Democrats are becoming all they claim to hate

[james_1957]

It is clear now that Democrats learned all the worst lessons from the conduct of their political opponents over the course of the Obama presidency. With unchecked bitterness, Democrats have convinced themselves that the right did little more than obstruct, distract, and indulge their basest impulses for eight years. For this, they were rewarded with total control of all the levers of government in Washington. Thus, anticipating rewards, Democrats have embraced a policy of strategic incoherence with no grander objective than mollifying their base. In the process, they’ve become the very creatures they once claimed to oppose.

The Democratic rallying cry that Donald Trump has no right to the office he presently occupies is an argument that hardly merits much attention. It consists entirely of the contention that he didn’t really win states no Republican presidential candidate has won in almost 30 years—Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, namely—because Russian intervention into the election might have changed how voters intended to cast their ballots. That’s at least the most lucid of the conspiracy theories rattling around bleaker corners of the liberal hive.

This is an unfalsifiable claim, as are most conspiracy theories. It can neither be proven nor denied. Republicans who do not dispute FBI Director Jim Comey’s assertion that Russia did seek to alter the course of American political events with the aim of helping Donald Trump win the White House are not wrong to note that the chaos Moscow midwifed did not prevent Hillary Clinton from dedicating time and resources to the swing states she lost. To take the Russia conspiracy theory seriously is, however, to miss the point. “Birthers” had no use for evidence to support their contention that Barack Obama was an illegitimate president, and the notion that Donald Trump’s resounding Electoral College victory simply doesn’t count is meant to be felt, not scrutinized.

So here we are, with Republicans becoming victims of their own success and Democrats prisoners of their failures. It seems, however, that Democrats have caricatured Republicans and are now mimicking the cartoon of the GOP that exists in their minds. Democrats are convinced that they do not have to display moderation or even basic cogency to win back the power they lost in the Obama years, and they might be right. If they’re wrong, though, and if the tactically foolish sacrifices of authority and credibility they’re making today do not pay off, they’ll find themselves in an even more cynical and embittered place than they are in today. And with a more radicalized base nursing a sense of betrayal, the Democratic Party’s time in the wilderness may last a while.

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/...mocrats/democratic-party-lost-mind-mimic-gop/

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

"strategic incoherence"

lol​

 

[KingOrfeo]

. . . Democrats have convinced themselves that the right did little more than obstruct, distract, and indulge their basest impulses for eight years.

Well, the right did do that and little more for eight years.

 

[Hashtag47]

They're becoming uneducated trump supporters?

 

[Hashtag47]

Well, the right did do that and little more for eight years.

Reality makes connie cry.

 

[hashtag69]

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/...mocrats/democratic-party-lost-mind-mimic-gop/

Time to get a new routine, asshole.

 

[HisArpy]

Well, the right did do that and little more for eight years.

It's undeniable that the right did do all they could to slow down the leftist juggernaut during the Obama years.

Unfortunately, the left became smug and complacent and the voters escaped. Now it's time to blame the voters, and their elected representatives, for not following the program that kept the left in power.

All the histronics over Russia and Obstruction will show those stupid voters that they made a mistake. Just you wait, in 4 years all those voters will turn right around and elect Harry Reid as President. Cuz he don't tell lies like them conservatives do.

 

[KingOrfeo]

It's undeniable that the right did do all they could to slow down the leftist juggernaut during the Obama years.

Obama is no leftist.

 

[Rightguide]

Obama is no leftist.

STOP! This continued willful denial of truth is childish and stupid.

 

[KingOrfeo]

STOP! This continued willful denial of truth is childish and stupid.

Sanders is a leftist. Note the vast differences between his politics and Obama's -- and Hillary's.

 

[Rightguide]

Well, the right did do that and little more for eight years.

Yes, standing up for the law, the Constitution, and American values required full-time opposition to the subversive and illegal Democrat agenda.

 

[Rightguide]

Sanders is a leftist. Note the vast differences between his politics and Obama's -- and Hillary's.

Non-sequitur. There was a vast difference between Obama's pre-election politics and those of his presidency. He couldn't have possibly run on surrendering to the enemy, giving illegal ransom money to the Iranians, reestablishing the Taliban high command, attacking America's civil police forces, siding with rioters and looters, and refusing to enforce the immigration laws.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Yes, standing up for the law, the Constitution, and American values . . .

