Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Learned Nothing, Forgotten Nothing

Historian Victor Davis Hanson, writing at the American Greatness website, surveys the Democrats' chances in 2020 and concludes:
The Democratic Party has learned nothing and forgotten nothing. It is doubling down on exactly what lost it the Blue Wall.
Namely, it has forgotten that class based solidarity is a better choice for attaining an electoral majority than is identity group-based solidarity. Let's hope they continue to pursue losing strategies, eh?
The argument that Trump, the man, is so beyond moral redemption that Trump’s agenda is irrelevant will not fly with those who feel that they are already better off than in 2016.
And who feels that? Most of us who are here legally. Why? The economy reacts positively to a President who isn't suspicious of, or opposed to, wealth creation. And Trump's raft of conservative federal judges will be a long-lasting brake on the cultural revolution.