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Of Progressive Carnivores and Cannibals - via @VDHanson amgreatness.com/2019/07/14/of-…
The progressive-socialist party has absorbed what is left of the old Democratic Party.
They’re not satisfied with erasing images or commemorations of old white public enemies of the past—Father Serra, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson—but have quite logically turned their identity politics venom on all old white people of the present, including some of their own.
At first, the progressive Old Guard, like good Girondists, found the revolutionary carnivores useful in reducing the ranks of the Trumpians, the Tea Party, Reagan Dems, old Perot voters, and the white working class to inanimate status of “deplorables,” “irredeemables,” “clingers”
—and with them, the bigoted, racist, sexist, nativist, classist, homophobic, and xenophobic Republican Party.
Certainly, Pelosi (D-Calif.), Schumer (D-N.Y.), and a few geriatric sympathizers, such as Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), enjoyed the progressive feasting.
—especially the unity offered by shared hatred of the obviously soon to be impeached, deposed, exiled and discredited Donald J. Trump.
But revolutionary carnivores are rarely sated. Once they run out of easy hostile targets—and they have with the collapse of the Mueller hoax and all the other impeachment melodramas—they get hungry and as cannibals start to eye their own.
Just as the Jacobin agenda was nihilistic, so are the fantasies of the adolescent @AOC and her crowd.
No sane American would ever willingly embrace the ludicrous Green New Deal (designed not so much to address climate change as to impose government-ordered redistribution), the abolition of the Electoral College, the end of ICE...
... extending the franchise to 16-year-olds, cancellation of college debt, free tuition, reparations, a wealth tax, or legal infanticide.
Mostly, the Jacobins frighten the old guard progressives. They empower Donald Trump.
Mostly, the Jacobins frighten the old guard progressives. They empower Donald Trump.
They make what is left of the NeverTrump Republicans look even more ridiculous.
Ultimately, they are racists, who self-define by their appearance and their ethnic backgrounds in an ever more integrated, multiracial country in which the effort to transcend those Neanderthal considerations was largely the story of the last century.
