The left in its platonic form. “I’m not getting what I want. Democracy is under threat”. Moral and intellectual bankruptcy to the point of downright, wilful evil.
Conflating their ideological preferences for the essence of the thing itself is a long time liberal trick, now being practiced on themselves.
“We lost; democracy is in peril.”
“You’re against affirmative action; you must be anti-black.”
“Anti-abortion? Anti-woman.”
Joe Biden himself gave the best illustration of this extreme self-centeredness when he told a black interviewer during the campaign that if the interviewer didn’t support him, “You ain’t black.”
I can faintly recall, up until 2012 or 2014 or so, where I was blue as can be. The Iraq war mess was still fresh, the financial crisis, and I was a reliable consumer of all things NYT, WaPo, The Atlantic and so on. Trump’s election in 2016 practically knocked me off my seat when I learned of it
Fast forward 5 years later. I literally thank the stars for governors like Ron DeSantis. I think the US Left has gone completely off the deep end, and is in a death spiral of its own insanity.
The pandemic seems to have only magnified the fault lines. How utterly insane is it that Donald Trump says “I got the booster, no no don’t boo, its good, you should too, but it should totally be your choice and mandates are wrong” and THIS is now considered a right wing position
Yep and we are going to be a ferocious political force because neither mad-Dems nor the Trump-Faragists know we even exist yet, blinded as they both are by their own wilful hubris and complacency …
Excuse my cementedness in reality, but exactly which party is this ferocity going to honor by plighting its troth with? I’m with you: they both reek, for different reasons, but they’re united in one overwhelming thing, support of the corporaticrats.
We need a third party which will focus on one primary thing, destroying the Establishment. Wipe out the oligarchs, use antitrust laws to break them up, especially Amazon. ( I commend Michael Warren Davis’ article about the evil of Amazon, from June, which is at The American Conservative’s site, to everyone. ) Destroy surveillance capitalism. Restructure taxes to their levels between the postwar period and the 1980s. America had a large middle class until Reaganomics made our maintaining it impossible.
Tariffs. A moratorium on all immigration for at least forty years, granting occasional exceptions which are in our national interests. Stay the f*ck away from provoking other nations. Destroy the crime wave.
Destroy Wokeness. The American people hate it. Yesterday, I passed a woman whose tight jeans and bare midriff revealed a lovely female figure. She had a short but full beard and mustache. Fine, she’s an adult. The American people don’t want the radical spiritual/mental pathology of transgenderism inflicted on their children.
And colormania, back from its supposed death sometime in the 60s, needs to be throttled once and for all.
Sound like the sort of thing you’re looking for? It’s probably fantasy that it could happen, because the American people really are closer not to civil war, I think, but mass civic breakdown, ad hoc, irrational, the violence of the summer of 2020 our routine, Jules Feiffer’s “Little Murders” our daily lives, this week, my area of town shooting at the one on the other side of the thoroughfare, next week, our neighborhoods allying to take the one whose housewives shop at the Gucci supermarket our bunch can’t afford, times thousands.
But my cheerier vision could prevail. People want it. Nothing ever happens.
This is pretty much my position, but my significant event was Brexit instead of the Trump election, and my disillusionment was with FT and The Economist (and The Atlantic on the rarer occasion) beginning with the aftermath of the Brexit vote.
Same here, as someone else put it, ‘a refugee from the left’.
I’m so lost in fact, that I found myself the other day wondering at how reasonable and conciliatory Tomi Lahren seems compared to AOC (Fox news was a laughing stock in my house up until eighteen months ago).
This feels like a child taking their ball home because they lost a game of football.
Biden (and/or those around him) has completely misread the mandate he was given by the America people.
He beat Bernie in the primaries because he was not crazy and promised to bring the adults back into the room – he was elected president to bring calm to a febrile political climate and reunite the country.
However, he seems to think he was elected as a radical change LBJ or FDR type reformer.
He doesn’t have the charisma, pedigree or more importantly the timing and balance of power to do this.
