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| VDH: The Progressive Boomerang |
| 2017-06-29 |
| [TownHall] The progressive strategy of investigating President Donald Trump nonstop for Russian collusion or obstruction of justice or witness tampering so far has produced no substantial evidence of wrongdoing. The alternate strategy of derailing the new administration before it really gets started hasn't succeeded either, despite serial efforts to sue over election results, alter the Electoral College vote, boycott the inauguration, delay the confirmation of appointments, demand recusals, promise Trump's impeachment or removal through the 25th Amendment, and file suit under the Emoluments Clause. A third strategy of portraying Trump as a veritable monster likewise so far has failed in four special elections for House seats. Apparently progressives have accepted the idea that Barack Obama's formula of twice winning the Electoral College is not yet transferrable to other progressive candidates such as Hillary Clinton. And they probably have concluded that Obama's progressive political agenda proved unpopular with voters by 2010 and had to be implemented by ad hoc executive orders -- presidential prerogatives now utilized by Donald Trump to overturn the ones Obama issued. A fourth potential pathway to power would be a return to Bill Clinton's pragmatic agendas of the 1990s. But apparently progressives find that centrist remedy worse than the malady of losing elections -- given that during the Obama tenure, more than 1,000 state and local offices were lost to Republicans, in addition to majorities in the House and Senate, and a majority of governorships and legislatures. What next? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Rather, the lesson is that progressives should have offered alternative political visions that might have won back the American people rather than attempting to terminate the Trump presidency on charges to which the progressive side was far more vulnerable. Alternative vision? You mean like open borders, unrestricted immigration from the Middle East, constant meddling in the Middle East, rust belt unemployment, trillion dollar stimuli, single payer, Planned Parenthood subsidies? That kind of vision? I don't think that's gonna work anymore either. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-06-29 10:33 |
| #3 Think they've that much foresight, p2k? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-06-29 10:12 |
| #2 ..and Civil War. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-06-29 08:31 |
| #1 What next? Assassination? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-06-29 03:34 |