[MrB]

God has set up His creation such that the ideas of leftism will always fail.

[Popman]

The left doesn’t “govern”...they “rule”....

The only successful way they “rule” is at the end of a gun pointed at your head....

[Revel]

The republican leadership still rules from the left.

[SMARTY]

A government consistently monopolized by one party (any party) will serve NO ONE.

There are plenty of examples around to prove that.

It’s the reason we need the two party system and functioning properly WITH unbiased media scrutiny.

It would keep everyone honest. But I guess that is a silly old fashioned idea.

[Interesting Times]

A thoughtful and intelligent article, with little or no cheerleading. Thanks for posting.

[uncbob]

It demonstrates that nobody can govern America from the left, because the country doesn’t want to go there, and because whenever it has been tried in recent decades, it has failed. While the elites of the media, academia and the managerial class can’t seem to absorb this fundamental reality, the American people know it.

Just how was Obama governing his first 4 years
He got re-elected

[joshua c]

We need a casualty list. A list of all the Democrats who lost elections because of Obamacare. I am sure it is pretty long.

List all the Democrat casualties and then ask Democrats if they want to join them by going along with Obama’s illegal amnesty.

Obama’s illegal amnesty is basically a suicide pact. Are the Democrats in or out?

[discostu]

You can’t govern America from either side, eventually the mushy middle always turns against who’s in charge. That’s why there are no permanent majorities. 8 years from now the GOP is going to get the same nut kick, just like they did 8 years ago, and 16 years from now it’ll be the Dems turn.

[Sam Gamgee]

I don't think it has anything to do with the public rejecting leftism. Because what is conservative and liberal has been redefined. McConnell is considered conservative by the masses. So is George Bush, even though he introduced TARP and over spent. To be a moderate conservative like Cruz gets you the label “fanatic”. The public is more than happy to embrace the degrees of leftism.

[arthurus]

The Left cannot govern but it can rule as it intends to do.

[Billthedrill]

I think it depends on how far left (or right, for that matter). At the time we were all pretty upset over the Clinton syndicate's governing from the left but 0bama - and especially his team - swerved that over by an order of magnitude. To cite one example, 0bamacare - here was a bill subsuming one-sixth of the largest national economy in the world, passed by a combination of brute force and legal chicanery without being read and without a single opposite-party vote - THAT is an example of governing from too far to the left. An astute politician would have made major olive branch offerings afterward. 0bama did the opposite - it was an in-your-face triumphalism by him and his media followers that poisoned the well so badly it still stinks.

You don't do that without consequences and it was far from the only example. The outrageously illegal usage of the IRS to suppress opposing political organizations, the vigorous abuse of the NSA to spy on them, the deliberate abuses at the Department of Justice to turn that organization into a political weapon; these actions do not come without consequences either. When governing from the left reaches this stage it isn't government at all, but something more approaching tyranny. What the 0bama administrations would have looked like in the absence of this abusive behavior is difficult to imagine, but they would likely have been more successful in meeting the country's interests.

Governing is not ruling. Representing is not leading. And forcing a series of political actions in the belief that they are historically inevitable is not accommodationist, cooperative, bipartisan, or any of those other pleasant labels that have been misapplied like lipstick on a pig.