N.B. in a weird way Republicans losing the Georgia senate race has really worked well for them on this issue. If the balance of power had been 51-49 the Democrats could have simply blamed the bill not passing on the Republicans and kept their fragile coalition of radical progressives, centre-left’s and moderates together. This way – we can all see the fissures widening and the coalition starting to tear itself apart.
I’m not sure it’s Biden who thinks “he was elected as a radical change .. reformer”, I reckon it’s his staff who are all in on dramatic reform – along with the rest of the activist wing of the Democratic Party.
Biden has always been go along, get along. He has arrived, magically it seems, but is simply a vessel for unelectable others. Jill knows this, of course, but has her own agenda. The party barely survived Obama and his personality cult. Now the party has been hijacked by excessive progressive voices. The opposition is weaning itself away from Trump hoping for a soft landing.
Amen. The personality cult of Obama was the first episode in a long national hysteria that ails us still.
Christopher Peter
2 years ago
It’s not so different in the UK. When left-wing parties keep losing, it’s not long before they complain about the electoral system. If you lose, change the rules.
Aldo Maccione
2 years ago
Morally bankrupt.
It’s frightening.
Warren T
2 years ago
“Cracking down” on the Senate. “Packing the Supreme Court”. Sounds like very undemocratic language to me, so the best strategy is to accuse the other side of threatening democracy.
If that blatant hypocrisy doesn’t flip the entire congress to bright red in ‘22, the U.S. is surely doomed.
Warren T
2 years ago
AOC and her ilk completely ignore the fact that the senate is comprised of exactly 100 elected members and 50 of them are firmly against BBB in its current form. There is nothing more democratic than that.
Allison Barrows
2 years ago
“The Democrats’ 2020 victory was built on the unpopularity of Donald Trump”. No. The Democrat’s blatant theft of the 2020 election was necessary due to the popularity of Donald Trump, who won in a landslide.
The effort to prove irregularities tipped the election are ongoing, but close observations will make future elections less susceptible to some of those irregularities.
Tony Lee
2 years ago
Obama was alleged to have observed that Biden wasn’t up to the job, during the nominations process. And he would know.
Many suspect he remains behind the curtain directing much that happens. Not clear what Mr Obama’s objectives really are, but his socialist tendencies harm his party.
jonathan carter-meggs
2 years ago
The western world has drifted to the political left over the last few decades of peace after the war. Infiltrating institutions and indoctrinating the younger generations with collective propaganda and promises that the older generations know to be unattainable. These older generations are disappearing and so the drift left may continue apace. A reaction to the rise of China may yet lead us to a pendulum swing back to the right.
Christina Dalcher
2 years ago
Hoist. Petard. You know the rest.
Great article. Frightening, but great.
Morry Rotenberg
2 years ago
“The last President spent the months between the election and Biden’s inauguration doing everything he could to stay in power.” You mean by presenting evidence of fraud to the courts? Just like Clinton did after her defeat. And just like Al Gore did after his defeat by GWB?
Actually Trump never presented any evidence in Court merely made allegations which the courts, correctly would not act on until evidence was presented, it never was. Clinton accepted the 2016 election on election night. She may have questioned some of the levels of propaganda and where it had come from but she never called for the result to be overturned. Gore had a specific issue to do with the way some votes had been removed in Florida on seemingly trivial grounds (the hanging chad), when the Supreme Court decided against him he accepted it and refused to back a move at the meeting where the electoral college reports to disallow the Florida electors.
Neither fired up a mob to storm the Capitol and try physically to prevent the electoral college report from going ahead.
Point of fact: Clinton conceded on November 9th, which was the day after the election. She didn’t need to question the results because she knew she “had an insurance policy” in the form of the Steele dossier and Paige/Strzok fable.
Malcolm Knott
2 years ago
Much of this is sound and fury signifying nothing but the proposal to pack the Supreme Court is a real and present danger to the constitution.
Andrzej Wasniewski
2 years ago
The author is exactly right. With Biden they lost all the hope for winning elections. Even if people were initially fooled by the far let using the 100 old brain in 80 old body used as a decoy for transforming the US into feudal state where the elites will will have free reign and keep the rest on guaranteed income and under tight control. Like California. They know that they cannot allow the 2022 elections to happen. If they loose House and Senate their ability to orchestrate a coup will be gone. IMO the coup will come as a federally mandated lockdowns for the COVID variant that ….will magically emerge around Sept next year.
