Thread by @laurahollis61

I'm not seeing much discussion of the massive damage that's been done to the Democratic Party.

The Democrats I know are cops, farmers, teachers; families who love America & their neighbors. They love the DP they knew from the past.

But the party has been wholesale hijacked.

The Clintons bear much of the blame for destroying the DP, but not all of it. The DP has sold out to multinational corporations, and allowed itself to be infiltrated by America-hating Marxists and other extremist splinter groups, while pandering for votes.

That's why Dems like Pelosi, Biden, Feinstein, Nadler, Tom Perez, Donna Brazile seem so hog-tied most of the time

Trump has been a GIFT to them, because they can focus all their public attention on him, and not on the deep divisions & fatal fractures in their party.

For example, they've embraced Antifa & BLM activists thinking that this will pull more voters to the DP, unified by their loathing of Trump.

The DP thinks it can "turn off" these protests like a spigot if/when they win the WH and Congress.

They're wrong.

Just like their embrace of the Squad: AOC, Tlaib, Pressly and Omar, those decisions are going to come back to bite them.

The Democratic Party has now taken the Marxists, anarchists and their poisonous ideologies right into the heart of the party, and it's going to kill them.

Democrats I know who are supporting the Biden-Harris ticket can't stand Trump, and like the old Joe Biden they knew from the 1970s, 80s & 90s.

They don't see - or refuse to believe - that Biden is a shell game - a political bait-and-switch. And they don't see what's behind him.

They don't understand that Kamala Harris - who got absolutely ZERO support in the Dem primaries - has been chosen for VP because she fits the suit and has few strong positions of her own. She'll do what she's told.

They don't understand the threat of packing the Supreme Court, eliminating the Electoral College, adding new states to the union. They don't understand that if those things happen, the states they live in will never draw the interest of Democratic presidential candidates again.

They don't see the riots in NYC, Atlanta, Seattle, Chicago, Portland, Kenosha - or the prolonged shutdowns in MI, NY and CA - or the flight from WA, OR, NY, IL & CA - as harbingers of the future.

They've been told that electing Biden will fix all that. And they believe it.

But there are plenty of Democrats who DO see what's happened. And they give a glimpse of the party's future. Tulsi Gabbard & Joe Manchin speak out against some positions & actions taken by their party, but still choose to stay in it, despite being courted by the GOP.

Other high-profile Democrats like Leo Terrell and Vernon Jones have all but left the party.

And then there are those voters who've joined the #WalkAway and #BLEXIT movements which have expressly left the Democratic Party.

To the extent anyone's asking about the Democratic Party, it's "What will happen if they lose in November?"

But the real question is, "What will happen if they WIN?"

All these splinter groups will expect their payoffs.

The protests & violence won't stop. Why should they? They worked - Democrats have caved to them.

The environmental extremists clamoring to shut down entire industries will expect action to be taken on those fronts, the impact on the economy be damned.

Others with their hands out will include those who demand that the police be defunded, who want the 2A abolished, and who demand federal control over housing and zoning. Not to mention the perennial calls for elimination of school choice and for higher taxes.

My patriotic friends who still vote Democrat - like the #NeverTrump Republicans - don't think any of these things will happen. They believe they'll get rid of Trump and all will be right with the world.

No one's asking what they'll do when they find out they've been deceived.