer have the sacraments of faith, so they take the seven deadly sins as their new sacraments. That is, they do not just reject God, but they want to curse Him and His followers.
Pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth now each have their own bloc within the Democrat party, though there is considerable overlap.
2) Conversely, conservatism has been under the yoke of liberal/leftist oppression for so long that they can no longer tolerate this abuse.
Laws and rules based in unfairness, rejecting science and reason and efficiency, the unwillingness to plan for the future or even to ponder their own bad ideas *before* making new laws and rules, and are utterly indifferent to the harm caused. And yet more than willing to curse at and damn anyone with a different point of view.
And the waste, the incredible waste.
Finally, President Trump has begun a plan to get the government back in order, even if the Attorney General still hasn’t prosecuted any of the major criminals in government.
“too much of the party base now is willing to drag it to the radical left, as we witness with former Communist and current Socialist Bernie Sanders surging into the lead for the nomination”
Understand that the nomination tends to go to the most extreme candidate (if there is one), because most candidates hover close to the most popular position but fragment that vote; the most extreme & quasi-viable candidate actually gets the largest vote count, winning the nomination.
That’s how we ended up with Trump: most of the candidates were acceptable to most voters, but the numerous candidates split the “moderate conservative” vote - letting the “extreme” but attractive Trump take them out systematically.
Fortunately who we got was good, but even then the popular vote count didn’t favor him - the ground team was able to identify which precincts to sway, a very tough/smart process not easily replicated into an Electoral win. The same process is going to give Democrats Bernie - causing a LOT of left-leaning votes to either vote Trump or stay home, most likely not pulling off the same EC win.
The big picture with Donald Trump is not that he is vulgar or mean to people or has a history of cheating on his wives. It’s not that he tweets things or is careless with accuracy, or even that he sometimes flat out lies.
Author Rod Thomson may have a valid point, but he makes it a tough read.
George Wallace was a Democrat. Lester Maddox was a Democrat. Bull Conner was a Democrat. Bull Conner's dogs were Democrats. The man who shot Martin Luther King was a Democrat. The men who beat Emmett Till to death were Democrats. The men who firebombed the church and killed those little girls were Democrats. Every Ku Kluxer who ever soiled a sheet was a Democrat.
Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, freed the slaves. Earl Warren, a Republican, ended separate but equal. Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican, sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock to enforce school desegregation. Martin Luther King was a Republican at the time of the Freedom Marches. And at every critical point, it was the Democrats standing in the deepest pits of Hell fighting against black emancipation. And today, it's still Democrats who want to keep black people chained in dependency and keep black children trapped in terrible schools.
Against all of this, today's Democrats like to say that the parties "changed places." By this they mean that "everybody back in the bad old days who was doing bad things may have called themselves Democrats, but they were really Republicans but hadn't figured it out yet. And all the Republicans back then were really Democrats but just hadn't figured it out yet. So we can put on our advanced Ivy League designed super duper critical theory hats and attribute everything that Democrats did in the bad old days to the Republicans today. And we can take everything good that Republicans did back then to the Democrats today. And on this basis, we can say that Democrats are always good and Republicans are always bad. The liars want the idiots to vote on this basis.
This is so mind-numbingly stupid that only intellectually corrupt college professors and "journalists" could take it seriously. But it is the Democrats' basic cover story. The truth is that the Democrats' history on race is odious. It is the sort of thing that, if you stepped in it outside, would force you to scrub the soles of your shoes very carefully, and remove them when you came indoors. For a black person to identify with the Democratic Party on race is like a Jewish person studying Holocaust and identifying with the Nazis, because they were misunderstood.
If I were running for political office, I'd go into every black neighborhood, church and community organization with some variant of that speech and pound it constantly. I'd say that what Democrats have done to the black community is criminal. I would be ashamed to be a Democrat and I thank God every day that I am not. And I'd end with, "so what's your excuse?
What are these sign-ups and ticket requests? Are the sign-ups new voter registrations? Why are the sign-ups requesting more than one ticket per person? What ticket?
To get into the Trump rally!.........................
Good article, Rod. Well done.
