Rich Lowry:
President Barack Obama won’t explicitly say that Donald Trump is on the wrong side of history, but surely he believes it.
The president basically thinks anyone who gets in his way is transgressing the larger forces of history with a capital “H.” In 2008, he declared John McCain “on the wrong side of history right now” (the “right now” was a generous touch — allowing for the possibility that McCain might get right with History at some future date).
Obama has returned to this phrase and argument obsessively. It is deeply embedded in his, and the larger progressive, mind — and indirectly contributed to the Left’s catastrophic defeat on November 8.
The notion that History takes sides is a distant cousin to the Marxoid idea that we are on an inevitable path to socialism, and borrows heavily from the (genuine and very hard-won) moral capital of the abolitionists and civil-rights movement. Obama likes to quote Martin Luther King Jr. for the proposition that the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice. Whoever is considered on “the wrong side of history” by the Left is always loosely associated with the opprobrium of slavery and Jim Crow.
This means that progressives wield History as a weapon, and make it an occasion for constant self-congratulation. But there is a downside in the accompanying sense of smug inevitability that is off-putting at best and blinkered and self-deluding at worst.
For the Left, History is not a vast, unpredictable, untamable force, but has all the characteristics of a stereotypical Whole Foods shopper. History reads the Huffington Post, and follows Lena Dunham on Twitter. It really cares whether transgender people get to use the appropriate bathroom. History was probably hanging out at the Javits Center on election night, and collapsed into a puddle of tears right around the time Wisconsin was called.
The political dangers of this point of view should now be obvious:
It assumes that certain classes of people are retrograde. Why would Democrats bother to try to appeal to working-class white voters if they are stamped with the disapproval of History?
It becomes a warrant for all manner of overreach. History evidently favored trying to get nuns to sign up for contraceptives they didn’t want and forcing small business to bake cakes for gay weddings.
And, if History is thought to have an ascendant electoral coalition (and a hell of a data operation), it creates an unjustified sense of political inevitability. This is what the theorists of the “emerging Democratic majority,” and most pundits on the left, bought into.
The crinimal conseracy of the demacratic mayors of cities naming themselves as sancurys for illegal aliens these mayors and city councils need to be indited for Harboring the Enemy
The ‘correct side of History” how ironic. Back in the days when slavery was being born, was that the correct side of History? When Republicans started trying to free the slaves, were Republicans on the Right side of History? If socialism is the ‘correct side of History’ why is there not now and never has been a successful socialist state? If one side starts losing drastically, is it because they ‘must be’ on the wrong side of History? Is that what caused the devastation amongst the Dimocrats on November 8th? Is that why the Dimocrat party is at it lowest level of office holders in the US since 1920? Yes, I suspect there may actually be a ‘wrong side’ and I think it has now been clearly identified as the losers belonging to the Dimocrat party.
But now, with their new leader Muhammed Ellison, Allah will quickly join their side and get them back on track to be on the ‘right’ side again. Yes, once more, it seems as if the right is right.
The right side of History was working back in 1945 when both Japan and Germany lost their misguided efforts to change the direction of History. Now, an enemy of ‘right’, every bit as bad for the US as either Japan or Germany, the socialist liberals in the US have been contained and almost decimated. It should take them some time to get History headed back into ‘their’ direction once more.
So yes, Obozo may be right, there may be a wrong side and right side to History, and unfortunately for his side, they chose wrong.
While I do not support participants of the “survivor” programs as being true survivors, there are places that can quickly remove the arrogance and condescending behavior of someone. Does it register that most soldiers are conservatives? A famous quote from likely all wars is, “there are no atheists in a fox hole.” Some situations are so very sobering that personalities change within minutes. Maybe the left has become too pampered. Maybe they think they are above the experiences of the deplorable masses. Arrogance and Condescension disappear very quickly when fear strikes the very core of a person. Maybe the left believes their little cocoons surrounding them will always protect them and prolong their surrealistic life.
Actually, they just had an administration and a candidate that were so failed, dishonest and corrupt that the media could not white-wash it. It was arrogant to think they could foist such things on the American people and get clean away with it, though.
The unciviled behavior of the anti-trump crowd of hooligan and heathen monkeys who should just pack up right now and leave maybe cher will give you a ride to jupiter on her star ship SNOWFLAKE