Dem Hate Politics Will Cost Them a Second Election

Nice article, thanks for posting. It isn't anything we haven't noticed here on FR, or, for that matter, practically everyone who isn't a dyed-in-the-wool proggie hasn't. These insist that Make America Great Again is a profoundly retrograde slogan, which they counter with the still more retrograde "Hate Trump". The only one moving forward is the guy in the Oval Office.

In ’16, the media made the unwise decision to ignore everything except the big blue urban and suburban bubble.

Economics rule here too - that's where the donor money is. And it also explains a sudden passion for Democracy and abolishing the Electoral College. Why let the unwashed and unbelieving vote at all? The problem is, of course, that we sort of insist on it and don't really want our entire lives run by self-appointed Democrat experts.

That's another aspect of the same phenomenon. The Democrats have, as they have turned Left, turned insufferably totalitarian, and when you do that it's impossible to disguise yourself as harmless toward people who might otherwise not really care much if you're in office. Bill Clinton was one such - a "populist" more because he didn't threaten anyone than because of his policies, which did. 0bama pretended to be one in '08 but the mask fell off very shortly in the form of 0bamacare, and his administration took on a rather malevolent triumphalism that persists in the party today, and is one reason for the outrage that the Deplorables could have ousted them. They're better people, they have a right to rule. Not so fast.

One needn't be a John Kerry toting around a dead duck or two to appeal to a demographic of which one is not a member. A billionaire real estate developer from New York City getting the working class vote proved that. One won't get it by threatening them. One especially won't get it through a 24/7 torrent of disdain, contempt, and condescension that comes to them through their television sets from people who, in their thousand-dollar suits and hairstyles, are indistinguishable from the urban elite clutching the dead ducks. The media aren't Us anymore and are proud of it, convinced that their influence is waning because we aren't smart enough, not because they aren't. That would be a hard lesson to learn if any of them were troubling to learn it.

Hence the politics of hatred. They don't hate Trump, they hate us.

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