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Why is the Left Having a Nervous Breakdown?

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But I have news for them. It’s not at all about Trump. It’s about them.

Trump is what the shrinks call the ‘presenting complaint.” The real problem, as is often the case in psychotherapy, is something entirely different. And it is this: the left is dead. It’s not only dead, it’s decomposed with no there there or anywhere.

Only dopes or con artists believe in socialism anymore (hello, Venezuela!) and identity politics has been exposed as the racist shell game it is with blacks and Latinos actually doing better than they have in decades under the current pro-capitalist administration.

So the left has nothing to say, only most of them don’t quite realize it yet. But this blockage, this reluctance and even inability to deal with what is actually happening shuts down the brain and emerges as anger, the hamster wheel of constant rage against Trump.

And that, of course, feeds on itself, as we have seen for the past year and a half, making matters worse, not just for the obvious reason – the aforementioned alienation of the public – but for what it does to their own minds.

Anger makes you stupid. When is the last time you heard a creative idea coming out of the left? (Herbert Marcuse? Okay, scratch that.) When is the last time they even debated the issues in a serious way rather than simply hurling invective or worse?
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https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/why-the-left-is-having-a-nervous-breakdown/

Indeed. The response to really good news for Trump with lower unemployment, higher GDB growth, lower taxes, and lower regulations has been to gin up a bunch of nonsense about some other issues, like immigration. Like the fact that Trump is doing what Obama did at the border. They can't face reality. We ought to ignore them until they do.

Meanwhile, according to polls, the public is with Trump on the immigration issues. They think that illegals should be deported or detained, period. More unbearable reality for the Democrats.

The day that they are waiting for, where they win the Congress in the election, is not coming. Now that they have completely destroyed the comity and civility of public life they ought to think about how they are going to survive.
 
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LowDown said:
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/why-the-left-is-having-a-nervous-breakdown/

Indeed. The response to really good news for Trump with lower unemployment, higher GDB growth, lower taxes, and lower regulations has been to gin up a bunch of nonsense about some other issues, like immigration. Like the fact that Trump is doing what Obama did at the border. They can't face reality. We ought to ignore them until they do.

Meanwhile, according to polls, the public is with Trump on the immigration issues. They think that illegals should be deported or detained, period. More unbearable reality for the Democrats.

The day that they are waiting for, where they win the Congress in the election, is not coming. Now that they have completely destroyed the comity and civility of public life they ought to think about how they are going to survive.
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All we have here is an opinion piece. Which is fine, but the real discussion is political response to an opposing party in the majority and what happens with independents. Because we are headed into a midterm all eyes are on what Independents do in terms of giving Trump a favorable Congress for the next 116th or allow it to flip.

Now Immigration is another matter.

No, all the polls suggest is that Immigration should be enforced (i.e. not have open borders.) However the polls also suggest that family separation is extremely unpopular, and the "great great" wall ends up right down political ideology lines with Independents not being enough to side with Trump on this.

This issue of family separation, even if done to some extent under Obama, created a wedge issue. It would be foolish for Democrats to not see how Independents may look at this in terms of the needed support headed into October.

Democrats also know that in better economic times it is difficult to flip Congress, it makes sense that Immigration is arguably now the #1 issue of the midterms.

In case you forgot, Republicans tried something similar using another wedge issue(s) to deal with taking Congress away from Democrats during Obama's first term in office. And for the House it worked.

Sources:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx
https://news.gallup.com/poll/1660/immigration.aspx
https://news.gallup.com/poll/235793/record-high-americans-say-immigration-good-thing.aspx
https://news.gallup.com/poll/235775/americans-oppose-border-walls-favor-dealing-daca.aspx
 
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