Counselor706
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SourceIn truth, Tuesday’s red wave, which washed away Democrats’ margins and swept Republicans into a multitude of offices right down to Sticksville dog catcher, argues not for but against left-wing overreach, both on spending and on cultural issues. Voters want reasonable policies, not extremism written by socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and embraced by the bumbler in chief.
One must be careful what one wishes for, so it’s hard to know whether to lament or welcome the Left’s intransigent refusal to learn the obvious lessons of its electoral humiliation. In a well-functioning polity, we’d want Democrats to become sensible and therefore more electable. But we’ve already seen, in Biden, that the mask of reasonableness is likely to be dishonest camouflage for an extreme agenda.
So, it’s easier to celebrate the Left’s uneducable insistence on an ever-more vigorous pursuit of policies that brought them defeat. Responding to voter repudiation by doubling down on their left-wingery makes them less electable, and thus makes Republican victory in 2022 and 2024 more likely. Better government and more effective policymaking is, ironically, therefore made more likely by the Left’s purblind determination to be more militantly extreme.
For it is likely to be, and should be, only a start. It can be the beginning of a national reclamation in which voters reject ideological extremism and profligate spending, and restore order to government.