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How the inevitability of the Permanent Democratic Majority collapsed


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2018 Oct 16, 9:23am   906 views  1 comment

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Supposedly, changing demography, massive illegal immigration, and identity politics had preordained a permanent 51 percent “Other” whose minority statuses, as defined by gender and race, had now become a majority, given the destined demise of the white working classes. If Obama had not existed, someone like Corey Booker, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, or Kirsten Gillibrand was supposedly foreordained to be president anyway.

But while Obama sermonized about our predestined “arc of history” and how its moral curve bent this way and that, he managed to lose both his supermajority in the Senate and the House itself by 2011. By 2015, the Senate lost its Democratic majority.

Ruling by pen-and-phone executive order only took the country more leftward. And it came at the price of stagnating the economy, acerbating social, cultural, and racial differences, raising taxes, and recalibrating foreign policy.

Obama bequeathed to his successors neither a popular progressive record nor a robust economy nor a stellar foreign-policy success. If he did ensure massive minority voting registration and bloc voting, that served largely himself — and came at the cost of alienating independents and the working classes. In other words, Obama most certainly did pass on to his successors the downside of his polarizing sermonizing and divisiveness, but not the upside of record minority turnout and uniform voting.

Progressives once thought that Obama was their godhead and their assured pathway to permanent power. In those heady days of 2009, the American system of government was still deemed wonderful. Conservatives were bitter dead-enders, and the country was in the process of being fundamentally “transformed.” Basking in the rites and rituals of her role as first lady, Michelle Obama had finally learned, by her own admission, to be proud of her country.

But then with the loss of local, state, and federal legislative power, progressives grew understandably bitter. Never had so much been promised and so little delivered. And they began to recalibrate Obama the erstwhile savior as mostly a narcissist who had thrived while emasculating his followers.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/progressive-agony-democrats-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court/

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1   clambo   2018 Oct 17, 6:56am  

I know some foreigners who came to the USA.

While they are generally anti-Trump they are also not so clueless sometimes about socialism. They often understand that because the USA isn't yet entirely socialist they can make money here and not at home.

Some of them can vote and don't all universally vote Democrat.

I know others who are Mexican-American over 40 and they're not entirely liberal Democrats either. I also know some younger blacks who are not liberal Democrats.

The politicians mistake that voters always care what they say; sometimes voters observe who they are and think they're full of shit (e.g. Hillary)

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