Posted on 11/04/2020 8:50:57 AM PST by Kaslin
The morning newsletters say it all. Whether President Trump manages to win, Beltway denizens are waking up to the inescapable reality of their own ignorance. Like 2016, journalists and operatives are flirting with the prospect of introspection, and in almost exactly the same terms.
Here’s Politico Playbook:
TUESDAY WAS AN ABJECT DISASTER for Democrats in Washington. To imagine the amount of soul searching and explaining the party will have to do after Tuesday is absolutely dizzying. The infighting will be bloody — as it should be. We fielded text after text from Hill Democrats Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning with existential questions about their leadership and the direction of their party.
Here’s Axios AM:
Recognize that we paid way too much attention to polls, which have even more limitations than we realized. It was a terrible night for polling. They were wrong, almost all of them, almost everywhere. Save yourself time and stop watching them so closely in elections… Understand that Trump’s appeal was broader than believed. He actually found new voters. Many of them were the working-class, white males who are the base of his base. But there were more of them.
It’s both amusing and infuriating to ingest this second round of soul searches given that Democrats and the corporate media spent four years breathlessly chasing the conspiracy of Russian collusion, pursuing a thin impeachment case, bizarrely arguing the legacy outlets’ alleged commitment to neutrality amounted to pro-Trump bias, burrowing deeper into cancel culture, and generally sprinting in the wrong direction.
If only the host of Celebrity Apprentice had defeated the former secretary of state in a presidential election and shocked the political class out of its bubble! Why is former Sen. Claire McCaskill spending the morning of Nov. 4 on “Morning Joe” calling for Democrats to take a “gut check” four years later?
Now, as Tucker Carlson emphasized before Election Day, emotional, eye-popping crowds of Trump fans still rallied around him in numbers that virtually blurred the horizon in places like Butler, Pennsylvania. A lot of decent Americans love Donald Trump. A lot of decent Americans prefer him to the Democratic Party. The latter is an incredible indictment of the left.
What’s worse is that Democrats and journalists utterly blew their opportunity to spend the last four years “soul searching.” They convinced themselves the “deplorables” diagnosis was apt, that Republicans were committing political suicide on a daily basis by backing the president. Meanwhile, he seems to have been making gains, to a degree we don’t yet know, with Hispanic voters. He doesn’t appear to have been poison in down ballot races, particularly in the Senate. He also managed to run a tight race despite a pandemic, a pandemic economy, the entire media and cultural machine mobilizing in opposition to him, and meddling from Silicon Valley.
Those people in Butler aren’t going anywhere, even if Trump loses. The political class should have given them a fair hearing in 2016. They said they would. They did the opposite. They will continue to do the opposite. It is failing them and failing the country dramatically.
The question for everyone across the ideological spectrum who understands that— from Glenn Greenwald to Tucker—is how to move forward in spite of the ruling class. Our daily lives are being uprooted by rapid advances in technology, throttling us into the future so quickly that we barely feel the motion.
It’s changing our brains, changing our politics, and confounding our insulated experts. That’s the context in which we should evaluate the GOP’s over-performance relative to elite expectations since those elites cannot be relied upon to evaluate anything with clarity. They are overrun by illiberal cultural leftists who’ve intimidated their Boomer leaders into submission, or assumed leadership ranks themselves. The only option is to forge a new path.
The gop-e gets their 30 pieces of silver when they throw the race.
I have not seen any human emotion for Biden in my part of Florida.
Trump flags fly from pickup trucks and intersections had Trump rallies on weekends.
Biden is just an angry version of Leonid Breznev.
TUESDAY WAS AN ABJECT DISASTER for Democrats in Washington. “
Yeah ok.
If take that “disaster” right now.
Bull spit. They won, that’s all that matters. They have power and you don’t.
I followed the news of the election results between stops along the route, posting occasionally here on FR when the time allowed. It was unfortunate that I couldn't stop even once for a few moments and realize that I was living through an epic historical and spiritual event in time ... and in a place where the dark hills and the trees and even the highway pavement itself practically pulse with the heartbeat of American history and Trump's great nationalist movement.
I tried to explain this remarkable political movement as best I could on a phone call with a Canadian friend of mine who follows U.S. politics and is still baffled at what has unfolded here over the last five years. He has openly acknowledged that he'd be a Democrat if he was a U.S. citizen. It's a cultural thing brought about by the low expectations and managed lives they live in a European-style socialist system. I don't hold it against him.
I finally managed to capture the essence of our political scene as best as I could -- in a way he would understand. I told him to think of the classic western movie Shane as an allegory for this drama.
Think of a moderate American voter as Marian Starrett, the mother in the movie. She's an ordinary woman who operates the way women always do -- fearful, protective, and bothered by the roughness of the world in which her family now lives. She wishes there were no guns in the valley. If she had her way, the family probably never would have come west and settled out there in the shadow of the majestic mountains, living a rough life on a small farm. If she were alive today she'd be wearing a mask around all day and fretting over her school's Zoom classes for her son.
Joe Starrett, the man of the house, could be your typical conservative voter -- the most conservative wing of the Republican Party; humble and self-made, and willing to take tremendous risks and settle for less material wealth in order to live as a free man. He works hard, lives by a code, and is armed out of necessity to protect himself and his family. He doesn't let anyone push him around and is willing to stand up for what is right even if he knows it will spell his demise.
The Ryker gang represents everything that is awful and wrong with the world these people live in. They are the political, academic and media establishment of the U.S., and their goal is to run roughshod over this family and their fellow settlers and take away from them everything they've all worked for. The Rykers are rotten to the core, use the legal system (or lack thereof) to get what they want, and prey on the fear of the women and limited firepower of the men. The settlers are decent, hard-working people of integrity, and they have the law and basic human principles on their side by any objective measure ... but it's only a matter of time before they are overwhelmed by the Rykers and swept off their land in that beautiful place where they live.
My friend was still baffled over this whole comparison, but I explained why this all suddenly made sense to me:
Donald Trump is Shane.
I think the 2020 election is just getting started, folks.
Objection, assuming facts not in evidence.
The dems and the deep state have no soul to search and are not accountable to explain anything to anybody.
This is interesting only if we understand that the US has problems that elections cannot answer.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.