December 23, 2016 at 4:17 p.m.
Of desperadoes and Russians
Of desperadoes and Russians
Limbaugh was unfairly savaged and misconstrued, but everyone really knew what he meant. He hoped Obama would not succeed in getting his policies enacted because Limbaugh believed they would be a disaster for the country.
For those Democrats and liberals who believe the same thing about Donald Trump's policies, for those who are worried about energy independence, deregulation, lower taxes, school choice - the very policies we conservatives believe will revitalize the nation - they should be arguing vociferously against those policies, as Limbaugh did against Obama's policies.
They should be marching to the Main Streets and union halls of Wisconsin and Ohio, of Michigan and Pennsylvania and Iowa and making their case to the American people. They should be explaining to the people why they think those policies would be a disaster, and why their agenda is better.
That's what Hillary Clinton should have done, too; if she had, she would be getting ready for her inauguration. But instead of appealing to the hopes and desires and needs of average Americans, she appealed to the fantasies of the Democratic Party's own small crowd of identity elites, clustered on two coasts and mostly in two states.
She based her campaign on narcissistic delusions, built from a sugar-and-sand-castle belief that all of America was like Chappaqua, NY, just without the money. She sought - and received - legitimacy and assurances behind the gated garden walls of the wealthy, the only place legitimacy mattered to her.
After all, money - wealthy donors on the one hand and ever larger welfare promises on the other- would carry the day.
What was important to voters was not the candidates' policies but their gender, she believed. What was important was not bread-and-butter economics but wine-and-cheese social justice.
What mattered most, Clinton believed, was that she was sane, as if promising to blindly pursue the failed trade and immigration policies of Barack Obama would win her a judgment of sanity in the minds of desperate, deplorable voters.
What difference did it make anyway? She had the identity voters, the new American majority, and they cheered her on.
Since the election the Left has shown itself to be as self-absorbed as Clinton and making the same mistake. Its answer to Trump's historic and shocking victory is likewise based on narcissistic delusions, another sugar-and-sand-castle belief that what matters to costal elites matters also to everyone in between.
And so we see them try to smear the legitimacy of Trump's presidency through a series of antics that only those living behind the gated garden walls of the ideological Leftist elite can take seriously. Everyone else in America is laughing at them.
And so what has been important to them is still not bread-and-butter economic issues but time-wasting recounts in critical states that Clinton lost but might have won had she focused on average Americans - recounts everyone knew were a farce and political charade. What has been important to them is not the administration Trump is putting into place but an effort to use the tactics of McCarthyism to try and sway the Electoral College. How seriously was any of this taken? In both the recounts and the Electoral College, Clinton ended up in worse position than when she started. In trying to delegitimize Trump, the Left succeeded in delegitimizing itself.
And now they are at it again. After the fail in the Electoral College, the Left is loudly making noises about impeachment before the man even takes office.
This is nothing less than theatre of the absurd, and America is laughing at this acting out of epic proportions. Sadly, or amusingly, the Left seems oblivious that it is a laughing stock.
Little wonder that the Democrats have been virtually wiped out on the state and local levels. Little wonder that Trump thumped Clinton in the Electoral College, and, save for California, did so as well in the popular vote.
Little wonder that, as Marc Thiessen of the American Enterprise Institute recently wrote, you can drive some 3,000 miles across the entire continental United States without driving through a single county that voted for Hillary Clinton. Wow.
So the Left has apparently lost its collective mind - no individuality in this group, thank you very much - and with it the country. Or it could spell something even worse for them.
It could be that the Left isn't saying they believe Trump's policies will fail to help Americans because they are scared to death that his agenda will actually succeed in restoring prosperity.
Limbaugh could talk the way he did because he knew Obama's policies would have disastrous results; and they did. The Left might not be able to do so now precisely because, deep down, they know his policies might well make America great again.
Remember, the Left doesn't truly want a great America; they hate America and what it stands for. The Left doesn't want a prosperous nation; they thrive on welfare dependence.
But if Trump unlocks the inner cities and frees those voters from the chains of their Democratic ballots, if he restores America's manufacturing prowess and cements his working-class constituencies, if he cuts taxes and removes oppressive regulations so the middle class and small businesses can thrive again, then the Left will be finished for generations.
That's why they don't talk about issues. Their only hope is desperation and diversion. Their only hope is to distract America from Trump's agenda by trying to delegitimize Trump himself, before he even takes office, and to do so in any way they can, no matter how ridiculous they look. They are desperadoes hawking Russian snake oil.
And so instead of arguing for the benefits of energy dependence and outlandish energy costs that is their platform, they yell that the Russians are coming. Instead of arguing for the benefits of one-size-fits-all government schools, they are screaming about the FBI, even though we now know classified information was in fact on Anthony Wiener's device.
Instead of trying to argue the benefits of bigger government, higher taxes, more welfare, and more regulation, they are bellyaching about fake news, when fake news is the modus operandi of the Left and its media allies, and has been for years (see The Village Voice, The New York Times, The Washington Post, etc.). The Left continues to pursue red herrings instead of real issues because they know their policies don't work, and they have nothing else to offer voters. Just like Hillary Clinton, the Left's only reason for being is that it isn't the other party or Donald Trump. Their only reason for being is that they somehow deserve power because they are the sane champions of social justice, even if they see Russians under every bed.
The Left, just like Hillary Clinton's campaign, is nurtured only by its narcissism, without any anchor in reality. And look how well that worked for Hillary Clinton.
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