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It's gonna be the Marxist dummshit apparatchik printing press diploma apocalypse. How are all the tranny teachers gonna afford their feather boas?

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/symbolic-nitwits-monday-december

In the short clip, Communist Obamaite Van Jones unironically and emphatically scolded a progressive ally, insisting that “Donald Trump is smarter than all of us.” The clip is amusing enough, but it represents something much bigger, a trend the New Yorker was getting at. Van Jones’ wry, self-deprecating comment manifested a disastrous, deep-ocean political current sweeping progressive confidence out to sea. ...

So when progressives sneer and dismissively call Trump “dumb,” all they achieve is underestimating him and highlighting how unmerited their own arrogance is. Unmerited arrogance, a default assumption of their own moral and intellectual superiority, neatly packaged as “pride,” is the defining characteristic of the modern, pompous progressive brand. ...

Serving as the exception that proves the rule, Van Jones showed remarkable humility in responding to his interviewer’s unbearably arrogant question. As the interviewer waxed eloquent in developing his theme of “how could dumb old Trump do x,” Van visibly grew increasingly uncomfortable. Finally, he interrupted:

Look … Listen. So, so, so, everybody keeps … you have a framework in your mind that ‘how can Donald Trump, how can Donald Trump, how can Donald Trump.’ Guys, can we cut it out? Donald Trump is not an idiot. Let me just be very clear. Donald Trump is smarter than me, you, and all the critics.
You know how we know? Because he has the White House. The Senate. The House. The Supreme Court. The popular vote. A massive media ecosystem bigger than the mainstream built around him and for him. And a political fervor in a political movement around him.
And his best buddy is the richest person in the history of the world, and the most relevant Kennedy is with him.
This dude is a phenomenon! He is the most powerful human on Earth and in our lifetime. And we’re supposed to be saying, “how is this guy?” We look like idiots.

Van Jones represents the leading edge of smart progressive thinking, which is collapsing in real time. Progressives sense something is different this time, which is one reason why the “resistance” has been so muted. But unlike in 2016, in 2024 the conservative victory was so definitive that progressives can’t convincingly dismiss it as luck, or chalk it up to transitory winds of temporary political change that happened to blow the wrong way at the right moment.

The fact is they got shellacked. Progressives, at least more intelligent ones like Jones, Al-Garbi, and the New Yorker’s editors, are grappling with the surreal, astonishing fact that President Trump beat them like a drum. And if he badly beat them, even running circles around them, then by definition he must be smarter than they are.

Here comes the critical point. Since the progressive brand, its identity, is founded in the arrogant assumption of moral and intellectual superiority, progressives are starting to unravel amidst an accelerating identity crisis.

Worryingly, democrat progressives used that arrogant brand identity to stitch together Frankenstein’s political party of dissociated victim groups under a unifying principle they proudly called “woke,” the term itself oozing with arrogance by suggesting woke progressives knew what was really going on while everyone else was intellectually sound asleep. ...

Another far-left progressive quoted by the New Republic, Liza Featherstone, a columnist for Jacobin and The New Republic, was recently a panelist at a New York progressive think tank event. “Like a lot of you, I’m depressed about the election,” Liza began. But after researching the fundamentals and reading Al-Garbi’s latest book, “I came away even more depressed . . . convinced that we, as a class, were politically useless.”

Then Liza really poured on the dark predictions. She said as bad as things were, it was possible that they were about to get much worse. I think it is possible we may witness the complete collapse of progressive politics and a generation in the wilderness for Democrats.

I certainly hope that Democrats and "progressive" politics are consigned to the wilderness, but a generation is not enough. They have been so horrifically EVIL that they should never come back as any kind of political force, ever. Examples:

- promoting genital mutilation of children
- promoting the "right" of adults to sodomize children (looking at psychopath pedo State Sen. Scott Wiener (D) here)
- promoting the dangerous and worse-than-ineffective death jab out of ideological conformity
- promoting hatred of all white people, especially white Christians
- promoting prosecution of real patriots who protested the obvious election fraud of 2020 and were imprisoned by arch-criminal Pelosi with FBI help

And all topped off with a sickening dose of smugness.