Thread by @JewhadiTM

Politicians in blackface? For Democrats, it beats defending late-term abortion. chicagotribune.com/news/columnist…

America has been told, relentlessly, that the nation became officially and irrevocably unhinged in November 2016.

That’s when a vulgar reality TV star flipped off the calcified Washington establishment, became president and triggered much hysterical weeping and teeth-gnashing among pundits and other palace guardians who play journalists on TV.

But as we lurch toward the 2020 presidential campaign, what of the Democrats?

Is the party of the angry American left —moving ever leftward and angrier by the minute — any more stable than Republicans of two years ago?

No. There’s a frenzy among the Democrats unleashed by the upcoming presidential campaign. We haven’t seen its like except in those Hieronymus Bosch paintings of hell.

The Democratic center has collapsed. Moderates are hunted down and cast out by the hard left that pulls the party’s chain. The late poet Maya Angelou famously warned that “when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

And that’s the scary part. What are Democrats showing the nation other than that many of them want to take us to Venezuela?

The Democratic Party itself has become unbound in an orgy of the extreme. They’re fixated on the sin of some Democrats wearing blackface decades ago. And this becomes their fig leaf to cover a push for late-term abortions and in some cases, infanticide.

That doesn’t win elections. That loses elections. But they don’t want to hear it. Addiction to anger overwhelms them now.

How else to explain those standing ovations and the wild applause in the New York Senate chamber when abortion up until birth, for any reason, was approved and signed into state law?

Gov. Andrew Cuomo had the One World Trade Center lit up pink in victory over helpless infants. And then he insisted that he was Roman Catholic and an altar boy. Cuomo’s skin must be made of wood.

Wood can’t blush. Wood can’t feel any shame. And apparently, neither does the old altar boy.

Most Americans don’t support abortion deep into the third trimester. Most Americans wouldn’t applaud in triumph. They’d feel shame for those clapping, like the old altar boy thumping his chest in victory. And they’d feel sorrow for the babies.

That’s most people. But Democratic politicians in New York felt the need to display triumph, loudly and stridently. The leftward tilt of the Democratic Party is almost a desperation, a hunger of the zealous.

This has already hurt presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, the California Democrat. She made it clear she wants to get rid of private health insurance. “Let’s eliminate all of that,” Harris said. “Let’s move on.”

Let’s eliminate all that? Harris tried to walk that back, but she went too far.

It is a disaster for her. But a rival for the Democratic nomination, Elizabeth Warren, is worse off. Warren finally and formally hammered the Faux into her own Fauxcahontas narrative.

Warren had insisted she didn’t use her “minority” status to climb the career ladder.

Ah, but of course she did just that. She danced the dance of race and favor. She didn’t check her privilege. Instead, she checked the box that said minority.

Now there’s another wildfire consuming the party of identity politics: The Virginia Democratic Black Face Spectacular.

The talk of Democrats wearing blackface has all but covered up something else that Northam, a pediatrician, said about aborting a child who had been delivered.

“When we talk about third-trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of — obviously — the mother, with the consent of the physicians — more than 1 physician, by the way. … If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered

"The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and mother."

A discussion. You mean the discussion that America isn’t having about the value of human life.