Democrats Should Abandon Their Self-Destructive Fixations
By: Victor Davis Hanson
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
"Destroying democracy" -- the latest theme of the left -- can be defined in many different ways.
How about attempting to destroy constitutional, ancient, and hallowed institutions simply to suit short-term political gains?
So, who in 2020, and now once again, has boasted about packing the 156-year-old, nine-justice Supreme Court?
Who talks frequently about destroying the 187-year-old Senate filibuster--though only when they hold a Senate majority?
Who wants to bring in an insolvent left-wing Puerto Rico and redefine the 235-year-old District of Columbia -- by altering the Constitution -- as two new states solely to obtain four additional liberal senators?
Who is trying to destroy the constitutionally mandated 235-year Electoral College by circumventing it with the surrogate "The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact?"
Does destroying democracy also entail weaponizing federal bureaucracies, turning them into rogue partisan arms of a president?
So who ordered the CIA to concoct bogus charges of "collusion" to sabotage Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, the 2016-2017 transition, and the first 22 months of Trump's first term?
Who prompted a cabal of "51 former intelligence officials" to lie to the American people on the eve of the last debate of the 2020 election that the FBI-authenticated Hunter Biden laptop was instead the work of a "Russian intelligence operation?"
Who ordered the FBI to connive and partner with social media conglomerates to censor accurate news deemed unhelpful to the 2020 Biden campaign?
Who pulled off the greatest presidential coup in history by using surrogates in the shadows to run the cognitively debilitated Biden presidency, then by fiat canceled his reelection effort, and finally anointed as his replacement the new nominee Kamala Harris, who had never won a single primary delegate?
Who ordered FBI SWAT teams to invade the home of a former president because of a classification dispute over 102 files out of some 13,000 stored there?
Who tried to remove an ex-president and leader of his party from at least 25 state ballots to deprive millions of Americans of the opportunity to vote for or against him?
Who coordinated four local, state, and federal prosecutors to destroy a former and future president by charging him with fantasy crimes that were never before, and will never again be, lodged against anyone else?
Who appointed a federal prosecutor to go after the ex-president, who arranged for a high-ranking Justice Department official to step down to join a New York prosecutor's efforts to destroy an ex-president, and who met in the White House with a Georgia county prosecutor seeking to destroy an ex-president -- all on the same day -- a mere 72 hours after Trump announced his 2024 reelection bid?
Who but the current Democrats ever impeached a president twice?
Has any party ever tried an ex-president in the Senate when he was out of office and a mere private citizen?
When have there ever been two near-miss assassination attempts on a major party presidential candidate during a single presidential campaign?
Who destroyed the southern border and broke federal law to allow in, without criminal or health background audits, some 10-12 million illegal aliens?
Who created 600 "sanctuary jurisdictions" for the sole purpose of nullifying federal immigration law, in the eerie spirit of the renegade old Confederacy?
Who allowed tens of thousands of rioters, arsonists, and violent protestors over four months in 2020 to destroy over $2 billion in property, kill some 35 people, injure 1,500 police officers, and torch a federal courthouse, a police precinct, and a historic church -- all with de facto legal impunity?
How do the purported destroyers of democracy find themselves winning 60-70 percent approval on most of the key issues of our times, while the supposed saviors of democracy are on the losing side of popular opinion?
How does a president "destroy democracy" by his party winning the White House by both the popular and Electoral College vote, winning majorities in both the Senate and House by popular votes, and enjoying a 6-3 edge in the Supreme Court through judges appointed by popularly elected presidents?
So what is behind these absurd charges?
Three catalysts: one, the new anguished elitist Democratic Party alienated the middle classes through its Jacobin agenda and therefore lost the Congress, the presidency, and the Supreme Court, and now has no federal political power.
Two, the Democratic Party is polling at record lows and yet remains hellbent on alienating the traditional sources of its power -- minorities, youth, and Independents.
Three, Democrats cannot find any issues that the people support, nor any leaders to convince the people to embrace them.
So it is no surprise that the panicked Democrats bark at the shadows -- given that they know their revolutionary, neo-socialist agenda is destroying them. And yet, like all addicts, they choose destruction over abandoning their self-destructive fixations.
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Best, and most accurate guess, is a guy whose name starts with an "O" and ends with "bama"
Amazing how all those reform the court special interest groups suddenly stopped promoting how much the Supreme Court needed additional justices as soon as Trump won.
Not many patriotic Americans are keen on giving a room temp IQ authoritarian man child more power.
It's almost like you don't comprehend that if they had succeeded with that, Trump would have that power and would be currently using it.
The truly amazing thing is that even after spending the last 12 years calling Trump an authoritarian/fascist and danger to democracy, as soon as the "court packing is a good idea" crowd capture the presidency again they'll tear down more norms and give more power to the Presidency. And then, as predictable as day follows night claim fascism when those powers are exercised by a Republican. They whine about executive power and authoritarianism and then will just give more power to the executive as soon as they can.
If the democrats succeeded with that stupidity, they would still be losing in the courts. Just at a faster pace.
Actual patriotic Americans understand the reasons to limit the power of the presidency no matter who is in office.
hellbent on alienating the traditional sources of its power -- minorities, youth, and Independents.
Democrats are now the party of the wealthy and those who want to exploit foreign cheap labor and those dependent on government handouts.
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You would think they would be smarter than that, but then you look at some of the discussions here and realize the collective insanity of this group is pretty much universal
New York is about to elect a mayor who hangs around with people who openly claim America deserved 9/11, so there's really no limit to the insanity at this point.