Last edited 2 years ago by Andrzej Wasniewski
Mike Bell
2 years ago
We have to admit, however, that the US system of democracy is broken.
I an attempt to make sure their system would not allow a King George to have complete power, the founding fathers created the President, House and Senate so no part would have full power.
For most of my life the US system has been in deadlock. There have been brief moments when all three parts worked together (from one party), but, most of the time, as soon as a working government is elected, the electorate destroy it with mid-terms, Senate etc elections.
The result is the creation of ‘executive orders’. In other works, King George by another name. However, in 4 years time another King George just changes them. Bonkers.
Readers may not like the motives behind the call for reform, but reform is needed for sure. China is laughing.
Why do we hold up the US as a pinnacle of ‘democracy’? Why not our own UK system? At least we elect functioning government.
Many states function very well. It is the federal government that is dysfunctional because too much power resides in its hands and political ideologues see it as a path to prosecuting their ideology not serving the people.
Deadlock is not inherently a bad thing. If elected officials are coming from such widely differing viewpoints that it is hard to push policy through, then that means that the nation as a whole doesn’t have a strong consensus view on many matters (assuming people pay attention to who they vote for). In that case it is best not to handle those issues at the federal level. It really wasn’t designed to do all that much. Defense, foreign relations, preventing the states from clashing with each other (a real problem under the first constitution). It is currently doing far more than it was designed to. A few of those things are inevitable as the world has changed, but far too much has been simple power grabs or temporarily expedient measures that never quite got around to going away.
Pushing more authority back down to the states is the best way. Let California be crazy if they want, but don’t let them force it on everyone else. Let Texas not be crazy, but don’t give them the power to prevent California from acting the fool. Then everyone can be happy. The more issues are pushed to national level, the more people will be unhappy because they have less voice at that level.
Executive orders, as they have been used so much the past few administrations (with Trump being an admirable outlier) have gone beyond their intent. They were supposed to be, as the name suggests, orders from the executive to the executive agencies on how to carry out laws, specific guidance and priorities. Although both Clinton and George W. did this to some degree, it was Obama who turned them into ‘legislation by other means.’ Congress and/or the Courts could roll that power back if they cared to. I do think the media is heavily to blame on this due to how they creatively edit (read: lie) about the issues. Remember how Obama made an executive order for federal agencies not to enforce certain immigration laws? Not a peep from the media. When Trump made an executive order directing them to enforce the laws passed by Congress on immigration, it was an assault on democracy for the executive branch to obey the law. The best thing would be for more politicians to listen to the advice of the president so famous for trashing the media. Yes, you all know who I’m talking about: Thomas Jefferson.
Ann Ceely
2 years ago
Why are US politicians ignoring Biden’s interfering in Northern Island-EU problems?
Because it’s better for him to interfere there than at home. I mean really, how could he make the EU worse? And do they care at all what he thinks? So no chance of him causing real harm there.
Christopher Barclay
2 years ago
This article misses the point. The likes of AOC are shouting about anything that distracts their supporters from the facts that the ‘progressives’ are voting for higher military expenditure while the Democrats have done nothing to introduce universal healthcare.
Jerry Jay Carroll
2 years ago
It is strange the author didn’t mention the triggering event of this crisis, the left’s refusal to accept the legitimacy of Trump’s election and the four-year war it and the deep state waged against his administration. Has Russiagate faded from memory so quickly?
Karl Schuldes
2 years ago
Voting reform is not inane. Some of the rule changes may not be effective, but we need reform.
Will Cummings
2 years ago
Well I guess if you’re gonna be pretty much all wrong about almost everything then it’s nice to be able to share the experience with lots of other people. This collective team oriented bungling allows the group to do and say all sorts of foolish things under the aegis of herd impunity.
