Today’s paragraphs come to us from Victor Davis Hanson, whose impressive résumé includes being a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno, and a Senior Fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University‘s Hoover Institution.
Mr. Hanson has written an analysis of where the Democrat Party is right now, how it got there and what it will and will not do to regain power.
Here are his beginning paragraphs:
The progressive strategy of investigating President Donald Trump nonstop for Russian collusion or obstruction of justice or witness tampering so far has produced no substantial evidence of wrongdoing.
The alternate strategy of derailing the new administration before it really gets started hasn’t succeeded either, despite serial efforts to sue over election results, alter the Electoral College vote, boycott the inauguration, delay the confirmation of appointments, demand recusals, promise Trump’s impeachment or removal through the 25th Amendment, and file suit under the Emoluments Clause.
A third strategy of portraying Trump as a veritable monster likewise so far has failed in four special elections for House seats.
Apparently progressives have accepted the idea that Barack Obama’s formula of twice winning the Electoral College is not yet transferable to other progressive candidates such as Hillary Clinton. And they probably have concluded that Obama’s progressive political agenda proved unpopular with voters by 2010 and had to be implemented by ad hoc executive orders — presidential prerogatives now utilized by Donald Trump to overturn the ones Obama issued.
A fourth potential pathway to power would be a return to Bill Clinton’s pragmatic agendas of the 1990s. But apparently progressives find that centrist remedy worse than the malady of losing elections — given that during the Obama tenure, more than 1,000 state and local offices were lost to Republicans, in addition to majorities in the House and Senate, and a majority of governorships and legislatures.
Victor Davis Hanson wins Paragraphs Of The Day honors because that is as good an analysis of today’s Democrat Party as you will ever see.
I wonder how many party leaders will read it? I hope the answer is a lot of them – because every one would benefit by doing so.