You are right. What lies beyond Trump? The future is what the commies are looking at and have always done so. The gop can’t see beyond the next voting cycle. That is how they fill their pockets.
The Democratic Party is clearly miles further left than it was during the Clinton Administration when Bill Clinton and Al Gore actively tried to pull it back toward the center, even then, almost 30 years ago.
I remember seeing something about that in a documentary entitled, "Things That Have Never Happened".
Looks like someone wants to lay groundwork for Hillary to swoop in and "save" the Democratic Party in 2020.
Thanks!
There are some really good young conservatives in Congress who are up and coming...don’t know about governors. I’m wary of Tom Cotton who seems to be setting himself up for a run, but he is way too friendly with the likes of Hugh Hewitt for me to trust him. We also can be assured that some of the people Trump defeated will be back again in 2024.
Should be fun to watch.
The “old” Democrat Party depended on Incrementalism towards ther ultimate Goal of a Quasi Socialist America.
They sowed the Seeds by taking over all aspects of our Society including Education, Entertainment and mass Media News outlets.
The “new” Democrat Party is made of impatient Children who prefer to tear the Bandage off to expose what lies underneath, full blown Democratic Socialism that will doom the Republic.
Omitted from original post- By Rod Thomson
That 30% + of Black Voters that approve of Trump has the democrats in a panic. They know if that figure translates to republican votes in 2020, the democrats are D E A D !
Oxymoron examples of the times in which we live:
a Democrat American Patriot
a Christian Democrat
>Your description sounds like bhudha-judge, who has a man for his wife. American patriot, my eye. Christian, my eye.
“Thousands camped out overnight in freezing temperatures for the rally the following night. Not even Barack Obama at his peak saw that.
That’s not just Trump appeal. They are feeling part of something bigger than themselves — people who for a long time have felt ignored, marginalized and even spit upon by the culture leaders. They want to see and support the man who is fighting for them. That is who they see and love.”
“Trump may not be a godly man, but he’s God’s man.”
IOW, he is the (rather imperfect, to be sure) tool being used by God to change the direction of this country. Well, I haven’t had any 2-way conversations with God recently, and He hasn’t exactly let me in on the details of His plans, but in light of a lot of biblical history this makes sense. Cyrus the Great was a brutal, responsible for probably hundreds of thousands of deaths during the creation of the Persian Empire - but he destroyed Babylon and was one of God’s annointed (IOW, a messiah) because he encouraged the Jews under his rule to return to Israel and rebuild the Temple. Well, Donald Trump is a very different person than Cyrus, but he is doing a LOT of good things - the point being that God seems to pick a lot of very imperfect people to accomplish His tasks. Maybe that is why the people of this country are so attracted to him (and a certain element are utterly repulsed by him - people wanting unlimited abortion, who are shoving the trans and homosexual ideologies down our throats, and who have long been attacking religion in general).
Just a thought.
The President has brilliantly exposed them and forces them to show their true colors. They are the anti-American Party
If Bernie is the Nomineee more Democrats than you seem to be aware of will not vote at all versus hand the country to him. Granted the deeply blue states Democrats will have to face down handing the country over to a madman or crossing over and voting Trump ticket. After the SOTU I listened to the CSPAN callers and the crystallizing thing for them was Nancy tearing up the speech. They were incensed and vowed to not vote Democrat ever again, and that was not an isolated response. The Party they once voted for has left them and they are not happy with it at all. I used to live in Chicago and if you look at what this means a lot of folks may as they always seemed to do vote reflexively and take the ride to Hell with the party. But more than you realize are saying if Bernie is the Nominee, they will not vote or vote for Trump.
“The Democratic Party is clearly miles further left than it was during the Clinton Administration when Bill Clinton and Al Gore actively tried to pull it back toward the center, even then, almost 30 years ago.”
They were never as ‘centrist’ as they led people to believe, but when we tried to call that out back then - we were laughed at. They only appeared ‘centrist’ because their leaders at the time knew they couldn’t obtain power with just 30% of the country (if that) behind them.
Now those leaders are mostly gone, and the new ones either are not from that mindset, or just don’t give a damn. And Trump is helping mess them up too!
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