Last edited 2 years ago by Will Cummings
Richard Slack
2 years ago
No one doubts that Manchin can cast his votes in the Senate according to the throbbings of his conscience but frankly he is grandstanding. The BBB bill has already been much amended largely to calm the prickings of his conscience but when one concession is made up pops the request for more. The bill probably should be brought to the Senate for a vote and let him put his vote where his mouth is. After which perhaps he could state what exactly it is that he will support.
Bipartisanship is a fine thing but you can’t be bipartisan on your own. The GOP is more partisan now than at any time for a while. In 2010 when the GOP got a majority in the Senate Mitch McConnell stated that his only political goal was to make Obama a one-term President. He failed there but under his leadership during Trump’s Presidency the Senate passed one Bill to give tax breaks largely to the better off then hardly met. Business from the House simply didn’t make it to the floor. It is not tolerable for processes to be blocked in that way.
American politics is becoming lop-sided. There has only been one Presidential Election since 1988 when the GOP won a majority of the popular vote and it is quite possible in 2022 that the Democrats will win more votes in both houses but lose control of both.
The principle of bipartisanship on the Supreme Court died the death when McConnell refused to allow Obama’s nomination months before his term of office was due to end while racing Trump’s last one though with barely days to go.
There are problems but they are not of the Left’s making.
Please, spare me…
“In 2010 when the GOP got a majority in the Senate Mitch McConnell stated that his only political goal was to make Obama a one-term President.” And the Dems outdid even that: they had decided to pursue impeachment of Trump before he had even been inaugurated.
“during Trump’s Presidency the Senate passed one Bill to give tax breaks largely to the better off” — Yeah, right… like limiting the SALT deduction to $10,000 which the Dems’ billionaire donors in California and New York are still squealing about???
“There has only been one Presidential Election since 1988 when the GOP won a majority of the popular vote.” Irrelevant. The president is not elected by the people he is elected by the states. See Article II, section 1 of the Constitution.
“The principle of bipartisanship on the Supreme Court died the death when McConnell refused to allow Obama’s nomination months before his term of office was due to end.” You mean when McConnell employed “the Biden rule”?
Talk about none so blind as those who refuse to see.
The left in its platonic form. “I’m not getting what I want. Democracy is under threat”. Moral and intellectual bankruptcy to the point of downright, wilful evil.
strange use of the word platonic
Conflating their ideological preferences for the essence of the thing itself is a long time liberal trick, now being practiced on themselves.
“We lost; democracy is in peril.”
“You’re against affirmative action; you must be anti-black.”
“Anti-abortion? Anti-woman.”
Joe Biden himself gave the best illustration of this extreme self-centeredness when he told a black interviewer during the campaign that if the interviewer didn’t support him, “You ain’t black.”
Platonic ? Planktonic, rather.
I can faintly recall, up until 2012 or 2014 or so, where I was blue as can be. The Iraq war mess was still fresh, the financial crisis, and I was a reliable consumer of all things NYT, WaPo, The Atlantic and so on. Trump’s election in 2016 practically knocked me off my seat when I learned of it
Fast forward 5 years later. I literally thank the stars for governors like Ron DeSantis. I think the US Left has gone completely off the deep end, and is in a death spiral of its own insanity.
The pandemic seems to have only magnified the fault lines. How utterly insane is it that Donald Trump says “I got the booster, no no don’t boo, its good, you should too, but it should totally be your choice and mandates are wrong” and THIS is now considered a right wing position
Probably because it IS a right wing position. As is ANY position nowadays that’s not completely off the radar.
Welcome to the sane side of the aisle.
I find myself in the same place as do so many others.
Yep and we are going to be a ferocious political force because neither mad-Dems nor the Trump-Faragists know we even exist yet, blinded as they both are by their own wilful hubris and complacency …
Excuse my cementedness in reality, but exactly which party is this ferocity going to honor by plighting its troth with? I’m with you: they both reek, for different reasons, but they’re united in one overwhelming thing, support of the corporaticrats.
We need a third party which will focus on one primary thing, destroying the Establishment. Wipe out the oligarchs, use antitrust laws to break them up, especially Amazon. ( I commend Michael Warren Davis’ article about the evil of Amazon, from June, which is at The American Conservative’s site, to everyone. ) Destroy surveillance capitalism. Restructure taxes to their levels between the postwar period and the 1980s. America had a large middle class until Reaganomics made our maintaining it impossible.
