Salon.com: There will be no 2018 “blue wave,” no Dem majority & no impeachment

[james_1957]

An interesting article written by Andrew O'Hehir who is executive editor of Salon.

Wake up, liberals: There will be no 2018 “blue wave,” no Democratic majority and no impeachment.

Lessons of Montana: There's no quick fix for Trump or our damaged democracy — and the Democrats still look hopeless.

We received a message from the future this week, directed to the outraged liberals of the so-called anti-Trump resistance. It was delivered by an unlikely intermediary, Greg Gianforte, the Republican who won a special election on Thursday and will soon take his seat in Congress as Montana’s lone representative. (Here’s a trivia question to distract you from the doom and gloom: Without recourse to Google, how many other states can you name that have only one House seat?)

If you found yourself ashen-faced and dismayed on Friday morning, because you really believed the Montana election would bring a sign of hope and mark the beginning of a return to sanity in American politics, then the message encoded in Gianforte’s victory is for you. It goes something like this:

Get over Montana already — and stop trolling yourself with that stupid special election in Georgia too. They don’t mean anything, and anyway — that dude Jon Ossoff? He’s about the lamest excuse for a national progressive hero in the entire history of Democratic Party milquetoast triangulation. Oh, and since we’re on the subject: Forget about the “blue wave” of 2018. Forget about the Democratic majority of 2019. Forget about the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Have you even been paying attention? Because none of that stuff is happening and it’s all a massive distraction.

http://www.salon.com/2017/05/27/wak...ve-no-democratic-majority-and-no-impeachment/

 

[Rightguide]

Perez will make sure the Democrats are marginalized into the little dog piles on Main Street they are.

 

[CCorteeze]

This certainly seems true right now, but a lot could happen between now and November 2018.

 

[HisArpy]

I actually think what we're seeing is an emerging party. Much like the Democratic party emerged from the Whig party in the 1790's, the Independent Party is emerging from the ashes of the Democratic Party.

And, probably just like the times back then, turmoil and denial are king. 2018 and 2020 will show us more but I think, unless there's some kind of game changer, the Democratic Party is dead. The question is what will the Independent Party look like politically. Democrat under a different name? Socialist? Some new form of ideology as yet unnamed?

 

[Adre]

I actually think what we're seeing is an emerging party. Much like the Democratic party emerged from the Whig party in the 1790's, the Independent Party is emerging from the ashes of the Democratic Party.

And, probably just like the times back then, turmoil and denial are king. 2018 and 2020 will show us more but I think, unless there's some kind of game changer, the Democratic Party is dead. The question is what will the Independent Party look like politically. Democrat under a different name? Socialist? Some new form of ideology as yet unnamed?

Let's hope it looks like a moderate Republican Party, short on ideology, religion, and bigotry, long on practical solutions, compromise, and good humor.

 

[talldarkfellow]

Let's hope it looks like a moderate Republican Party, short on ideology, religion, and bigotry, long on practical solutions, compromise, and good humor.

Why would anybody vote for the party of a candidate that's "short on ideology"? That means you're voting for someone who doesn't have any expressed beliefs as to what government should or shouldn't do, which is the definition of political ideology. As in "ideas"?

When people say nonsense like that, what they really mean is "the party should ignore all those millions of other people and support my agenda, cause my opinions are facts, and everybody else's facts are opnions".

 

[Adre]

Why would anybody vote for the party of a candidate that's "short on ideology"? That means you're voting for someone who doesn't have any expressed beliefs as to what government should or shouldn't do, which is the definition of political ideology. As in "ideas"?

When people say nonsense like that, what they really mean is "the party should ignore all those millions of other people and support my agenda, cause my opinions are facts, and everybody else's facts are opnions".

STFU, moron.

 

[Conager]

Let's hope it looks like a moderate Republican Party, short on ideology, religion, and bigotry, long on practical solutions, compromise, and good humor.

You could always start the RINO party. All the flavor of Democrats, less filling.

It would be just as white, filled with lawyers, and rich as the actual Democrat Party but without those few gerrymandered all black and all Hispanic districts that give the Democrats cover for their 150 year history of oppressing people of color.

 

[Adre]

You could always start the RINO party. All the flavor of Democrats, less filling.

It would be just as white, filled with lawyers, and rich as the actual Democrat Party but without those few gerrymandered all black and all Hispanic districts that give the Democrats cover for their 150 year history of oppressing people of color.

STFU, moron.

 

[Conager]

STFU,

moron.

Are we all supposed to sign our posts like ISH now?

Wondering,

Que

 

[Adre]

Are we all supposed to sign our posts like ISH now?

Wondering,

Que

That was funny the first forty times.

 

[water505]

The author of the article might soon be the victim of an unfortunate accident.