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| The TrigglyPuff Party: How Democrats Created Insane ‘Social Justice' Mobs |
| 2018-10-14 |
| h/t Instapundit Warning there is a really scary video at the top of the link Commenting on the irrational female rage unleashed by the Kavanaugh confirmation circus, Stephen Green remarks: "The Democrats have worked hard to lock down the Trigglypuff vote, but at what cost of even slightly more moderate voters?" But do such voters really exist? We are more than 25 years into a cycle of increasing polarization that arguably began with Bill Clinton’s election as president. Clinton’s radicalism ‐ remember the so-called "assault weapons" ban? ‐ sparked a backlash that cost Democrats the control of the House that they’d held for 40 years. Everything thereafter increased the partisan divide: The budget standoff that led to the government shutdown, the Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment crisis, the Florida recount in 2000, the Iraq War, the recapture of Congress by Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats, Obama’s election in 2008, the Tea Party movement, on and on. It is not the case that America’s politics have become more divisive because the Republican Party has moved further right. Liberal pundits, commenting from within their ideological cocoons, habitually apply labels ‐ "far right," "extremist," "white nationalist," etc. ‐ to depict the GOP as beholden to a dangerous fringe, but this is just paranoid propaganda. The typical Republican voter in 2018 is actually no more "extreme" than his father was in 1988. Nor is the policy agenda of the GOP now any more "far right" than it was in the presidency of Ronald Reagan. The cause of the increased partisan divide is not that the Republicans have moved right, but that Democrats have moved left. What happened, when did it happen and why did it happen? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #1 More than you wanted to know about Trigglypuff. |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2018-10-14 15:35 |