Time for the Democrats to Fold up the Tent?

Oh, don’t misunderstand; The Democrats did cherry-pick a few emails they figured would make their case for them, as Matt Margolis explains:

The so-called bombshell consisted of three email exchanges. The crown jewel of their selective leak was a 2011 email between Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in which Epstein described Trump as "the dog that hasn't barked." He noted that a victim had spent hours with Trump at Epstein’s house.

Democrats redacted the victim's name in their release, but we know exactly who they were talking about: Virginia Giuffre. The reason for the redaction becomes clear when you learn what Giuffre has actually said under oath. She has testified that she never witnessed Trump engage in any wrongdoing. She stated that Trump never acted inappropriately with her, that she never saw Trump and Epstein together, and that she never saw Trump at any of Epstein's homes. Her memoir reinforces this point, making abundantly clear that Trump had zero involvement in Epstein's illegal activities.

So in response, Rep. Tim Burchett makes a motion to bring Epstein out to release ALL the files. I have my own problems with him, but credit where it's due. The thing is, the Democrats tried to block it. To me, that speaks loudly to their motivation. In the end, that block was trampled underfoot, thankfully. The GOP released all of them. 

But now, the two major talking points that they've hammered us with relentlessly are now gone. And the result looks quite like a stirred ants' nest, with the ants completely lost and witlessly wandering around looking for some kind of direction. Even at this stage, with all the obvious confusion and, dare I say it, warring within the party, they've come within the last couple of days to understand that the light they've seen at the end of the tunnel is a train. Headed for them. Horn blaring, lights flashing.

In chatting with a friend last night about this, before going to bed, he remarked that there would be far less to write about, given what appears to be the total collapse of the Democrats. “How are you going to fill your columns?” he asked. 

Now, this gent is someone I’ve known for many years, so I admit to being caught off-guard by his question. He apparently didn’t understand that I seldom actually plan to write about anything at all, but am pulled by the gravity of an event and casting what I see into words, as filtered through previous experience. 

In this case, I’ll say that between the files being released (and what they reveal, which decidedly does not advantage Democrats and their claims about Donald Trump) and the shutdown meltdown, they’re closer than ever to that cliff edge. I am reminded of ol’ Snakehead himself, Jim Carville, back in the day, saying of his Democrat party: "The purpose of a political party is to win elections, and we’re not doing that.” 

Gee, Jim. I kind of figured that the purpose of a political party was supposed to be advancing certain moral principles chosen by its members, not dominance by technocratic functionaries who lack any moral center. 

In many years of watching and writing about the swamps in and around D.C., the pattern of the Democrat party’s behavior is clear. What we’re seeing is a pattern that matches Harry Potter’s Voldemort: “There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.” Comical? Perhaps. But go ahead and tell me how what we're seeing isn't meshing precisely with Carville’s statement.

The Democratic Party in years past had much to commend it. That situation, however, has long since ceased to be. Democrats are in trouble today because they have been taken over by the far extreme guano wing of their own party, and refuse to recognize it as such, or else are deathly afraid to make any complaint about it, for fear of being excommunicated from the party. The message has clearly been sent to the rank and file of the Democrat party: lockstep or step off. And increasingly they're doing the latter.

Nobody in the leadership positions of the party (With the possible exception of Pennsylvania's Sen. John Fetterman) dares stand up to the party’s radicals because they recognize they don't have the raw numbers in total to win elections without those radicals. The thing is, they fail to recognize they're not winning, anyway. 

Thus are the Democrats destroying themselves, mostly by holding their silence about what they see. The drubbing they took in the most recent election is directly connected to the extent to which they bow to their extreme left wing.  Any dissent from elite opinion is now a human-rights violation of some kind.  

That’s the game they’ve been playing since the '70s. When they lose, they invariably start bleating about “bipartisanship.” When that cry falls on deaf ears, their tack shifts to what Dale Franks ably described years ago: on the old Q&O blog.

The real problem is not that the Democratic Party’s offerings are unpalatable to a majority of the citizens. The real problem is that majority of citizens, with their sloping foreheads and heavy brow ridges, don’t grasp the scintillating brilliance of progressivism. No, instead, they sit around their caves, banging two rocks together in a futile attempt to make fire, while muttering, “Grog not see how giving Grog’s money to government helps Grog.

