It takes little imagination to recognize how brittle the progressive monolith has become. Set to one side the inexplicable mystery of how normal black and Hispanic men can tolerate the progressive alphabet mafia or pronoun memorization drills. Rather, consider the barely contained conflict between splenetic trans activists and mulish lesbian activists, who the cross-dressers call TERFS. If the glue that keeps those head-butting groups voting together dries out even a little, then natural stress will take over and do the rest.
To give you an idea what I am talking about, hereās a random social media example of Trans-TERF conflict āprogressive infightingā that appeared in my feed just this morning:
You might say all those people are crazy and there isnāt an ounce of sense among them. Letās take one more example. Illegal Immigrants are another crazy, bolted-on group shaking apart the progressive coalition and crashing into other progressive factions, especially since they donāt know how to drive.
In this example clip, a former Democrat points to this election cycleās primaries as the moment he realized he would never vote Democrat again:
CLIP: Former democrat explains the moment he left the progressives (1:49).
Van Jonesās estimation of Trump was right. Trump is unique, a force unlike anything living progressives have ever faced before. He is not just advancing conservative values. Trump is smashing apart the progressive brand, even its self-identity as a political group.
And itās happening at a terrible time. Even worse for progressives, the Democrats have no clear leader, no anti-Trump to help craft a counter-narrative. Letās say voters accepted progressiveās deranged claims that Trump is a fill-in-the-blank, whatever, but itās definitely bad and definitely dangerous to democracy. Then who is the Democratsā alternative?
Another far-left progressive quoted by the New Republic, Liza Featherstone, a columnist for Jacobin and The New Republic, was recently a panelist at a New York progressive think tank event. āLike a lot of you, Iām depressed about the election,ā Liza began. But after researching the fundamentals and reading Al-Garbiās latest book, āI came away even more depressed . . . convinced that we, as a class, were politically useless.ā
Then Liza really poured on the dark predictions. She said as bad as things were, it was possible that they were about to get much worse. I think it is possible we may witness the complete collapse of progressive politics and a generation in the wilderness for Democrats.
To give you an idea what I am talking about, hereās a random social media example of Trans-TERF conflict āprogressive infightingā that appeared in my feed just this morning:
You might say all those people are crazy and there isnāt an ounce of sense among them. Letās take one more example. Illegal Immigrants are another crazy, bolted-on group shaking apart the progressive coalition and crashing into other progressive factions, especially since they donāt know how to drive.
In this example clip, a former Democrat points to this election cycleās primaries as the moment he realized he would never vote Democrat again:
CLIP: Former democrat explains the moment he left the progressives (1:49).
Van Jonesās estimation of Trump was right. Trump is unique, a force unlike anything living progressives have ever faced before. He is not just advancing conservative values. Trump is smashing apart the progressive brand, even its self-identity as a political group.
And itās happening at a terrible time. Even worse for progressives, the Democrats have no clear leader, no anti-Trump to help craft a counter-narrative. Letās say voters accepted progressiveās deranged claims that Trump is a fill-in-the-blank, whatever, but itās definitely bad and definitely dangerous to democracy. Then who is the Democratsā alternative?
Another far-left progressive quoted by the New Republic, Liza Featherstone, a columnist for Jacobin and The New Republic, was recently a panelist at a New York progressive think tank event. āLike a lot of you, Iām depressed about the election,ā Liza began. But after researching the fundamentals and reading Al-Garbiās latest book, āI came away even more depressed . . . convinced that we, as a class, were politically useless.ā
Then Liza really poured on the dark predictions. She said as bad as things were, it was possible that they were about to get much worse. I think it is possible we may witness the complete collapse of progressive politics and a generation in the wilderness for Democrats.
āļø SYMBOLIC NITWITS ā Monday, December 16, 2024 ā C&C NEWS š¦
Post-election progressives eat crow, slowly recognizing what increasingly appears to be a lasting realignment; international diplomacy returns as the adults head back to the White House; more.
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