Posted on 07/23/2018 9:12:50 AM PDT by Hojczyk
With radicals preparing drum head trials for Trump, his supporters, the rich, and just about anyone who disagrees with them, Rep. Ryan might want to rethink his desire to be "rich."
These moderates appear to be the only Democrats who realize the danger the party is in:
But some elected officials in relatively conservative areas say progressives are clueless about what their agenda would mean for Democrats outside major cities and the coasts.
"We will be a permanent minority party in this country," said Iowa state Sen. Jeff Danielson, a firefighter who represents an area that saw one of the biggest swings from Barack Obama to Trump during the 2016 election.
Moderates said they feel they're being drowned out by louder voices on the left.
Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., a member of the House Democratic leadership who represents a district Trump won, invoked Richard Nixon's "silent majority."
"If you look throughout the heartland, there's a silent majority who just wants normalcy. Who wants to see that people are going out to Washington to fight for them in a civil way and get something done," she told reporters.
That's an extraordinary admission from Rep. Bustos. The radicals oppose "normalcy," which isn't a surprise to most of us, but is unusual coming from a Democratic member of Congress.
Realistically, the Democratic moderates have no better chance of impacting the direction of their party than GOP moderates have in influencing Republicans. This situation predates Donald Trump's presidency, although the polarization has gotten worse in the last two years.
Former FBI director James Comey warns the Democrats not to "lose your minds" and embrace socialism. It is probably too late for that. The question now becomes, will socialism sell in the heartland?
At least some Democrats are convinced it won't.
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“You will be assimilated.”
Poll: Majority Say Dem Candidates ‘Out of Step’ With Most Americans’ Thinking
Free Beacon ^ | Jul 23, 2018 | Paul Crookston
Posted on 7/23/2018, 9:11:37 AM by 11th_VA
In 2016 plurality of respondents said Dems ‘generally mainstream’
A majority of respondents in a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll of registered voters said Democratic congressional candidates are out of step with most Americans.
Asked whether Democratic candidates’ approaches to the issues “are generally in the mainstream of most Americans’ thinking, or are generally out of step with most Americans’ thinking,” 56 percent said they are “out of step” and just one-third said they are “in the mainstream.” These figures are a marked swing from July 2016, when only 42 percent of respondents said Democratic congressional candidates were out of step and 48 percent said they were in the mainstream.
In the July 2016 poll, Republican candidates were seen as much less mainstream than Democrats, with 31 percent of respondents saying the Republicans were in the mainstream and 59 percent saying they were out of step. A slightly higher percentage of respondents in July 2018 see Republicans as mainstream (33 percent) and a slightly smaller percentage of them see Republicans as out of step (57 percent.)
That makes the current numbers nearly identical for both parties’ candidates.
The poll comes as the Democrats’ left wing has continued to grow in prominence, putting moderates and the party establishment on the defensive. Self-proclaimed democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez scored the upset of the year by knocking out incumbent and No. 4 Democrat in the House Joe Crowley in a New York congressional primary in June...
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The far left is powerful. They will dominate the Democrat party. The far left has taken control of public education and replaced it with public indoctrination. The media and Hollywood are all in for the far left.
These are the good old days, much more troubling times are ahead for this great country.
“If you look throughout the heartland, there’s a silent majority who just wants normalcy. Who wants to see that people are going out to Washington to fight for them in a civil way and get something done,” she told reporters.”
The silent majority DON’T want you to “get something done”.
Leave people alone.
Is this it? :
“Moderate” my a$$.
In the words of Rush, “It’s just very difficult to beat Santa Claus.”....................
The Corporatists and Globalists won with Hillary and they don’t want to lose in 2020. They already lost when Trump won the GOP nomination in 2016.
This can’t happen again in the other “Uniparty”.
“If you look throughout the heartland, there’s a silent majority who just wants normalcy. “
Those aren’t democrats Ms. Busty.
Comey told us all to vote Democrat, but now urges Democrats not to go so far left?? What the heck??
Extent things:
Moderates are that group standing over there to the left of Stalin.
“Marxist Dems meet to save party from the Stalinists”
Anyone “normal” left that party years ago.
May they fail miserably!!
These “moderate” Democrats are decades too late to save their party. Starting with McGovern in 1972 the party has lurched constantly leftward. Socialists and Marxists have long been welcome in the Democrat tent and now have nearly taken over. Socialism will not play well in middle America
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