Newt Gingrich: Bye Democratic Party – You're being transformed into an anti-American engine of radical change
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential candidate debate was one more reminder that we are living through the death of the Democratic Party . It is being replaced by a new Democratic-Socialist Party.
If you think I exaggerate, consider these examples.
Imagine what would have happened if any candidate in the debate had the courage (or lack of sense) to actively defend President Bill Clinton’s policies on welfare reform, capital gains tax cuts and balanced federal budgets, or his 1996 State of the Union assertion that “the era of Big Government is over.”
Imagine that any candidate had agreed with President Barack Obama’s original 2008 position that “I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.”
Or imagine that a candidate had defended ObamaCare as the solution to health care in America.
When the last two Democratic presidents can no longer be defended by the men and women hoping to become the next Democratic president, something profound has happened.
We have already seen the old Democratic Party (and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland and Rep. James Clyburn of South Caroline literally represent the old Democratic Party) being eclipsed by “the Squad.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York is now the spiritual leader of House Democrats. And every major Democratic presidential candidate has endorsed radical Green New Deal-type proposals that would expand government, destroy the energy industry, radically change America, and plunge the economy into a depression.
The Democratic-Socialist Party wants to outlaw private health insurance, punish the successful (especially the wealthy), and expand government control over virtually everything.
In 2020, every Democratic candidate will be faced with the challenge of defending a national party that is now the Democratic-Socialist Party.
The Democratic-Socialist candidates embrace policies ranging from wanting to confiscate guns; forcing the radical California gender curriculum on every state; removing the tax exemption for every church, synagogue, and mosque that defines marriage as between a man and a woman; providing free (meaning taxpayer-funded) health care to people living in our country illegally; and opening the border so anyone and everyone will be able to enter the United States without having to worry about immigration laws.
Some of these radical candidates favor tax-paid sex-change operations in prison – and genderless prisons (one of Biden’s contributions to the dialogue) so male criminals could declare themselves female to be sent to women’s prisons.
Imagine that one of the candidates had said he or she was against abortion. The result might have been a riot – and at a minimum an expulsion of the heretic. Instead, the new Democratic-Socialist Party stands for abortion on the last day of pregnancy, and its most radical acolytes are now for infanticide after delivery as long as “the infant would be kept comfortable” (see the New York state law endorsed by the Democratic governor of Virginia).
Almost equally heretical would have been a candidate defending Columbus Day (favored by 57 percent to 29 percent of the public, with the Democratic-Socialists once again in a position favored by about a quarter of the country).
Imagine that candidate attacking the National Education Association’s pledge that “educators must acknowledge the existence of White supremacy culture as a primary root cause of institutional racism, structural racism, and White privilege. ...the Association will actively advocate for social and educational strategies fostering the eradication of institutional racism and White privilege perpetuated by White supremacy culture.”
White supremacy culture is left-wing code for American history, American exceptionalism, the rule of law, the Constitution, and the various habits and patterns that made America the most prosperous and powerful nation in history.
Can you imagine one of the candidates in the debate arguing that our schools should not be centers of anti-American indoctrination dictated by left-wing unions? Of course not. They would be booed off the stage.
As The Wall Street Journal put it in an editorial headlined “Warren and Sanders, Policy Mates.” the pattern is overwhelming.
The editorial says this about Warren and Sanders: “They both would force these companies to get a new federal charter requiring them to consider ‘stakeholders’ rather than shareholders in their business decisions. They both want to reimpose the old Glass-Steagall fence between commercial banking and investment banking. 'The business model of Wall Street is fraud,’ Mr. Sanders likes to say. Ms. Warren also thinks bankers are crooks: 'Wall Street is looting the economy.’ They agree the U.S. Postal Service should become a bank that offers government checking accounts and would compete with private banks.
“On college as an entitlement, the two again see eye to eye. 'It’s time to cancel student debt and make universal free college a reality,’ one says. The other reverses the order: 'We are going to make public colleges and universities tuition free, and cancel all student debt.’ For the record, Ms. Warren’s plan is the first one.”
There are a scattered handful of traditional liberal Democrats in the House and Senate, but none have any chance of ever being a national candidate in the emerging Democratic-Socialist Party.
We are watching a historic moment in which a once-great American political party is transformed into an anti-American engine of radical change. In 2020, every Democratic candidate will be faced with the challenge of defending a national party that is now the Democratic-Socialist Party.
It will be a wrenching, defining moment for the party of Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy if it is conquered by the party of AOC, Sanders and Warren.
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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...rinse and repeat...blah, blah, blah, blah....rinse and repeat....
Trump is the worst president in history. He is out for himself, no one else. He spins conspiracy theories that are frankly, stupid, but his buys it anyway. Trump has yet to provide ANY proof at all that the Biden's did anything illegal in the Ukraine. Of course that was just to cover his own corruption. To give you an idea of where the GOP is? 129 republicans voted against trump's actions in Syria and his refusal to protect our Kurdish allies.
Newt Gingrich is a washed up partisan hack. Why should we listen to a guy that was banging skanks behind is dying wife's back, while he was screaming about family values to Clinton? What a worthless moron.
What does any of that BS have to do with the coming demise of the democrats party?
Because what he wrote is fucking garbage.
Yea, we have heard that since the 1700's...
Why ?
Because he's an idiot.
Nooooo....that doesn't help answer my question.
Are you going to just keep dodging my question or will you actually a answer it. I bet its the former
I would vote for Sponge Bob before I voted for trump. Clear enough?
It would be a step up in presidential IQ as well.
I was right.you will just keep dodging the question. It was never expected that you would give a rational answer.
OH BTW! I will vote for anything in this or any other universe before I would lower myself to vote for any of the current democrats running at this time. I am not ready to be lobotomized or to become the stereotypical lemming most of today's liberals have become.
Even if it was his buddy Patrick.
I answered you twice, sorry if you don't like the answer or don't understand them.
You support a president that lies 4,000+ times a year, and have the balls to call others lemmings? Really? LMFAO!
All of that and another what ever.
"When you're a star you can do anything" with a big warm "Stormy Who" thrown in for good measure.
As far as the Trump? Just a whole lot of Russians here, there and everywhere. ((((( Lev and Igor ))))) Really? You got to be joking, right?
Pelosi is right. "All roads lead to Putin with the Trump."
See comment 3.1 please. Same question.
see comment 4.
Pelosi is still right. And the Trump is a fraud, floated by laundered foreign money for at least a decade and half.
This is what it is. Not fantasy 'troll under the bridge' trying to steal the cookies.
You did not answer my question. I am not surprised!
Oh, wow - how 'bout showing us some PROOF of the "laundered foreign money".
Yeah - I like to see facts when falsehoods are presented.
It wasn't a question. It was a statement not unfamiliar with something right out of The Kremlin.
You asked nothing and said even less.
Manafort. And that ain't all.
I guess you went to one of those liberal schools that as long as you tried to read something you were rewarded even when you were wrong. Sorry, that doesn't work with me. Care to try again?
Is this your game now, just accuse others of not answering YOUR questions? Ask something that can be answered
I did ask a question that you could answer. You just refuse to.
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Scared to answer truthfully?
Answer what?
OMG an opinion piece by Newt.