(I miss that blog. I'm glad now that I have some fairly extensive archives of my blogging activities of the last 20-some odd years. It's proven very handy indeed.)

Anyway, how they figure that calling over half the voters stupid is going to solve their problems, I have no idea. Transplant this attitude to a place that makes widgets, and imagine the sales meeting: "We'll just tell everyone they're too stupid to buy our product. Yeah, that'll work!"

Or, maybe, they’re just reacting viscerally, without bothering to think that far ahead. And/Or perhaps they’re just angry that all the money they invested in defeating their opponents went directly to the incinerator otherwise known as a “voting booth."

For all the claims of wanting to help the “little guy," it was and remains the self-same “little guy” who has rejected them. Even when the Democrats retained some degree of sanity, the pattern was almost exactly the same. Mona Charen at Townhall, in 2004 (the post is now gone), expressed it this way:

But speaking of the little guy, this election has clarified to a remarkable degree which party is actually the party of ordinary Americans. George Soros, Michael Moore, moveon.org, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Affleck and a few other plutocrats spent a reported $200 million attempting to defeat George W. Bush. They had the energetic assistance of The New York Times, ABC, NBC, NPR, CNN and particularly CBS. They retain (for how much longer is open to question) the power to shape the national debate. But the Bush campaign (guided by the insight of Karl Rove) focused on church-attending, conservative, hard-working middle class Americans whose only form of protest against the power of the mainstream press is to tune in to talk radio and the Internet.” 

Well, yeah, note the subtle shift in response. Those dain brammaged religious folks, they're the problem. "Bitter clingers" was the phrase, I believe. Dale Franks had that part nailed, too.

Of course, the problem is religion. It is the opiate of the people, and serves as the running dog of the capitalist-imperialist forces, by preventing them from examining the truth of the dialectic, thereby preventing them from joining the vanguard of the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat.

Determining the origin of that line of thought isn’t hard for someone who has any understanding of the history of the last 200 or so years. As an aside, that's exactly why I called for the removal of government from the educational process. Simply put, that history isn’t being taught anymore by the government-run schools. Sorry, it just isn’t. 

So we have a party that is not-so-slowly roasting in the bonfire of their own vanity and lack of courage. The chance of a blue wave taking us over seems remote.

The only thing saving the left from complete obliteration now is the idea that if they wait for the Government-educated mobs to reach voting age, they'll be able to scrap everything and declare us a socialist state. The thing is, that's not happening either.

Young Americans are supporting the Republican Party in greater numbers, a new poll has found, highlighting a large divide among people aged under 30.

According to a new Yale Youth Poll, a survey affiliated with the Yale Institution for Social and Political Studies, voters aged 18 to 21 lean Republican by 11.7 points when asked who they would support in the 2026 Congressional elections, while voters aged 22 to 29 favored Democrats by 6.4 points.

Young people traditionally vote for Democrats in elections, but a conservative shift among Gen Z voters helped President Donald Trump secure the keys to the White House in November 2024. If this trend is sustained, partisan realignment could hamper the Democrat's chance of success in future elections and bolster the Republicans instead, reshaping American politics.

Those younger folks are understanding that the claim that Donald Trump, a man who never held public office before this one, can't possibly be at fault for all of America’s problems, and that they were rather caused by the Democrats who have been running things since the 70’s. They've had their eyes opened by recent events and see that it should be noted that the two people most responsible for the government shutdown come from the deepest of deep blue areas: New York City. Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer. They understand all the great problems in the world today, which simply cannot be solved by the people who created them.

And finally, let's consider that a fair number among the Democratic base are living under conditions not unlike what's in the headline picture. How long does anyone figure they're going to vote for the party that was so instrumental in placing them in that situation?  Democrats, particularly those in office making millions of dollars from God only knows where, are talking about defeating poverty and homelessness, and poverty is like Rosie O’Donnell giving out beauty tips.

Of course, the connection between what the people want and the vote counts as questionable at best. Change, you see, is inevitable — except from a voting machine in a blue city.

I’ve said many times over the years that it is time to dissolve the Democratic Party in favor of a group that values sanity. I suggest it is now past time for that event. Not that I expect they’re going to do that, mind, since I’ve been saying this since before Reagan.

So I ask your pardon for the mixed metaphor, but it's not that they're trying to drive around in circles, it's that what they are circling is the drain.