The Democrats were tremendously disappointed with the election results. President Donald Trump is losing by almost exactly the 51% to 47% margin that Mitt Romney lost to then-President Barack Obama in 2012. The Senate is poised to stay in GOP hands, and the Republicans look to slice the Democratic House majority to about 10 seats.
Instead of licking wounds, some are asserting that somehow, Democrats are still the stronger party with all the historical momentum. Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. wrote, “Democrats are a big-tent party, while Republicans are a closed circle.”
Dionne claimed, “For more than a half-century, Republicans have purged dissenters and turned themselves into a rigid, radical, unified bloc — ideologically, racially, religiously. As the Republicans cast off free-thinkers, Democrats took them in. This makes Democrats the larger party with better long-term prospects.”
This is an interesting theory, considering that Trump made gains among Latinos and black men. Republicans can easily accuse Democrats of being more rigid, more radical and less religious. The last pro-life Democrat in Congress, Rep. Daniel Lipinski of Illinois, became a purged dissenter in the March primary. In addition to their hostility toward traditional religion, especially on abortion and LGBTQ issues, Democrats are now losing working-class voters with “defund the police” messaging and the lurch to “end fossil fuels.”
Bizarrely, Dionne claims the Republicans are so far gone there’s no debating them: “many debates that once took place between the parties — about, say, the appropriate size of the welfare state, the proper role of economic regulation or the right way to protect the environment — are being held almost entirely within the Democratic Party.”
That argument simply isn’t going to work in reality, not with the current makeup of Congress. It might if the Democrats held two-thirds of the seats, but the margin is thin. You can’t have a one-party policy debate.
Intra-party debate rarely occurs on the liberal “news” channels, where Democratic squabbles are often buried or obscured. Journalists will celebrate Biden as some sort of “moderate” and glorify the socialists, from Sen. Bernie Sanders to “The Squad.” That Biden and the socialists could be classified as the two ideological poles of America might be the media’s dream.
Liberal YouTuber Adam Ragusea informed me on Twitter that “No one describes Biden as the Democratic center. He’s well on the right side of the Democratic party, and has been his whole career.” This seems to ignore the fact that politicians Dionne & Co. often classify as the “moderates” or “conservatives” have an American Conservative Union score of less than 10%.
Journalists will try to downplay the unpopularity of socialism, of ending fossil fuels and defunding police, of endless scolding of “white privilege” and making taxpayers pay for abortions. They will hate that conservatives were elected to block and will work to block every radical nightmare Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to impose.
Amazingly, the Republicans are being granted the broad ground to be the party of people who like the police and the national anthem, who like going to church and driving gas-powered cars, and who think it’s simply wrong-headed to categorize every pale-faced American as irredeemably, systemically racist.
That doesn’t sound like a recipe for a Republican decline and fall. Instead, anyone claiming to be a keen political observer might suggest the parties mirror each other, that we Americans are intensely and quite evenly divided. We are polarized, and the bases of both parties won’t rush to compromise. But liberal journalists such as E.J. Dionne Jr. often forgo keen observations for wishful thinking.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
The BIG tent makes promises to various competing groups and eventually some of those will be disappointed by the results of the legislation that get passed. The fact the the ‘moderates’ did not rein in the wacko leftist seemed to have hurt them in the election. E. J. Dionne Jr.’s assessment is inly partially true, Republican will take a position on a subject and stand by it (for the most part) while Democrats will ask what your opinion is and then agree with you taking you in along with someone else with an exact opposite point of view hoping to satisfy both. That will eventually tear the party apart.
The problem is, with voting being rigged, it may be the end of the two party state. Part of the problem is the RINOS, are partly responsible for the downfall of our society, because they have been in bed with the Democrats and they have been in bed, with all of the corruption, that goes on.
ITS certainly the end of me, ever again, voting straight R ticket..
The Democrats “Big Tent” is so filled with sideshow geeks, freaks, pinheads, clowns, midgets, fat ladies, and bearded ladies, it’s not hard to tell why THE PEOPLE in the peanut gallery are fleeing their cities to prefer to live free in country PUP tents, lean to sheds, and even cardboard boxes than be treated like caged animals for display only as trained seals, toothless lions, or bubble butt baboons who are only medicated and feed when needed for the main donkey show parade in the center ring of media election TV. Their circus Elephants have become an endangered species and are now nowhere to be found having removed their tusks for profit. Their recent election circus performance proves P.T. Barnum correct that “There’s a sucker born every minute” and 75 million every four years who vote democrat in an election snowstorm of Republicans getting buried in a mass icy storm of political snowflakes.
“President Donald Trump is losing by almost exactly the 51% to 47% margin that Mitt Romney lost to then-President Barack Obama in 2012,” according to the article. The fraud in this election brings the results of previous and future elections into question. When the clock strikes thirteen, it is not just the last stroke that is doubtful, but all those that came before.
IMO Romney/obama, was the TEST BED for their election theft machine. They didn’t THINK They would need it for hillary/trump, but once they saw they screwed up, THEY ROLLED IT OUT fullbore, but with COMPLETE COVERING from the media, and the dept of injustice..