With Cruz’s victory in Wisconsin, it is almost certain that the Republican primary will end with the convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Republican Party as we know it will likely end there as well.
Frankly, I’m not worried. Middle America is already squeezed enough between corporate barons and welfare queens. Enough is enough.
If the media weren’t so determined (and consistent) in their quest to belittle Republicans and shame conservatives, we would also know that the Democratic Party is splitting, much like the Titanic sinking under its own overwhelming weight.
Latest Evidence That The SS Democratic Party Is Failing? Weekend at Bernie’s Is Out-Racing Madam Hillary and Just Crushed Her in Wisconsin.
How did he do it? Unlike Clinton, who spent most of her airtime attacking Donald Trump, Sanders attacked Scott Walker. He is the real enemy of liberal Wisconsinites.
You have to give Sanders credit. He’s riding on a consistent (if nonsensical) message: “The rich are getting richer. The poor are getting poorer (not really). The richest 1% are getting richer.”
Blah, blah, blah.
Bernie is also truthful about the true nature of the Democratic Party: statist, self-interested, and socialist.
There was no better diagnosis for the Democratic Party than the one offered earlier this week by Van Jones, the former labor chief forced to resign because enough conservatives were reporting what the mainstream media was ignoring: He was a committed communist.
Jones was direct, and on some issues he was wrong, but his failure to understand the challenging situation his party finds itself in is equally instructive.
On Monday, Van Jones said on CNN:
“Civil war breaks out in the Democratic Party.”
Let’s be clear. This is civil war in the most uncivilized sense: two sides in one organization. After reading for the past four years about the Republican Party exploding among libertarians, evangelicals, and the Big Business wing, I find a more diverse media exposing the deep cracks in a political party that sustains itself with Big Business money.
Jones defined this fight based on one (of many) ethical lapses of Mrs. Hillary Clinton:
“It’s gone from, ‘Hey, you know, I don’t care about your emails, blah, blah, blah. We’re all going to play nice here.’
FBI steps up Email-gate investigation. How about reopening Whitewater and Clinton Foundation investigations? Secretary of State Clinton was hanging out with the highest and most powerful people in the world. Suddenly, all this money from foreign investors started flowing into her eponymous charitable foundation.
Conjecture!
“As it was happening, Bernie Sanders should have gone. Normally, he would have gone.”
We hear the same heated rhetoric from all corners of the GOP (including my humble self). What’s the difference? Republican primary voters know how to count. It’s time for Kasich to step aside. His bid for the White House is, at this point, a slavish, self-serving power play. He has no mathematical chance of winning. If the two frontrunners hold on, they can ensure that the 2012 8-state rule remains in effect: “a candidate must win at least eight states.” Kasich will be out, as will any dim horse lurking in the shadows.
Jones then repeated Sanders’ financial story, but with a bit more flair:
“He raised $41 million, $42 million last month. We’re in the middle of Sanders’ second surge. And now both sides are frustrated with each other in every way. And that’s how it shows up.”
Sanders’ second surge? Good for the country and good for the Republicans (if only they’d open their eyes and see). Sanders has improved the grassroots fundraising game like no other. Hillary’s millions can’t guarantee her victory. When will the candidates and consultants wake up and smell Citizens United“Money can’t buy anyone a seat anywhere anymore. In California, Republicans took seats that Democrats had held for twenty-thirty years! Union money and a lot of Big Business support couldn’t keep them in the hands of liberals. No matter how much money, a political machine can’t pawn a bad brand. One hundred and seventy million for Jeb Bush, and all who supported the former governor of Florida came up empty-handed.
Jones’s final point about the democratic civil war was particularly telling because it showed how much he still missed the point:
“It’s like a couple arguing over some completely side issue.”
These ancient liberals are fighting over who will be able to surpass their opponent in statehood.
They want open borders, while Americans want security and national integrity. They want to raise taxes on everyone, even though the Occupant in the White House has raised taxes significantly without providing any evidence.
Oh, and this fight is not a side issue. It is about principle (Sanders) vs. policy (Clinton). It is about integrity vs. ambition. This war between statists is about whether the Democratic Party will openly glorify its crass, antidemocratic, schizophrenic hypocrisy; or whether Democrats will continue to play to the middle—and the middle class—only to return to the backroom deals that make the well-connected richer through the firm work and hard-earned income of everyone.
Whatever the early obituaries say about the Republican Party, conservatives can be certain that the Democrats are drifting apart and their future as a party does not look vivid.
