“Even in a state as deeply blue as this, Democrats’ disdain for the basic values and interests of their own base could unravel their now seemingly unbridgeable majority. At some point, parents, artists, minorities, small business people and even sex workers will not be mollified sufficiently by a fulsome expression of good intentions. If more voters begin to realize that many of the policies being adopted are injurious, they may even begin to look again at the Republicans, particularly once the toxic President Trump is no longer on the ballot scaring the masses to toe the line.”
Kotkin has very clear vision though he suffers from the same fantasy that Trump is “scaring the masses” as do many others.
And as an aside, isn’t funny how we were labeled as having a psychosis and being racists for expressing fear over Obama’ autocratic Leftism but of course having fear of Trump is considered the proper response?
Kotkin is right that the Leftward turn of the Democratic Party’s activist and officeholder core is a problem but he is wrong to assume that a significant part of the Democrat coalition will notice and vote another way.
We know this because across the world Leftists generally remain Leftists even after getting their way and destroying the countries in which they live.
Democrat’s Leftward turn problematic, is reform possible?
Self-described Truman-Democrat Joel Kotkin wrote, in a piece in the Orange County Register headlined “Democrats risk blowback with Leftward turn:”
“Even in a state as deeply blue as this, Democrats’ disdain for the basic values and interests of their own base could unravel their now seemingly unbridgeable majority. At some point, parents, artists, minorities, small business people and even sex workers will not be mollified sufficiently by a fulsome expression of good intentions. If more voters begin to realize that many of the policies being adopted are injurious, they may even begin to look again at the Republicans, particularly once the toxic President Trump is no longer on the ballot scaring the masses to toe the line.”
Kotkin has very clear vision though he suffers from the same fantasy that Trump is “scaring the masses” as do many others.
And as an aside, isn’t funny how we were labeled as having a psychosis and being racists for expressing fear over Obama’ autocratic Leftism but of course having fear of Trump is considered the proper response?
Kotkin is right that the Leftward turn of the Democratic Party’s activist and officeholder core is a problem but he is wrong to assume that a significant part of the Democrat coalition will notice and vote another way.
We know this because across the world Leftists generally remain Leftists even after getting their way and destroying the countries in which they live.