by Jeff Childers
The Wall Street Journal ran a depressed article yesterday headlined, “How a Splintered Left Is Preparing for a Possible Trump Victory.” Sprinkled with d-words, like “dreading,” “dismayed,” and “despair,” the article began with advice from a random far-left psychologist. He advised that, if Democrats’ selected candidate isn’t elected, “don’t panic.” The Times quoted its ‘expert’ as opining, “A Trump presidency would be awful, but not the end of history.”
The article reminded Journal readers that, after Trump’s election in 2016, the so-called “Resistance” movement electrified Dems and gave them something to do with their time. But there’s a new problem this cycle.
The Dems new problem is even bigger than trying to psychologically prepare themselves for the heretofore unimaginable defeat of the fakest candidate in American history. No, the WSJ observed a much worse problem: how shallow and uncertain the Democrats’ bench is:
Somehow, 2016’s “#Resistance” movement has “already splintered, with clashes between hard-edge progressive and moderates driving out some key leaders.” It’s almost like someone has run a kind of color revolution against the Democrats, exploiting the weaknesses inherent in a political party patched together from dozens of separate victim groups with competing priorities.
Read the whole article. It was encouraging to hear from the article’s bunch of 2016 anti-Trump activists who now seem much less fired-up about a possible Trump victory, and more drained, dispirited, and disillusioned. The Journal’s description of Democrat enervation was the exact opposite of the joyful energy and excitement beaming into space from Madison Square Garden yesterday.
For some encouraging statistics, here’s a short WSJ video linked to this article that finds momentum turning toward the former President across a whole bunch of metrics: CLIP: Trump Takes Lead Over Harris, WSJ Poll Finds (3:41).
