If President Donald Trump is re-elected next November, he’ll owe a lot of his victory to the army of activists working tirelessly to put him over the top. No, I’m not talking about the red-hatted MAGA crowd, tireless as they are. I’m talking about the army of leftist activists whose nonstop craziness is moving moderates into the Trump column day by day.
Anti-Trump conservative Rod Dreher shares a letter from a reader who notes the unpersoning of feminist Posie Parker (her crime: not believing that transwomen are women) and the recent attacks on the Salvation Army and writes: “I have never voted for a Republican for president, and I can’t stand Trump. But the ‘Tolerant Left’ is making me so angry with them that I am thinking of voting for him. Since I live in Massachusetts the Electoral College makes it irrelevant, but it would be a protest vote.”
Likewise, since the Democrats’ the-mountain-labored-and-brought-forth-a-mouse impeachment circus began, Trump has moved to a net-positive in one poll, picked up a lot of moderate voters and moved into the lead in swing states like Wisconsin. The assault on Trump brings to mind the old saying about wrestling with a pig — you get dirty, and the pig likes it.
Democrats had one simple task
All the Democrats had to do was not be crazy, and they couldn’t even do that. They started out after the last election demanding that Donald Trump not be “normalized” as president — and then proceeded to act as abnormally as possible. Weirdly, this strategy seems to be backfiring.
The conventional wisdom has always been that when you lose an election you accept it — thereby showing your loyalty to the American system — and endeavor to show the voters that you’re worthy of being elected next time. That involves working with the other party where you can, to show that you put the good of the country first, and acting sensible and responsible the rest of the time. That, to put it mildly, is not the approach the Democrats have chosen.
The current impeachment clown show was not made more credible by the fact that his opponents began talking impeachment even before President Trump was sworn in to office.
Nor has the endless talk of Trump’s opposition as “the Resistance,” as if 2019 America were equivalent to France in 1940, done a lot for credibility. When much of the opposition to Trump comes across as fantasy role-play by people who didn’t get enough validation in high school, it robs the entire enterprise of its seriousness.
We’ve been told repeatedly that Trump is Hitler, even as he backed Israel in the UN and moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. We’ve been told that Trump is a Putin puppet even as he sold anti-tank missiles to Ukraine (something Obama never did) and championed fracking in the United States, the success of which has done more to weaken Putin than anything the Obama/Hillary “reset” ever managed. (You could make a better case that the current Democratic candidates who vow to ban fracking are Putin puppets than you could for Trump.)
This isn’t just the fringes of the party, it’s the mainstream
And even beyond the “resistance,” the left in general seems determined to move as many moderates into the Trump camp as possible. In left-leaning Howard County, Maryland, the school board adopted a 1970s style busing program over the objections of constituents. This despite the fact that comments on the bill were overwhelmingly negative. The board then scolded the community for its opposition.
All over the country, universities are going crazy over anonymous fliers that read, simply, “It’s okay to be white.” This, we’re told, is a hate crime, and the FBI is investigating to find the perpetrators.
At this year’s Harvard/Yale game “climate protesters” took over the field and delayed play. As double Ivy League alumnus (Dartmouth and Yale) Roger L. Simon writes, the level of idiocy there is making him think we should abolish the Ivy League as unserious. “In the middle of this year’s Harvard-Yale game, the great activistes spewed out onto the field to demand, what else, action on climate change — delaying the game for over an hour. But all these Ivy League smarty-pants couldn’t come up with a slogan more original than ‘Hey hey, ho ho, fossil fuels have got to go.’ Who’d they learn that from, their grandparents? Decades ago, during Vietnam, it was ‘Hey hey, ho ho, LBJ has got to go.'”
Like I said, it’s fantasy role-play, in this case by people sad that they were born too late for the 1960s.
It’s true, there is a huge number of Dems who are voting for Trump.
If you follow Trump 2020 Campaign Manager Brad Parscale on Twitter, he does demographic questions of all attendees at Trump rallies.
Tweets by parscale
So, the latest was the FLA “Homecoming” rally.
24% of the crowd was Democrat and 27% of the crowd was Hispanic.
At the Nov 4th rally in Kentucky:
23% Democrat.
And on and on.
One wonders how many of the courageous members of the “Resistance” there would be if, as with those resisting a German occupation of France, discovery meant being hanged with piano wire? These people disgrace every entity they try to appropriate.
The support for Democrat outrage over losing an election they had assured themselves, with the corruption, fraud and 95% of the media, they would win shows the width and breadth of crybabydom in the US. Spoiled, entitled, whiny spoiled brats cannot see past the ongoing term to the next election and, instead, cry, scream and stomp their feet to try and get their way. We are told that the only way to restore civility is to elect Democrats so they will stop disrupting civil discourse and polite society. Is that really the kind of behavior we want to reward.