Congratulations, America! We did it!
We avoided fascism! HOORAY!
Now what?
I guess it’s time to hope Republicans have not only been lying about Democrats and liberals for the past four years but also lying about THEMSELVES in the process!
Every pea-brained take artist and their mother wants the Dems to somehow appeal to the Trump voter and the Trump Party while simultaneously reaching a magical world of harmonious compromise and American unity and other fairytale pipedreams we’ve been spoonfed since 9/11.
“Why can’t we just be how we all were on September 12th?”
Well, Susan, perhaps because one side of the country would like to achieve economic equality and universal healthcare while the other half openly wishes for Orange Hitler to be their forever-Führer to helm the never-ending struggle of Owning The Libs at every critical American flashpoint.
Or perhaps socialists? Yeah, it’s definitely their fault. What a bunch of cucks.
As evidenced by the outpouring of disdain and hatred toward the “radical left” of the Democratic Party, it appears the leaders want to continue chairing this fossilized caucus from atop their perches of Jurassic Park. In spite of overwhelming support for landmark progressive policies that galvanized Democratic voters during the 2018 midterms and the start of the primary, the DINOs believe simply restoring normalcy and unity within the government is good enough.
Meanwhile, McConnell prepares his flamethrower. The target: the 2020 election results, or at the very least the final two Senate seats up for grabs in Georgia.
As wonderfully quaint and positively freeing the experience of knowing Donald Trump is on his way out of the White House has been for me personally, I’m now realizing that indeed the centrists and moderates afraid of their owns shadows were 100,000% wrong for betting on the middle of the road.
Instead of embracing a new era of politics and embracing the ever-changing and left-leaning electorate, the Fossils are content with praying Daddy Turtle Man stops the whippings and allows them back to the kids table for supper like the good ol’ days.
That strategy never works.
In fact, that strategy is the very reason why Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are suddenly the Democrats’ only hope of winning the Senate. It’s the same reason why the House’s 35-seat majority will become more of a 10-15 seat lead.
People were concerned that Trump’s presence would haunt the party once he finally left, that there would be little reason for progressives and moderates to remain a united front. And while that is true to an extent, it’s the still wrong takeaway.
The party has enjoyed its greatest successes when pushing liberal policies that eventually become concrete legislation: The New Deal, Social Security, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Obamacare, etc. When the party fails, they try to bring in moderate Republicans, good hard-working people you’d see in old Marlboro ads wrangling bulls on the frontier who constantly tell any field reporter willing to stick a microphone in their face that the Democrats suddenly “don’t speak for me anymore”, how they’ve “changed” and “lost their way”.
Almost 99.9999% of the time, these same concerned working-class heroes will lament the loss of America’s dignity and culture, our “values” if you will.
These people will not vote for you.
You could raise Ronald Reagan from the dead, slap a big blue D on his rotted skull and stick a voice box in him parroting this very sentiment and these worried white folks will still vote for the Republican.
Why drink Diet Coke when you can have the Coke with the real cocaine?
Schumer, Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, Abigail Spanberger, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg…
Throw out any centrist and you’ll find they all express the same fears that those so-called rural white people echo when mourning THEIR Democrat Party. The only difference appears to be that they will still support their colleagues…publicly.
Otherwise, they’re the same.
They may not support Donald Trump and his open fascism, but they sure do hate the hell out of the left. It’s ironic, too, when you consider that the only reason Democrats broke free from their segregationist past was thanks to socialist agendas. Now, socialism is apparently the reason why they lose. Not their aggressively-homogenous group of stock photo models for candidates or their disregard for popular policy. To them, FDR’s party struggles because of AOC and Bernie. You know, a freshman congresswoman and an old Jew from Brooklyn.
How dangerous.
There is no difference between moderate-centrist milquetoast Dems and Republicans. They’ll tell you “woke people” to “take a nap” while sitting in their country club estate taking a “$100 sip” of some fine liquor and becoming an unintentional conservative rallying cry on Twitter. All wish to return to a power structure designed to prop up mediocre middle-aged white men (and occasional women) while keeping the rest out of sight and out of mind.
No amount of virtue signaling can disguise this ugly truth.
Joe Biden is the President now, but the DINOs still run the park.
And pretty soon, just like the original dinos, they’ll be history.
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