2024 Election - Democrats
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Democrats in ‘Panic Mode’ Over Gaza Protests Pushing the Country to the Right
Democrats are reportedly in a panic over the Gaza protests because they think the images of campus takeovers are pushing Americans to the right.
They have good reasons to be panicked. Trump is already leading in almost every swing state and one of the reasons is because the country is sick and tired of the antics of the radical left.
Joe Biden’s total silence and lack of action is only going to make things worse for them.
Axios reported:
Rick Moran comments at PJ Media:
The Democrats created this monster, but they can’t control it and they can’t survive without it.
It’s a perfect storm for them.
Will the Students Globalize the Intifada?
In Northwestern professor Gary Saul Morson's book, "Wonder Confronts Certainty," about the history of Russian literature, he describes what he says is a Russian literary type: the revolutionary. The revolutionary is typically from a well-off background but in love with destruction for its own sake. "The will to destroy is also a creative will," anarchist Mikhail Bakunin famously said. In 1918, Russian poet Alexander Blok wrote an essay titled "The Intelligentsia and the Revolution." In it, he argued that violence is an antidote to "the boredom, the triviality" of regular life -- it will "make everything over ... change our false, boring, hideous life ... this is called revolution."
But revolutionaries cannot succeed without mainstream support. During the lead-up to the Russian Revolution, the so-called Constitutional Democratic Party openly cheered and encouraged terrorists, even fundraising for them. The party leader said, after a massive terrorist attack of 1906, "Condemn terror? Never! That would mean the moral death of the party." Naturally, when the Bolsheviks took over, they killed or arrested all the leading members of the Constitutional Democratic Party.
When it comes to our radicals, nothing has changed. Bored middle- to upper-class kids have been privileged by a system that has handed them everything but given no mission by their parents other than to "find themselves." Then they meet fellow revolutionaries -- and revolutionary professors -- who inform them that the system that has given them their privilege is corrupt and evil. They feel guilty, and the only way to alleviate that guilt is to join the revolution. To cosplay oppression.
Right now, it's all somewhat silly. But there are two paths for these radicals -- both dangerous. The first path has been the most common in recent generations: the radicals go on to integrate into more mainstream institutions, which they corrupt from the inside. These radicals have absolutely destroyed major American institutions, from universities to businesses.
But there's an even darker path. That's the path where the LARPing doesn't stop at taking over campus buildings and assaulting Jewish students. That's the path where a few acts of violence blossom into something far, far worse. That's what happened during the 1960s and 1970s; in 1971 and 1972, there were almost five bombings a day in the United States. Groups ranging from the Black Panthers to the Symbionese Liberation Army, from the FALN to the Weather Underground, engaged in violent terrorism.
Both paths are plausible. Humored by the Democratic Party, propped up by the media, these college revolutionaries will eventually get tired of co-opting institutions and seek to tear them down entirely. All it takes is someone to break the glass first.
What could break the glass? It could be as simple as Donald Trump winning the 2024 election. Remember, while the student protesters were rioting in 1968, it took Richard Nixon's election to push those protesters underground -- and into overt acts of routine terrorism. Given that the entire left has now deemed Donald Trump a fascist threat, would it be all that shocking if the same students now barricading administration buildings on behalf of an actual terrorist group, Hamas, decide to ratchet their "intifada" up to the next level?
Escalating Campus Protests Put Joe Biden in a Bad Position
I can see why the White House went for this talking point but as Stephen Miller pointed out, his outspokenness then only makes his near silence now seem more conspicuous.
Over at the Washington Post, Aaron Blake states the obvious: Biden can't afford to lose any more potential voters.
Axios has a story up today reporting that Democrats are nervous about what is happening.
The Democratic Party's Catch-22 on Israel Just Keeps Getting Worse
Senior Democrats are reportedly in "panic mode" about the violent demonstrations that have broken out across America's college campuses as the consequences of the conflict in the Middle East imperil Joe Biden's chances of re-election.
Protests against Israel's war against Hamas have spread like wildfire over the past few days, with major demonstrations taking place at some of the country's top universities, including Columbia and University College of Los Angeles (UCLA).
According to a report from Axios, Democrats in Congress are increasingly concerned about the optics of said demonstrations and fear it could even cost them the White House:
Axios also talked with various lawmakers on the record, including Rep. Annie Kuster (D-NH), who admitted that many Democrats have been "holding back" their true feelings about the protests.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) similarly warned that activists plan on protesting outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago and that the issue is "looming" over Biden's campaign. Other anonymous Democrats also weighed in, with one warning that a "vote for Trump or sitting out this election or voting third party is a vote for Netanyahu."