The libertarian left has repeatedly boasted over the past few years of the inevitability of History’s destruction of every corner of American social conservatism. Election Day 2015 was a terrible day for these revolutionaries, as is often the case when decisions are made by the American people, not liberal elites.
Let’s assess the damage:
– In Kentucky, modern Republican Gov. Matt Bevin won despite proudly taking on the case of national official Kim Davis, a clear rebuke to the cultural agenda of imposing same-sex “marriage” on every conservative Christian jurisdiction.
– In Virginia, two GOP state senate candidates were targeted by liberal billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s group Everytown for Gun Safety. One won and the other lost, leaving the state senate in Republican hands.
– The city of Houston crushed outgoing leftist Mayor Annise Parker, voting overwhelmingly (61 to 39 percent) to reject “HERO” Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance, a 31-page package of gibberish that, among other things, would have fined businesses up to $5,000 for refusing to allow men who “identify” as women to operate women’s restrooms.
– Ohio rejected marijuana legalization by a 2 to 1 majority. “Issue 3” would legalize recreational marijuana for people over 21 and medicinal marijuana for people of all ages with a doctor’s note. Some “progressives” did not like the provision allowing a monopoly system for farmers for the first four years.
Even in ultra-liberal San Francisco, the sheriff who steadfastly defended the city’s outrageous “sanctuary city” policy after Kate Steinle was murdered by an illegal immigrant failed.
One journalist correctly (mostly) analyzes the election, and it’s worth noting that this comes from The Atlantic, certainly a liberal place.
In her article “Liberals Are Losing the Culture Wars,” Molly Ball acknowledges that the left may be trying to undermine the results, stating that this was “an off-year election in which turnout was abysmally low, and which was held in only a handful of locations. But liberals who cite this as an explanation often fail to take the next step and ask themselves why the most consistent voters are consistently hostile to their views, or why liberal social positions fail to mobilize voters who do not vote often.”
There is clearly a “passion gap” between the secular left and the religious right. Conservatives are mobilizing, energized by rising liberal authoritarianism since the last presidential election, while the left calls “religious freedom” in scare quotes.
Ball offers an analysis that goes far beyond the conventional liberal media “wisdom” that the Republican Party is torn between a religious right determined to commit political suicide with its former position and a country club establishment that understands it’s time to give up.
Ball said the GOP’s divisions show “an ideologically flexible big-tent party while Democrats cling to an agenda whose popularity they too often do not question.” Democrats want to believe that Americans completely share their radical vision of social change, but they end up losing the election.
There’s a reason liberals always think they’re winning. This is because both “news” reporting and entertainment propaganda continually evangelize for gun safety, marriage equality, legalized marijuana, civil rights protections for transgender people, and unlimited amnesty for illegal immigrants, as if only left-wing positions were acceptable. The only days they get a reality check are election days.
