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The Descent into Progressive Madness
National Review ^ | September 18, 2018 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 09/19/2018 1:44:16 PM PDT by Twotone

The progressive street is leading fossilized Democrats into a sort of collective madness.

The dinosaurs of the party desperately seek relevance by sounding crazier than the new unhinged base that disrupts Senate hearings, loudly pronounces a new socialist future, and envisions octogenarian Maxine Waters as more the future of the party than is septuagenarian Nancy Pelosi. The spectacle is right out of Euripides’s Bacchae, as the creaky old guard of the polis, Tiresias and Cadmus, dress up in trendy, ridiculous ritual costumes to stumble along after the racing and frenzied young maenads in their lethal courtship of suicidal Dionysian madness.

Six-term senator Dianne Feinstein is running against a far more radical Democrat, Kevin de León, in California’s general election. (He added the accent and the “de” to his name in midlife, thereby enhancing his ethnic authenticity.) Feinstein’s current Senate colleague, the junior senator Kamala Harris, has been interrupting, sermonizing, and shouting at the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings in a fashion that generates the media buzz and attention usually reserved for supposedly sober and judicious old hands like Feinstein.

Apparently in reaction to these youthful, far-left challenges, a frustrated Feinstein has decided to descend even lower than Harris, who once, after all, joked about killing Trump. (When asked what she would do if stuck in an elevator with Trump and Pence, Harris answered, “Does one of us have to come out alive?”) Feinstein is now saying that she has had the new “evidence” about Judge Brett Kavanaugh in her possession for at least six weeks. And now, at the eleventh hour after the confirmation hearings are over, it could gin up enough hysteria, without formal refutation, to sink his nomination to the Supreme Court.

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KEYWORDS: animalfarm; madness; vdh
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To: Twotone
suicidal Dionysian madness.

Gotta love VDH. This could be the new slogan for the Demolish-crat Party.

21 posted on 09/19/2018 3:21:01 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: txrefugee
Jason Chaffetz said in a Fox interview yesterday that Sessions directly said to him that he couldn't indict someone “too close to Hillary.” That ought to secure Sessions’ firing. No more excuses.
22 posted on 09/19/2018 3:40:55 PM PDT by Missouri gal
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To: Twotone

TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).

5.56mm


23 posted on 09/19/2018 3:43:11 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: txrefugee

What is an AG? We get to have one? What qualifications does he need, or is it all cocktail parties and balloons?


24 posted on 09/19/2018 4:52:02 PM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: Twotone

As I’ve written here before:

The Insanes were created and nurtured to maturity by the old line ‘liberal’ Democrats. They then welcomed the Insanes into their party, only to watch in horror as they violently seized the helm, then relegated the old line Dems to the status of dusty back room mannequins.

We’re quickly nearing the point when the Insanes will toss the dusty old mannequins into the dumpster, and strike the match.


25 posted on 09/19/2018 4:58:38 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Richard Axtell
Hillary has already broken a multitude of federal laws...

If Hillary fells a law in the forest, and the MSM doesn't report it, did it really happen?

26 posted on 09/19/2018 5:03:00 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: KyCats
...words simply cannot convey the level of insanity we are living through. It’s all beyond belief at this point. No basis in reality at all.

Yes it is, and the more troubling thing, is that the left continues to ratchet this country closer and closer to violent conflict every day.

There is no such thing as compromise, or thoughtful moderation on their side. There is only WAR. Unrelenting, unmitigated, and ever increasing hostility and violence against anyone who dares to oppose their alien agenda.

Things never calm or get better in our relations with these people. They only get worse and worse, as they push the envelope of sanity and basic human decency, further and further out the window.

Is it only our side that clearly sees where this is leading? Are the left so cocksure of themselves, that they think we'll simply roll over and surrender to them and their radical agenda for America without a fight? Can they truly be so blinded by sheer bullheadedness, that they think no blood will ever be spilled over this?

Of course the answer is Yes, to all of the above - which is frightening, considering the fact that when the Normals are finally sparked to action, it will signal the left's utter demise in this country.

27 posted on 09/19/2018 5:26:36 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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