Tariffs. A moratorium on all immigration for at least forty years, granting occasional exceptions which are in our national interests. Stay the f*ck away from provoking other nations. Destroy the crime wave.
Destroy Wokeness. The American people hate it. Yesterday, I passed a woman whose tight jeans and bare midriff revealed a lovely female figure. She had a short but full beard and mustache. Fine, she’s an adult. The American people don’t want the radical spiritual/mental pathology of transgenderism inflicted on their children.
And colormania, back from its supposed death sometime in the 60s, needs to be throttled once and for all.
Sound like the sort of thing you’re looking for? It’s probably fantasy that it could happen, because the American people really are closer not to civil war, I think, but mass civic breakdown, ad hoc, irrational, the violence of the summer of 2020 our routine, Jules Feiffer’s “Little Murders” our daily lives, this week, my area of town shooting at the one on the other side of the thoroughfare, next week, our neighborhoods allying to take the one whose housewives shop at the Gucci supermarket our bunch can’t afford, times thousands.
But my cheerier vision could prevail. People want it. Nothing ever happens.
This is pretty much my position, but my significant event was Brexit instead of the Trump election, and my disillusionment was with FT and The Economist (and The Atlantic on the rarer occasion) beginning with the aftermath of the Brexit vote.
As it was famoulsy said of The Atlantic: a magazine that allows its readers to feel intelligent without requiring them to think.
The Atlantic’s owner is a female billionaire who knows better than you. Follow her guidance for happiness.
Same here. Brexit truly opened my eyes to so many things
Same here, as someone else put it, ‘a refugee from the left’.
I’m so lost in fact, that I found myself the other day wondering at how reasonable and conciliatory Tomi Lahren seems compared to AOC (Fox news was a laughing stock in my house up until eighteen months ago).
Exactly
Welcome into the light.
This feels like a child taking their ball home because they lost a game of football.
Biden (and/or those around him) has completely misread the mandate he was given by the America people.
He beat Bernie in the primaries because he was not crazy and promised to bring the adults back into the room – he was elected president to bring calm to a febrile political climate and reunite the country.
However, he seems to think he was elected as a radical change LBJ or FDR type reformer.
He doesn’t have the charisma, pedigree or more importantly the timing and balance of power to do this.
N.B. in a weird way Republicans losing the Georgia senate race has really worked well for them on this issue. If the balance of power had been 51-49 the Democrats could have simply blamed the bill not passing on the Republicans and kept their fragile coalition of radical progressives, centre-left’s and moderates together. This way – we can all see the fissures widening and the coalition starting to tear itself apart.
I’m not sure it’s Biden who thinks “he was elected as a radical change .. reformer”, I reckon it’s his staff who are all in on dramatic reform – along with the rest of the activist wing of the Democratic Party.
After Biden won, I predicted that he would not be able to say no to the (many) women on the left of him …
Biden has always been go along, get along. He has arrived, magically it seems, but is simply a vessel for unelectable others. Jill knows this, of course, but has her own agenda. The party barely survived Obama and his personality cult. Now the party has been hijacked by excessive progressive voices. The opposition is weaning itself away from Trump hoping for a soft landing.
Amen. The personality cult of Obama was the first episode in a long national hysteria that ails us still.
It’s not so different in the UK. When left-wing parties keep losing, it’s not long before they complain about the electoral system. If you lose, change the rules.
Morally bankrupt.
It’s frightening.
“Cracking down” on the Senate. “Packing the Supreme Court”. Sounds like very undemocratic language to me, so the best strategy is to accuse the other side of threatening democracy.
If that blatant hypocrisy doesn’t flip the entire congress to bright red in ‘22, the U.S. is surely doomed.
AOC and her ilk completely ignore the fact that the senate is comprised of exactly 100 elected members and 50 of them are firmly against BBB in its current form. There is nothing more democratic than that.
