By Brandon Tatum
Tucson
Police officer Brandon Tatum [Photo from Facebook video]
It is time to walk away from the Democratic Party's
ideology.
The democratic philosophy is filled with hate and fear
mongering.
They have no message.
Actually, they never had a message.
They only use the government to control people and to
keep their People in power.
All of the fake politicians use their position to make
themselves rich and keep you weak and needing their philosophy.
I tell you this, I will never accept their lies again.
Period.
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The Left Can't Come To Grips With The Loss Of Power
Key Trump administration officials
have been confronted at restaurants. Rep. Maxine Waters urged protesters to
hound Trump officials at restaurants, gas stations or department stores.
Progressive pundits and the liberal
media almost daily think up new ways of characterizing President Trump as a
Nazi, fascist, tyrant or buffoon.
Celebrities openly fantasize about doing harm
to Trump.
What is behind the unprecedented
furor?
Just as Barack Obama was not a
centrist, neither is Trump. Obama promised to fundamentally transform the
United States. Trump pledged to do the same and more — but in the exact
opposite direction.
The Trump agenda enrages the left in
much the same manner that ObamaCare,
the Obama tax hikes, Obama's liberal Supreme Court picks and the Iran nuclear
deal goaded the right.
Yet the current progressive meltdown
is about more than just political differences. The outrage is mostly about
power — or rather, the utter and unexpected loss of it.
In 2009, Obama seemed to usher in a
progressive revolution for a generation.
Democrats controlled the House. They
had a supermajority in the Senate. Obama had a chance to ensure a liberal
majority on the Supreme Court for years.
Democrats had gained on Republicans
at the state and local levels. The media, universities, professional sports,
Hollywood and popular culture were all solidly left-wing.
A Republican had not won 51% of the
popular vote in a presidential election since George H.W. Bush's 1988 defeat of
Democrat Michael Dukakis. Before 2016, Republicans had lost the popular vote in
five of the previous six presidential elections.
And then visions of a generation of
progressive grandeur abruptly vanished.
Obama left behind a polarized
nation. Democrats lost both the House and the Senate. During Obama's tenure,
Democrats lost more than 1,000 seats at the state level.
Presumptive winner Hillary Clinton
blew the 2016 presidential election.
Foolishly, Clinton tried to ensure a
landslide victory by wasting precious campaign time in unwinnable red states
such as Arizona and Georgia.
Meanwhile, she too often neglected winnable purple
states such as Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all of
which Obama had won in 2008 and 2012. Clinton apparently forgot that the
Electoral College, not the popular vote, elects a president.
After his election, President Trump
did not implode as predicted. By following the Obama precedent of relying on
executive orders, Trump began recalibrating everything from immigration
enforcement to energy development.
Abroad, Trump did what no other
Republican president would have dared, bombing ISIS into submission, canceling
the Iran deal, seeking to denuclearize North Korea, pulling out of the Paris
climate accord, and moving the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem.
The U.S. economy took off with
new tax cuts and deregulation. Radical improvement in unemployment, economic growth,
and oil and natural gas production created new consumer and business
confidence.
Despite his frequent crudeness,
Trump is inching toward a 50% approval rating in a few polls. That has only
made an impotent opposition grow even more furious — both at the other half of
the country for supporting Trump, and at a buoyant Trump himself for baiting
and ridiculing progressives in the fashion of no prior president.
Worse still, much of the loss of
progressive power was at least partly self-inflicted.
Former Democratic Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid foolishly dropped the number of votes needed to overcome a
filibuster for executive appointments and most judicial nominations in 2013.
That blunder ensured Republicans the chance to remake the Supreme Court when
they took over the Senate in 2014.
Obama chose not to try to win over
his opposition, but to alienate it by veering hard left in his second term.
Hillary Clinton foolishly got herself into a number of personal scandals that
embarrassed her party and helped lead to her defeat.
In reaction to the sudden loss of
political power, Democrats would have been wise to run to the center, as did
Bill Clinton, who all but ended the era of the Reagan Republicans.
They could have dropped their
obsession with identity politics and instead attempted to win over blue-collar
voters with more inclusive class appeals rather than racial appeals.
Instead, Democrats have endlessly
replayed the 2016 election. In Groundhog Day fashion, Hillary Clinton
repeatedly offered tired excuses for her loss.
To progressives, Trump became not an
opponent to beaten with a better agenda, but an evil to be destroyed. Moderate
Democrats were written off as dense; left-wing fringe elements were praised as
clever.
Voters in 2016 bristled at
redistribution, open borders, bigger government and higher taxes, but
progressives are now promising those voters even more of what they didn't want.
Furious over the sudden and
unexpected loss of power, enraged progressives have so far done almost everything
to lose even more of it.
And that paradox only leads to more
furor.
Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover
Institution, Stanford University, and the author of the soon-to-be released
"The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and
Won," to appear in October from Basic Books.
