The Democrats’ Dangerous Gong Show

The Democrats’ Dangerous Gong Show | Frontpage Mag
By Bruce Thornton ~~ Democratically elected people’s assemblies historically have been known for their mediocrity, and the U.S. has been no different. The great champion of American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville, in 1835 observed, “I was surprised to find so much distinguished talent among the citizens and so little among the heads of the government. It is a constant fact that at the present day the ablest men in the United States are rarely placed at the head of affairs,” a condition that worsens the more democratic the government becomes.... But over the last decade, the ineptitude of our Congressmen has increased dramatically, to the point that today Congress looks like the green room for the Gong Show. The last midterm especially brought to Washington some representatives whose abject ignorance of even basic math is astonishing, and whose embrace of ideas hostile to the American Constitutional order are frightening. More troubling, some of them have become the de facto leaders of the Democrat progressives, the mangy tail that today is wagging the already scrofulous dog. The possibilities for entertainment are many, but so are the dangers to our Republic.... AOC, on the other hand, represents the “future” of the Democrats, still advertised as “the emerging Democratic majority,” as a 2002 book of that name called it, comprising women, minorities, and the college-educated. This new coalition was supposed to do what Thomas Jefferson did to the Federalists in 1800–– “sink federalism into an abyss from which there will be no resurrection for it,” as he accurately predicted. The election of Barack Obama seemingly confirmed the Dems’ optimism, and his carefully groomed successor, Hillary Clinton, promised to continue Obama’s “fundamental transformation of America.”
Donald Trump, of course, stood athwart this “arc of history” yelling “Hell, no!” As the progressives tell the tale, Trump was carried aloft by the racist resentment of white working-class “bitter clingers” and “deplorables.” Colluding with the Rooskies to steal votes, and enabled by the undemocratic remnants of “white supremacism” like the Trump has slowed the assault for now, but we can’t let the buffoonery of the Democrats lull us into complacency. The stakes of failure are too high.

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Unless voter fraud is addressed and eliminated and the illegal invasion repelled followed by massive deportations and an end to birthright citizenship and chain migration, you are absolutely right. Fraud is what determines who rules tyrannical governments, and demographics are destiny.
If Donald Trump cannot deliver on the Wall, he will not be re-elected in 2020. The Progressive Marxist Socialist Left knows this, and that is why Chuckie and Pelosi are fighting it with tooth and nail.
Perhaps he will accept the $1.3 billion, and then follow that up with the declaration of a national emergency, and building the rest of it. I agree with Senator Cruz, we should use El Chapo money an estimated $14 Billion to build the wall. I would bet my bippy that if the PMS Leftist Dems win in 2025 they'd tear it down, at the first opportunity. Actually Trump is silently building the wall. Just as Obama did not require Congress to ratify the Iran Deal or send the $1.7 Billion and a $400 million ransom in cash during the middle of night.

"As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind?" ~~ Federalist Papers, No. 63, 1788

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