. . . is something about which RWs appear to know very little.

 

[Rightguide]

. . . is something about which RWs appear to know very little.

You, on the other hand, have demonstrated absolute ignorance of same.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Sanders is a leftist. Note the vast differences between his politics and Obama's -- and Hillary's.

Yes, standing up for the law, the Constitution, and American values required full-time opposition to the subversive and illegal Democrat agenda.

Actually, they both moved to his positions, Obama sooner, Hillary only when she felt threatened.

And since the Republicans were fighting "for" things on their agenda, they were rewarded by the voting public. Every time Obama vetoed them or did an end run around them he was sticking it to the voters, who noticed who was telling them that their jobs were valuable and at the same time understanding who was telling them, with glee, that he was going to take their jobs from them.

Currently the Democrats are fighting "against" things (mainly Trump) and that's not going to bring people back to their fold, it only agitates and motivates those who are going to vote for them no matter what in too few enclaves to cobble together an Electoral College advantage...

 

[BotanyBoy]

Obama is no leftist.

LOL....you lying to yourself again KO?

Sanders is a leftist. Note the vast differences between his politics and Obama's -- and Hillary's.

Different kinds of leftist.....still leftist, even the (R)'s are full of lefties.

Currently the Democrats are fighting "against" things (mainly Trump) and that's not going to bring people back to their fold, it only agitates and motivates those who are going to vote for them no matter what in too few enclaves to cobble together an Electoral College advantage...

That same confidence will hand (D)'s the keys again.

(R)'s wont get out and vote this next round because they think they have it in the bag and the worked up whiners will take it back.

I bet (R)'s get burnt in 2018, if they don't they will loose the WH in 2020.

 

[water505]

. . . is something about which RWs appear to know very little.

LMAO!!!

This from someone who is blindly loyal to his Party regardless of the facts. In his mind there is absolutely nothing any member of The Party could possibly do wrong.
He's a member of the Cult of True Believers. Everyone else is evil, stupid, racist, Islamophobic, homophobic, and anything else they can think of.

Anyone that easily led is downright dangerous.

 

[james_1957]

Reality makes connie cry.

They're becoming uneducated trump supporters?

Hey there, Rob.

I appreciate you taking a break from your secretarial job stuffing envelopes to stop by & say hello.

 

[james_1957]

Time to get a new routine, asshole.

Hey there, Boo.

I appreciate you taking time away from your fake "Turbo Tacks" business to stop by and say hello.

 

[Koalabeer]

Hey there, Rob.

I appreciate you taking a break from your secretarial job stuffing envelopes to stop by & say hello.

Time for a new routine, asshole.

 

[james_1957]

Time for a new routine, asshole.

Hey there, Boo.

I appreciate you taking time away from your fake "Turbo Tacks" business to stop by and say hello.

 

[phrodeau]

Non-sequitur. There was a vast difference between Obama's pre-election politics and those of his presidency. He couldn't have possibly run on surrendering to the enemy, giving illegal ransom money to the Iranians, reestablishing the Taliban high command, attacking America's civil police forces, siding with rioters and looters, and refusing to enforce the immigration laws.

Good thing none of those shitty things actually happened.

 

[Rightguide]

Hey there, Boo.

I appreciate you taking time away from your fake "Turbo Tacks" business to stop by and say hello.

His name is "Boo?" Does he where a white sheet?

 

[Luk]

Non-sequitur. There was a vast difference between Obama's pre-election politics and those of his presidency. He couldn't have possibly run on surrendering to the enemy, giving illegal ransom money to the Iranians, reestablishing the Taliban high command, attacking America's civil police forces, siding with rioters and looters, and refusing to enforce the immigration laws.

Did Reagan run on treason, selling weapons to our enemies and funnelling drugs into our inner city? Did Clinton run on blowjobs? Yet, 45 has already blown up his own platform and pulled the wool over you eyes.

 

[Rightguide]

Did Reagan run on treason, selling weapons to our enemies and funnelling drugs into our inner city? Did Clinton run on blowjobs? Yet, 45 has already blown up his own platform and pulled the wool over you eyes.

You should probably learn how to spell and talk.