“The Democrats’ 2020 victory was built on the unpopularity of Donald Trump”. No. The Democrat’s blatant theft of the 2020 election was necessary due to the popularity of Donald Trump, who won in a landslide.
Evidence please. Trump’s team couldn’t find enough to present in court.
Some judges refused to even listen to some of Trump’s team let alone hear their evidence.
The effort to prove irregularities tipped the election are ongoing, but close observations will make future elections less susceptible to some of those irregularities.
Obama was alleged to have observed that Biden wasn’t up to the job, during the nominations process. And he would know.
Many suspect he remains behind the curtain directing much that happens. Not clear what Mr Obama’s objectives really are, but his socialist tendencies harm his party.
The western world has drifted to the political left over the last few decades of peace after the war. Infiltrating institutions and indoctrinating the younger generations with collective propaganda and promises that the older generations know to be unattainable. These older generations are disappearing and so the drift left may continue apace. A reaction to the rise of China may yet lead us to a pendulum swing back to the right.
Hoist. Petard. You know the rest.
Great article. Frightening, but great.
“The last President spent the months between the election and Biden’s inauguration doing everything he could to stay in power.” You mean by presenting evidence of fraud to the courts? Just like Clinton did after her defeat. And just like Al Gore did after his defeat by GWB?
Actually Trump never presented any evidence in Court merely made allegations which the courts, correctly would not act on until evidence was presented, it never was. Clinton accepted the 2016 election on election night. She may have questioned some of the levels of propaganda and where it had come from but she never called for the result to be overturned. Gore had a specific issue to do with the way some votes had been removed in Florida on seemingly trivial grounds (the hanging chad), when the Supreme Court decided against him he accepted it and refused to back a move at the meeting where the electoral college reports to disallow the Florida electors.
Neither fired up a mob to storm the Capitol and try physically to prevent the electoral college report from going ahead.
Point of fact: Clinton conceded on November 9th, which was the day after the election. She didn’t need to question the results because she knew she “had an insurance policy” in the form of the Steele dossier and Paige/Strzok fable.
Much of this is sound and fury signifying nothing but the proposal to pack the Supreme Court is a real and present danger to the constitution.
The author is exactly right. With Biden they lost all the hope for winning elections. Even if people were initially fooled by the far let using the 100 old brain in 80 old body used as a decoy for transforming the US into feudal state where the elites will will have free reign and keep the rest on guaranteed income and under tight control. Like California. They know that they cannot allow the 2022 elections to happen. If they loose House and Senate their ability to orchestrate a coup will be gone. IMO the coup will come as a federally mandated lockdowns for the COVID variant that ….will magically emerge around Sept next year.
We have to admit, however, that the US system of democracy is broken.
I an attempt to make sure their system would not allow a King George to have complete power, the founding fathers created the President, House and Senate so no part would have full power.
For most of my life the US system has been in deadlock. There have been brief moments when all three parts worked together (from one party), but, most of the time, as soon as a working government is elected, the electorate destroy it with mid-terms, Senate etc elections.
The result is the creation of ‘executive orders’. In other works, King George by another name. However, in 4 years time another King George just changes them. Bonkers.
Readers may not like the motives behind the call for reform, but reform is needed for sure. China is laughing.
Why do we hold up the US as a pinnacle of ‘democracy’? Why not our own UK system? At least we elect functioning government.
“functioning” ? Which bit, exactly?
Many states function very well. It is the federal government that is dysfunctional because too much power resides in its hands and political ideologues see it as a path to prosecuting their ideology not serving the people.
Deadlock is not inherently a bad thing. If elected officials are coming from such widely differing viewpoints that it is hard to push policy through, then that means that the nation as a whole doesn’t have a strong consensus view on many matters (assuming people pay attention to who they vote for). In that case it is best not to handle those issues at the federal level. It really wasn’t designed to do all that much. Defense, foreign relations, preventing the states from clashing with each other (a real problem under the first constitution). It is currently doing far more than it was designed to. A few of those things are inevitable as the world has changed, but far too much has been simple power grabs or temporarily expedient measures that never quite got around to going away.
