by Richard Truesdell and Keith Lehmann
Either Democrats reject this nonsense or their party is finished as well.
It was a wild ride. Imagine defunding the police, or insisting that a man can become a woman, that our very existence is killing Planet Earth, that driving an electric car is proof of your goodness, or that anyone having traditional American values is a racist bigot. Just imagine.
The Progressive movement has taken various forms over the past 60 years but it was always rooted in revolution. “Revolution against what?” you might ask. To paraphrase the great Thomas Sowell, it is a revolution against everything that works and in favor of what sounds good today. Open borders, transgenderism, “renewable” energy, white supremacy—these are just a sampling of the radicalism on full display that has proven to be an abject failure among the U.S. population.
It failed because it was all based on lies. When your entire platform is centered around lies, eventually people become wise to it. We are at that moment.
To understand why the Progressive movement has failed, one only needs to look at the Kamala Harris campaign for president in 2024. At its core, the campaign had entirely too many flaws and a boatload of dishonesty for it to be pulled off.
A big flaw was the candidate herself, an empty pantsuit that brought absolutely nothing to her own campaign except inane word salads, repeating memorized narratives, and proving to be incapable of articulating a single substantive idea for running the country. Showmanship is an important aspect of a political campaign, and Harris was lousy at putting on a show.
But the real reason why voters are rejecting Harris was the avalanche of lies. An avalanche of lies that the enablers in the mainstream media were all too happy to parrot.
Democrats expected voters to sign up for a campaign that was deceitfully hollow, counting on the insanely dishonest notion that the last four years did not happen (never mind what you experienced) and that this was a “new way forward.” A new way forward to where? Unprecedented inflation not seen in 60 years? A southern border that is as porous as a sieve. An economy that has many Americans feeling left behind.
Legitimate questions on policy specifics that seem to have veered wildly from day to day were met with a dumbfounding “My values have not changed.” What is that supposed to mean?
Democrat voters might be paying a lot more for groceries and gasoline. They probably can’t afford to buy a home. Their local market now has Plexiglas covering much of the merchandise due to rampant shoplifting that goes unpunished. But hey, the Democrats got Beyonce, Taylor Swift, and Bruce Springsteen telling people to vote for four more years of this! And if they object even in the slightest, Democrat voters will be reminded by the Obamas of how much they disappoint them.
Sensing that they were not going to close the deal through deceit, deception, star power, and intimidation, the Democrats decided to break the glass and pull the handle: Trump is Hitler. And now half the American electorate is seen as garbage according to the current Divider-in-Chief, Joe Biden. And now a buffoonish billionaire, Mark Cuban, says that the women around Trump are weak and dumb.
We all know how that worked out. People don’t want to be told that they are Nazis, that they are garbage, or that, in the case of Republican women, they are stupid.
Playing the Trump is Hitler card is old-school demagoguery by the Democrats like The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum, having been pulled on just about any Republican occupying the presidency or seeking it for the past forty years or so. The trouble with playing the Trump is Hitler card in 2024 is this: People believe it is sheer nonsense to accept that he will be an authoritarian Nazi in a second term when he didn’t demonstrate such capacities in his first term.
Did he arrest his political enemies? No. Did he vilify half the country as “existential threats” to democracy? No. Did he weaponize agencies of the U.S. government against its citizens? No. In fact, many say that he was too lenient with spreaders of election denialism, like Hillary Clinton.
The Biden-Harris administration did all of those, plus they spiked inflation and opened the U.S. border, allowing everyone in the world to enter at taxpayer expense. Then they insisted it was either not happening, or if it was happening, it was Trump’s fault.
Much of the Democrat leadership and just about all of the legacy media don’t understand everyone’s desire, Republicans and Democrats alike, to enjoy a higher quality of life. Nobody wants more rules, more restrictions, more censorship, less wealth, less security, and fewer choices in life.
All of the legitimate concerns Democrat voters have over the massive influx of illegal migrants in their communities, the weakening of law enforcement, the tolerance of social disorder, the illogical push toward racial and gender preferences in all walks of life, and the war waged on oil and natural gas in the name of “climate change” have been tossed to the side by Democrat leaders. And these voters are fed up.
Just because the Democrats and legacy media push narratives to support their Progressive values and force-feed them down the throats of the public does not mean voters are going to comply. They’re now finding this out in real time.
As mentioned, it was a wild ride for the past twenty-plus years. Harris has gone down in flames. Let’s hope that the Progressive movement goes with her.
Richard Truesdell and Keith Lehmann
Source: https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/10/the-progressive-movement-is-finished/
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