The Democratic party has always had internal conflicts. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s coalition contained socialist Jews and blacks and Southern segregationists. That coalition held for 20 years after his presidency. But the Obama coalition seems to be fraying while he’s still in office. The black Left is angrier at the end of his presidency than it was at the beginning. The egalitarians think the country is worse off, and the technocrats are left trying to explain why their plans are so great, despite the fact that the economy has never really recovered on their watch. Moreover, none of Obama’s presumptive heirs have the charisma or skills to repair or sustain the coalition.
Sanders has charm, but the Jewish socialist transplant from Brooklyn has spent his political life in a state that has only about 7,500 blacks. He lacks the vocabulary to appeal beyond the white Left. Meanwhile, the black Left, an indispensable voting bloc, has no standard-bearer in the primaries and is clearly cross about it.
Clinton’s most comfortable in the role of elitist technocrat, which is great for fundraising from Wall Street and wooing Beltway journalists, but it’s not so useful for wooing voters in a populist environment. Thanks to her husband, she still has goodwill among African Americans. But she lacks the charisma, passion, or personal story to excite either the black Left or the white Left. The woman who left the White House “dead broke” makes five times the average American’s annual income per speech.
Just like in Inception, the manufactured dream is collapsing. Welcome to the Democrats nightmare.
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Right now the Democrats' best option seems to be a Biden-Warren ticket, which I like to think of as canned cream of mushroom soup with a few slices of progressive jalapeno thrown in to show the dinner guests you really do care.
ReplyDeleteThe most disturbing thing on the Republicans' side isn't Trump, but rather the across the board patrician sniffing and pearl-clutching over Trump. And who are these people pushing him to 24% in the polls?
Trump is actually the canary in the coal mine showing the rest of the Republican field that they're actually running Martin O'Malley-Jim Webb snoozers of campaigns, regardless of their respective pedigrees. Time for one of them to pull out a 1911 and shoot the football, wake up the stands.
You know you've got a bad problem when Joe Biden looks like a solution.
DeletePlease, God, may Joe Biden be nominated.
DeleteMark Steyn has an interesting theory about the Hillary email scandal connection to Benghazi (read down the page a bit at the linked piece).
ReplyDeleteLong and short of the theory is:
1. The terrorists in Benghazi seemed to be very well-informed.
2. The classified information in the Hillary-server emails released so far include the travel and protection plans of Amb. Chris Stevens at that time.
3. America's allies at the time (no guarantees that they are still allies, of course) knew about Hillary's off-campus email server and refused to communicate with her by email, instead emailing to Huma at her gov't email address.
Put 2 and 2 and 2 together from that, and it isn't much of a stretch to figure that the Benghazi terrorists got the info on Amb. Stevens from Hillary's server.
You gotta figure that the truth that she's protected has to be pretty awful for her to spin the lies that she's been spinning so far.
Frankly, it's time for a new political movement designed to destroy "Progressivism."
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