by Jeff Childers
Could this week have possibly been any better? Let’s take another day to enjoy the sweet juices of victory (or words to that effect). Then let’s start preparing for the left’s inevitable response. The pattern is always the same; after a big political shock, whether losing the Civil War, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, or Donald Trump’s first victory, the Democrat show runners always disappear for a week or two, leaving their media puppets shambolically thrashing around in search of a coherent thought.
Don’t worry though. By the end of their shadowy regrouping conference, whoever runs the Democrat party will have worked out a new plan. (A fascinating aside: The secret conference was said to be held on Epstein Island, but that particular venue is no longer on Travel & Leisure’s Top 10 list.)
Soon the party managers shall return from whatever demonic pit produces their ideas, stinking of sulphur, and holding a fresh, steaming new narrative with which to instruct the media and Democrats, telling them how to think and what to be outraged about. Last time, it was Russiagate. This time it will probably be even more outrageous. Expect a Weekly World News-headline type of claim, maybe something involving Donald Trump’s Secret Alien Love Baby with Putin.
Yesterday, Obama speechwriter and national security advisor Ben Rhodes ran a soulful New York Times op-ed headlined, “Democrats Walked Into a Trap Republicans Set for Them.” Rhodes wrote far too much, vomiting his surging emotions onto digital paper, publicly soul-searching, passionately rending his rhetorical shirt in overwhelming grief and mortified frustration.
After about 800 rambling words, Rhodes finally got around to his humble prescription for the Democrats’ path forward:
Do. Not. Believe. It. Rhodes is playing a carefully scripted role. Ben’s fake prescription is a transition narrative, designed to avoid accountability (we have to stop blaming each other and look forwards), to set Democrats up as the victims again, and to shift the blame for losing so badly onto Republicans.
This stage is very short. Before very much longer, all this faux humility and promising to learn important lessons will evolve into the same tired mantra: We TRIED to get along with Trump but HE made it impossible!
The silly notion that the Democrats would undertake self-reflection, course correction, and de-woke their politics is laughable. Don’t be ridiculous. The modern Democrat party has no reverse gear. Partisan Democrats are Thelma and Louise. They’re going forward, not backward.
Republicans have always been like Charlie Brown, always willing to believe the Democrats will really hold the football this time, and so we always wind up on our backs, shocked and surprised after the predictable reversion to form.
So let’s not be surprised this time! Let’s prepare ourselves for their sudden and inevitable doubling down.
The Democrat Party will inevitably conclude that: we didn’t sell our message well enough to overcome the disinformation in rightwing media. We need to do it faster and harder.
Our job will be to stay calm and focused. Stay calm, and slice corporate media into ribbons. More on that soon.
I have no doubts they won’t solve their problems because their ideology is the problem. As long as they are themselves, they will not change course. They believe (some actually do) that climate change is real, so the entire economy of the country (but not that of China or India) needs to be wrecked so it will be all better. They still believe the feelings of seriously mentally ill people should drive national policy. They believe the United States should be the only nation on earth that has NO BORDERS and no control over who enters or what they choose to do. All of this added up to the most failed, disastrous and incompetent regime this nation has ever seen, the Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden regime.
Anyone running on elongating THAT nightmare was doomed to failure. It wouldn’t have mattered if it was the mummy himself or Kamala, NO ONE was feeling, “THANK YOU, SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER!”, like the frat initiation scene in Animal House. Unless and until the PARTY (not an individual) says, “That was bad, it was a disaster, we are going to change that and never do it again” they will fail and fail again (except in Illinois, New York and California).
Republicans have a plan going forward. It’s called “J.D. Vance, DeSantis, Ramaswami”. There are some women, I’m sure, that can step up as well. In fact, 2028 may be contentious because there IS so much talent available; someone is just going to have to wait their turn.
The Demo-Rats drive off the Cliff into the Canyon
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!