Democrats Are Overplaying a High-Risk Hand

Member Group : Jerry Shenk

The national Democratic Party’s pretenses of moderation are over. The radical left now defines it.

Democrats have contracted a virulent, radical infection that may prove fatal to the party and, potentially, America. The Democrats’ hard-left base is energized, so, in their desperation to regain majorities and power, the party’s senescent leadership foolishly courts radicals, even though the party’s fever swamp-dwellers are relatively few compared to registered moderate (39 percent) and moderate-conservative (35 percent) Democrats.

Even though most current (and former) traditional and older Democrats are moderate, the modern party not only tolerates, but encourages the febrile political tantrums and cultural finagling of radical-leftists, and allows radicals to formulate policy by default. Media cheerleaders encourage radicals to feel more powerful nationally than they really are.

History teaches that nations have been ruined when minority factions that recognize no limits on government power successfully impose their will on everyone, so Americans will join to defeat the militant left.

The murders by illegal aliens of young Americans Kate Steinle, Mollie Tibbets, Ronald Da Silva, Tessa Tranchant and Sarah Root were all preventable. Regardless, despite such killings, Democrats insist America treats illegal immigrants too harshly, never mind that illegals represent 26 percent of federal prison populations and burden taxpayers.

No one really thinks Democrats want to see young Americans murdered, but if power-hungry Democrats even suspected that immigrants might vote Republican, border walls would have been built decades ago.

Democrats become more radical almost daily. In 2016, avowed socialist Bernie Sanders, who isn’t even a registered Democrat, nearly won the party’s presidential nomination. Even though an energized hard-left minority couldn’t manage Sanders’ nomination, he still influenced the general election outcome.

Partly because she was among the worst, least-competent campaigners in the party’s history, Hillary Clinton secured her nomination only through back room party machinations and the intervention of establishment-influenced convention super-delegates. Nonetheless, Sanders forced Hillary leftward, which undoubtedly contributed to her general election failure.

Mindful of Sanders’ “success” and the party’s recent proscription of super-delegates (first convention ballot only, so window-dressing, really), Democratic contenders for the 2020 nomination will run to Sanders’ left. Some may only be running to build national profiles or shape the party’s longer-term agenda, but their radical posturing will further institutionalize the party’s political, social, cultural and economic immoderation and force their eventual nominee into extreme positions.

The Republican nominee, presumably the president, will exploit an opponent’s extremism. GOP political ads not already “written” during Democrats’ toxic smear campaign against now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh and by hundreds of votes, videos and sound bites will write themselves.

The party’s hard-leftward lurch has alienated its moderates. In a two-party system, Democratic radicalization leaves disaffected rank-and-file Democrats only two practical options – staying home on election day or voting for Republicans, as many did in 2016.

Democrats thought they could sandbag Brett Kavanaugh – and lost. Nonetheless, they’re doubling-down. Their angry mobs have upped the ante, and, now, perhaps only one or two election cycles from going bust, Democrats are overplaying a high-risk hand.

https://www.ldnews.com/story/opinion/2018/10/17/democrats-overplaying-high-risk-hand/1670052002/