I don’t ordinarily link to left-wing FakeNews™ outlets such as Salon.com, but in this case, I must make an exception. Writer Andrew O’Hehir argues that there is no Democratic “blue wave” election coming in the next mid-term cycle and that the problems of the Democrats and the left are really long-term structural issues that the party has not, as yet, addressed.
The Obama years have been a disaster for the Anti-American party as we have previously pointed out. They are now a weak and regional shadow of their former selves. But even after losing over 1000 seats nationwide and all three branches at the federal level, they still refuse to take responsibility for their actions. They will not admit that their rejection at the hands of the American voters is largely their own fault. The Democrats themselves rejected the white, working class voters but do not acknowledge their mistake in doing so. And so they are hobbled by their refusal to face reality. For as long as they keep their eyes shut, they will continue to make the same mistakes.
We received a message from the future this week, directed to the outraged liberals of the so-called anti-Trump resistance. It was delivered by an unlikely intermediary, Greg Gianforte, the Republican who won a special election on Thursday and will soon take his seat in Congress as Montana’s lone representative. (Here’s a trivia question to distract you from the doom and gloom: Without recourse to Google, how many other states can you name that have only one House seat?)
If you found yourself ashen-faced and dismayed on Friday morning, because you really believed the Montana election would bring a sign of hope and mark the beginning of a return to sanity in American politics, then the message encoded in Gianforte’s victory is for you. It goes something like this:
Get over Montana already — and stop trolling yourself with that stupid special election in Georgia too. They don’t mean anything, and anyway — that dude Jon Ossoff? He’s about the lamest excuse for a national progressive hero in the entire history of Democratic Party milquetoast triangulation. Oh, and since we’re on the subject: Forget about the “blue wave” of 2018. Forget about the Democratic majority of 2019. Forget about the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Have you even been paying attention? Because none of that stuff is happening and it’s all a massive distraction.