Pushing more authority back down to the states is the best way. Let California be crazy if they want, but don’t let them force it on everyone else. Let Texas not be crazy, but don’t give them the power to prevent California from acting the fool. Then everyone can be happy. The more issues are pushed to national level, the more people will be unhappy because they have less voice at that level.
Executive orders, as they have been used so much the past few administrations (with Trump being an admirable outlier) have gone beyond their intent. They were supposed to be, as the name suggests, orders from the executive to the executive agencies on how to carry out laws, specific guidance and priorities. Although both Clinton and George W. did this to some degree, it was Obama who turned them into ‘legislation by other means.’ Congress and/or the Courts could roll that power back if they cared to. I do think the media is heavily to blame on this due to how they creatively edit (read: lie) about the issues. Remember how Obama made an executive order for federal agencies not to enforce certain immigration laws? Not a peep from the media. When Trump made an executive order directing them to enforce the laws passed by Congress on immigration, it was an assault on democracy for the executive branch to obey the law. The best thing would be for more politicians to listen to the advice of the president so famous for trashing the media. Yes, you all know who I’m talking about: Thomas Jefferson.
Why are US politicians ignoring Biden’s interfering in Northern Island-EU problems?
Because it’s better for him to interfere there than at home. I mean really, how could he make the EU worse? And do they care at all what he thinks? So no chance of him causing real harm there.
This article misses the point. The likes of AOC are shouting about anything that distracts their supporters from the facts that the ‘progressives’ are voting for higher military expenditure while the Democrats have done nothing to introduce universal healthcare.
It is strange the author didn’t mention the triggering event of this crisis, the left’s refusal to accept the legitimacy of Trump’s election and the four-year war it and the deep state waged against his administration. Has Russiagate faded from memory so quickly?
Voting reform is not inane. Some of the rule changes may not be effective, but we need reform.
Well I guess if you’re gonna be pretty much all wrong about almost everything then it’s nice to be able to share the experience with lots of other people. This collective team oriented bungling allows the group to do and say all sorts of foolish things under the aegis of herd impunity.
No one doubts that Manchin can cast his votes in the Senate according to the throbbings of his conscience but frankly he is grandstanding. The BBB bill has already been much amended largely to calm the prickings of his conscience but when one concession is made up pops the request for more. The bill probably should be brought to the Senate for a vote and let him put his vote where his mouth is. After which perhaps he could state what exactly it is that he will support.
Bipartisanship is a fine thing but you can’t be bipartisan on your own. The GOP is more partisan now than at any time for a while. In 2010 when the GOP got a majority in the Senate Mitch McConnell stated that his only political goal was to make Obama a one-term President. He failed there but under his leadership during Trump’s Presidency the Senate passed one Bill to give tax breaks largely to the better off then hardly met. Business from the House simply didn’t make it to the floor. It is not tolerable for processes to be blocked in that way.
American politics is becoming lop-sided. There has only been one Presidential Election since 1988 when the GOP won a majority of the popular vote and it is quite possible in 2022 that the Democrats will win more votes in both houses but lose control of both.
The principle of bipartisanship on the Supreme Court died the death when McConnell refused to allow Obama’s nomination months before his term of office was due to end while racing Trump’s last one though with barely days to go.
There are problems but they are not of the Left’s making.
Please, spare me…
“In 2010 when the GOP got a majority in the Senate Mitch McConnell stated that his only political goal was to make Obama a one-term President.” And the Dems outdid even that: they had decided to pursue impeachment of Trump before he had even been inaugurated.
“during Trump’s Presidency the Senate passed one Bill to give tax breaks largely to the better off” — Yeah, right… like limiting the SALT deduction to $10,000 which the Dems’ billionaire donors in California and New York are still squealing about???
“There has only been one Presidential Election since 1988 when the GOP won a majority of the popular vote.” Irrelevant. The president is not elected by the people he is elected by the states. See Article II, section 1 of the Constitution.
“The principle of bipartisanship on the Supreme Court died the death when McConnell refused to allow Obama’s nomination months before his term of office was due to end.” You mean when McConnell employed “the Biden rule”?
Talk about none so blind as those who refuse to see.