Victor Davis Hanson › American Greatness
"The more violence, Nazi-invective, and sheer craziness the left can instill—storming church services, ramming ICE vehicles, taking over the streets, or boasting of armed resistance—the more they believe that voters will blame not them, the instigators, but Trump, the target of their insurrectionary madness.
"Recent regional special elections have seen Democratic candidates win a number of special election races.
"Now energized left-wing politicos remind the nation daily that every incumbent president, except three over the last century, has suffered substantial midterm losses in Congress.
"Polls show Trump suffering an average 11-point negative unfavorability rating.
"So Democrats promise to soon stop all new legislation and end Trump and his counterrevolution itself.
"But the left will never offer any alternative agenda on the economy, the border, crime, or foreign policy.
"Instead, the new Democrat-Socialist Party views the Biden disaster of 2021-2024 not as a result of his puppeteers’ toxic policies of open borders, 21 percent aggregate inflation, dead-end green energy subsidies, DEI mandates, trans fixations, and an appeasing foreign policy that led to wars abroad and emboldened China.
"Instead, they now blame those catastrophic years on Biden’s own enfeebled state—as if he were merely a hapless, debilitated messenger for their otherwise superb radical message.
"So absent a positive agenda, Democrats will simply run all their state and federal campaigns as if Trump, their Satanic monster, is on every ballot.
" 'Their Trump obsessions result in three now well-worn strategies.
"The first, of course, is still more chaos.
"The left believes that the unending 2020 riots cost Trump the election.
"Ever since, they have sought to concoct a nihilist replay—whether the Tesla hysterias, the perpetual threats of government shutdowns, tough-guy talk of open insurrection against the federal government, or the current, performative-art, anti-ICE violence in Minneapolis.
"They concede most Americans still support Trump’s closed borders and legal-only immigration, but hope they want a return to “normalcy” even more." Full article...
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