Has any political party in the world attacked its own country with the stamina and intensity of the Democrat Party after 2000? From unleashing crime on the streets and weaponizing the federal bureaucracy, to Joe Biden's all-out War on the Middle Class, they've been relentless.
Looking back, 2000 seems like a real turning point for Democrats. They had all kinds of bad ideas before that, and some of those ideas did a LOT of damage, but after 2000 the party grew increasingly and openly obsessed with punitive policies, destroying and rebuilding America.
Maybe it was the 2000 election itself and the bitter partisan hangover. Maybe it was cultural and political turmoil on the Left after 9/11, the ugly dawn of the "Why do they hate us so much?" chickens-coming-home-to-roost response to terrorism.
Maybe it was the hard Left completing its long march to power and shouldering Bill Clinton's "Third Way" types aside, or the Left's savage hatred for George W. Bush, and the story Dems told themselves about dirty tricks from deplorable Swift Boaters stealing 2004 from Kerry.
Maybe it was campus culture spreading out to infect American society and politics at large. That definitely played a role in the dawn of cancel culture - an even more virulent form of political correctness, unleashed *after* P.C. had become a punchline.
Say what you will about Bill Clinton's many sins, but he didn't give off that modern Democrat vibe of loathing most of the country and lusting to dynamite vast swaths of America so it could be rebuilt according to lefty utopian visions. That garbage didn't blossom until Obama.
Maybe it was pure selfish political calculation on Bill Clinton's part, maybe he was just feeding his ego, but he loved taking credit for prosperity. He made ugly cash grabs with his "Invest in America," "Pay Your Fair Share" rhetoric, but he didn't want to kill the golden goose.
But now the Democrats are wholly obsessed with targeting and punishing huge chunks of American society and industry, slamming us with destructive policies in a snarling hunt for various forms of "justice" that permits no trial for the accused, no possibility of parole.
Everything the post-Clinton Democrats say is a declaration of war against some part of America, a vow to use the power of the State to crush somebody, a list of punishments they can't wait to inflict. They couldn't even champion America at Biden's dumb "democracy summit."
Modern Democrats think "championing America" means joining authoritarians in rattling off a list of America's grievous sins, agreeing with our enemies that we barely have a right to exist at all, but then expressing hope for a better future under one-party Democrat rule.
And it's not just rhetoric - the Democrats *act* on this stuff. The pandemic really unleashed their burning desire to dynamite the hideous old deplorable America into rubble and rebuild it according to Party ideology. Twenty years of mounting arrogance and rage has detonated.
America's adversaries are avidly exploiting this trend in Democrat ideology. How does the reign of a superpower end? When its own ruling Party agrees with its enemies that it shouldn't be a superpower anymore, and never really had a moral right to claim that title. /end
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