And conservatives voted for a man who used to hang out with a pedophile billionaire who the President called a "terrific guy". What a time to be alive. I do enjoy watching conservatives lose whatever they had left of a brain over some shit in NY that is never going to affect them. Good job you guys, keep up the good work exposing scary Muslims. Can't have those folk here in our 'Christian nation'. /s
Democrats had no problem with that until he chose to run as the opposition. Then you all started throwing a decade long temper tantrum.
? Trump was nothing but a bloated joke laughed at by the left and wasn't running for any political office till he decided to take over the Republican party which wasn't very hard apparently, those desperate morons would jump on any bandwagon that lets conservatives pretend they're not racist anymore while simultaneously eroding any and all civil rights protections. Trump owns those whiny conservatives' bigots now and it is pretty funny to watch them fall all over themselves to please him, albeit a little sad and gross at the same time.
Republican hero, master, legend, micro-penis...
lol. The next mayor of New York hangs around with people who think 9/11 was justified.
but trump but trump!!!
Until he wasn't. Since then you all have been crying about him. Daily.
And you all are fanboying him. And what is with the lefts disturbing interest in genitals?
Donald Trump is mentally ill he will never change so we have to wait him out until he meets his maker from one of the many diseases that afflict elderly people or which is a lot less likely the Republicans in Congress wake the f****** and go along with impeaching him. There will never be a day in the United States until Trump is gone when they will not be millions of people commenting negatively about him and frankly fighting against his actions. It's not going to happen Trump is not going to be accepted by the majority of the American people ever and even right now is approval ratings are low and dropping. After he tried to overthrow our government in January of 2021 the Republicans had a great opportunity to tell him to go to hell and don't come back and they didn't they couldn't because they are afraid of it because they know that he controls a cult that will do whatever he says so here we are
It's very odd and a reoccurring theme.
What does Trump have to do with Democrats voting for a guy who is perfectly happy associating with someone who justifies 9/11?
“Arnold Palmer was all man. And I say that in all due respect to women, and I love women. But this guy, this guy, this is a guy that was all man. This man was strong and tough, and I refuse to say it, “but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there — they said ‘oh my god, that’s unbelievable.'” - Donald J Trump
"I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything" - Donald J Trump
“Look at those hands, are they small hands? And, he referred to my hands – ‘if they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.” - Donald J Trump in response to a Republican, Marco Rubio, who is now Trumps Secretary of State that said “He’s always calling me Little Marco. And I’ll admit he’s taller than me. He’s like 6’2, which is why I don’t understand why his hands are the size of someone who is 5’2,”.
It's not the left that is so interested in genitals; it's Trump that made himself an easy target by being so sensitive about it.
There is an unhealthy fixation happening. Even with you.
I'm not sure that's a fair representative sample.
The seed is one hell of an indictment. But even ignoring everything listed, does anyone have a clue what Democrats will do if they regain control of Congress and the White House?
Democrats are blaming Trump for the sun rising in the east. Okay, that's politics I suppose. The obvious goal for Democrats is to remove Trump. Then what? Why would removing Trump provide Democrats a mandate to do anything?
Trump will no longer be President on January 20th, 2029. Democrats don't have to do anything for that to happen. What are Democrats going to do when Trump is gone? Does anyone know? Or are Democrats just planning to wing it?
They want him gone because he is reversing decades of liberal stink.
They have to have some kind of a platform to run on in order to regain control. Right now their only "platform" is herd stupidity. They have no clue to what they want. They've given up on the people decades ago. They've investigated virtually everything and it's all blown up in their faces.
They literally have nothing that can use to move forward.
Is there a vaccine for herd stupidity? Masks seem to make the condition worse.
IMO they're desperately trying to avoid a circular firing squad.
I'm not sure that's exactly correct. They know what they want. They want to have enough power that they never lose it again so that they can do away with democracy, replacing it with a centrally controlled society. Herd stupidity is the method by which they hope to get there and maintain it. They use emotional reasoning to control the herd, meaning they say things like "tax the rich" which appeals to simple human greed, for instance. The problem is, they cannot use actual reasoning to convince their base as that would invite people to think and consider counter arguments to their position, leading some to begin to think critically, the absolute enemy of their position.
In the end, they only look like they don't know what they want. They know. It's just that they fall victim to the same poison they feed their base. They become just as emotional as they desire to make their base to be. In other words, they know what they want, they just don't know how to get there. I think one of their greatest hopes, though, is that they've dumbed down the public education system to such an extent that in a decade or two, they will have precisely a large enough herd to finally get what they want.
Wouldn't that be the "fascist" society they are claiming Trump is trying to install? Funny how that works isn't it.
They've reached it with their merry little band of lemmings.
That's already forming.
Yes. It's amazing to me that their position fails to register with them as far closer to fascism, or a result indistinguishable to fascism than the right. That said, I'm sure it seems exactly the same from their point of view concerning the right.
The entire seeded article is bonkers, but this tells you all you need to know about Victor Davis Hanson.
Trump was convicted in the only case of the four that went to trial for Victor Davis Hansen to allege that none of these cases were valid is absurd and it really discredits the notion that he is a serious commentator on American politics which is a shame because he's a university professor but he's obviously abandoned any semblance of being honest. It's disgraceful that he thinks there was no reason to investigate and eventually prosecute Trump over his actions related to the 2020 election and January 6th. The same goes for the Georgia case or Trump was accused of election interference never in the history of our country has a president called a state official and ask them to find 1200 votes so the president could win a state he had actually lost
More parody!! Good stuff dude.
Why? Isn't "liberals" self destructing the right wing goal, isn't that what right wing extremists are hoping for? Why complain about it?
If Trump and MAGA can do no wrong and every right wing thought, idea and policy is to be considered right without question, then why worry what the "libs" do?
I’d prefer progressives not to want to destroy the country, support foreign terrorists and simply instead raise taxes or something normal.