Posted on 01/01/2020 7:25:54 AM PST by Kaslin
As the economic boom that has defined the first four years of the Trump presidency continues, the likelihood increases that the Left will face four more years in what to them is the nether world of a Trump presidency. As this realization grows in the minds of the Left, so too does the already virulent anger that has characterized the movement since Noon on January 20, 2017.
It has been obvious to even the most casual observer that Democrats still have not recovered from Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016. The Left never has accepted the fact that Trump ran a better campaign than Hillary three years ago, or that his message was more in tune with voters than was that of his opponent. The arrogance and sanctimony that ever since has characterized the Democrat Party and its adherents, appears certain now to be the rules by which the Left will conduct itself in the months leading to the November election.
In some instances, this worldview has given rise to child-like tantrums; like that of former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams who steadfastly has refused for more than a year to concede losing to Republican Brian Kemp. The conspiratorial-based movement she launched in the wake of her November 2018 defeat, has found continuing and fawning support from national Democrat leaders like Joe Biden, and significant financial benefits from benefactors like George Soros.
Before Trump even took his oath of office, Democrats were plotting revenge. The use of dirty tricks by which Democrats have obstructed the Trump Administration has been unprecedented in both scale and aggressiveness. From using unelected, leftist federal judges to block the White House’s domestic agenda through the use of improper, nationwide injunctions, to the repulsive treatment of Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, no trick or ploy is a bridge too far for Democrats when it comes to opposing Trump.
This is why the “impeachment” of Trump fell so flat. Outside partisan Democrat confines, the public saw it for what it really was -- not a serious decision made after a deliberative and constitutionally based process, but fulfillment of a partisan promise made by Democrats the day after Trump was elected. Impeachment by majority vote of the House was a foregone conclusion; simply another escalation of increasingly bitter behavior directed at the President by people who refused to accept him as the duly elected leader of the nation.
As Trump edges closer to another electoral victory later this year, things are only going to get worse; perhaps much worse.
When the impeachment gambit officially runs its course and fails in the Senate, Democrats will turn to other weapons: more lawsuits in federal and state courts, and abuse of the legislative, oversight and appropriations powers they still possess through majority control of the House. Their goal will be to slow or grind the administration to a halt in whatever way they can, while still attacking Trump and his supporters with subpoenas, inquiries, and threats. It will be a no-holds-barred opposition with a vengeance.
But it is more than the halls of Congress in which the danger of Leftist instability is increasing. Over the last few years, the country has witnessed an escalation of force and intimidation from leftist political groups. One need only look to the violence of ANTIFA, or the recent street-clogging antics of Extinction Rebellion, to see how desperate they truly are. As Republicans continue to find substantive success through the president’s policies and judicial nominations, and as leftist groups fail to gain traction in the public arena, they will become increasingly frustrated, radical, and likely violent.
The hostility seen in disgruntled child activists like Greta Thunberg and the Parkland High School activists, who scowl and seethe whenever offered media opportunities, is the same anger that fuels the entire Left right now. The tools of choice to which they increasingly turn are shouting, media manipulation and violence to wrest power from those who have been elected to the offices they covet.
Perhaps another stunning defeat in 2020 will be the wakeup call the Democrats and their leftist allies need to spark a more reasonable strategy change. Unfortunately, with recent history as our guide, a far more likely scenario is more excuses, finger-pointing, and conspiracy theories to justify their growing resentment of the democratic processes – a process they used to favor but which they now deride because it provided a win for a president they hate.
Let us not count our chickens before they are hatched. The bottom line is that thanks to our lovely system of “higher” education, there are a mass of people out there that would vote for a dead cat if it were on the ballot.
We have a monumental task before us to get Trump re-elected.
Trump foiled their plot for complete communist takeover of the USA....an expensive plan that has been in the making for a long, long time. They’ll never get over it....too bad....for them.
Trump has literally pulled the mask off their face for all the world to see. It’s evil, godless and communist....that’s what the soccer moms all across the fruited plain voted for in the last election.
Agreed. Any one who thinks 2020 is a done deal for Trump and the (stupid) pubbies is an idiot.
Not to mention thinking it's in the bag is just the way the dems would want it - make the pubbies think they've won so they stay home and creating a dire situation so their base doesn't.
The election is irrelevant. Who on our side will simply let them take the country where they wish just because they won an election. Why should our actions be any different than theirs? Sure, we don’t own the Deep State so we’ll get no help from that quarter but we do own millions of rifles and craptons of ammo.
The left went insane trying to convince America Reagan would kill us all. 2 years later, we had 'Back to the Future', upbeat moods everywhere, and massive prosperity and the left was left shattered on the rocks. So it will be in 2022.
Which really is quite the accomplishment when one considers how unhinged the Left has been for a number of years, now. Just when I think that these Short Bus Loons couldn’t possibly get any more insane and irrational, they say: “Hold My Latte! (or Frappuccino, or whatever....)”.
We have some wins it’s true but on the social/cultural front we are losing and it’s not even close. Any company that dares to oppose the leftists is quickly assaulted and folds without a whimper.
This attack angle will start to unfold soon from the Left when a weak candidate emerges from the primary. This is why I feel they'll nominate Buttegeig as the sacrificial loser this go round. Warren will hold out for 2024.
So true. The Dems thought Hillary was a done deal.
Yes we have too many well trained young snowflakes out there but that isn’t the real problem, at least not the big one.
The big one is the vote farming and election fraud they have been practicing during the last couple of elections. Somehow it seems in California that I voted 3 times in the last election. (Somehow I am unable to remember that since I thought I mailed in 1 ballot each time I voted.) I got a nasty letter threatening arrest if I did it again and they pulled my registration so I had to register again.
I expect more dead people, illegals and multiple voters than ever before. The libs will say that it is only right and natural to do EVERYTHING in their power to win, and that will definitely include fraud!
It take a very unhinged mind to espouse leftist/ communistic ideals
The democommies have their Soros-funded fraud machine cranking up 24/7/365.
Until THAT is stopped - and stopped hard, by federal law enforcement - nothing is certain.
Approval for LGBTQ among the younger set has fallen from 50 percent to 30 percent in 2 years.
Now the part about companies folding is true.
No courage.
The ship is righting itself because dems went too far with the whole non binary gender crap.
If Trump wins again, I think the tide will turn more and more.
I think perhaps companies are slow to notice the change in the country. When the pendulum swings enough in our way, then perhaps they will show “courage”
Nothing’s a done deal until it’s a done deal. We must always think of ourselves as the underdogs. A point, or two behind. It’s the only way we have a chance to win.
“The Dems thought Hillary was a done deal.”
Not because they knew Hillary had a winning message and vision for our country, because they were stealing the election, first from Bernie, then from Trump.
God if that hag had succeeded!
The fact that they all still walk free after what they attempted in 2016 ought to scare the hell out of everyone.
Lmao, every time Trump tweets they become more and more unhinged. GG, President Trump, 4 more years of driving the libtard progressives and RINO into a mudhole, yo.
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