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Who Killed All the Feminist Blogs?

Posted on | December 10, 2019 | 3 Comments

 

Let’s throw a victory party to celebrate this good news:

Soon after Anna Holmes took on the job of building the website Jezebel, in 2007, she set it apart from established publications like Vogue and Elle with a post offering $10,000 to anyone who would send in the best unretouched version of a women’s magazine cover photo. And with that, Jezebel had marked its territory: feminist cultural criticism, with an edge. . . .
Within three years, Jezebel had surpassed its sibling publication, Gawker.com, the flagship site of Gawker Media, in monthly page views. . . .
In the aughts and the earlier part of this decade, other online feminist publications sprang to life — Feministing, The Hairpin, The Toast and many others — covering everything from paid leave to the Kardashians in a conversational voice that was sometimes rude, sometimes funny and never didactic.
Now many of those sites are dead or dying, and Jezebel is under new management, part of a stable of publications run by the hedge fund-controlled ownership group, G/O Media, that recently set off a staff exodus at the sports site Deadspin. Feminist media has been especially hard hit by the financial turbulence in the news industry.
Samhita Mukhopadhyay, a former executive editor of Feministing and now the executive editor of Teen Vogue, said she missed the years when those publications were connecting with readers, calling it “the heyday” of independent feminist media. . . .
The gradual collapse has continued into this year. Feministing, an independent blog founded in 2004, plans to shut down in the weeks to come. At its peak, the site had 1.2 million unique monthly visitors, with most revenue coming from ads and reader donations. The co-executive editors, Lori Adelman and Maya Dusenbery, said Feministing helped popularize the term “slut shaming,” ran early interviews with chart-toppers like Lizzo and pushed for coverage of Gamergate, a cybermob that targeted women.
“It was unclear how we could have such a ferocious audience and not be onto something,” Ms. Mukhopadhyay said. “Many of us involved in the feminist blogosphere are now in mainstream media, and that’s exciting. That said, we need independent media because they’re an important check.”
The Establishment, an independent blog focused on gender and race, stopped publishing in April with a farewell post bemoaning the “Sisyphean” difficulty of making money with a site focused on “intersectional feminist media.” In May, Vice Media’s women’s site, Broadly, was folded into the larger Vice brand.
The Hairpin, with recurring features like “Ask a Queer Chick” and “Interview With a Virgin,” shut down last year, as did Lenny Letter, the newsletter and website started by Lena Dunham and her producing partner, Jenni Konner. Rookie Magazine, the diarylike site started by the fashion-blogger-turned-actress Tavi Gevinson when she was 15, also ended its run. XoJane, known for first-person essays like “My Rapist Friended Me On Facebook (And All I Got Was This Lousy Article),” signed off in 2016.

Now, as much as I’d like to claim credit for destroying all these feminist blogs, the truth is that none of them were ever really successful enough to be self-sustaining. I mean, Feministing’s editors want to brag about 1.2 million uniques a month? That number sounds more impressive than it actually is, and it certainly could not have justified a full-time staff based on potential advertising revenue. No, those blogs were always a money-draining vortex, which chiefly owed their existence to (a) contributions from tax-exempt liberal non-profits like Planned Parenthood, and (b) the willingness of Gender Studies majors to write for free (or for minimal fees). And, it must be said, after Hillary lost the 2016 election, several of the Left’s moneybags evidently re-thought the wisdom of their investment in feminist Internet propaganda mills. For some reason, this New York Times feature ignores the demise of the very worst of the lot, Everyday Feminism, which now exists in zombie form — they don’t seem to have posted any new articles since 2016, although the site is still online. I never could figure out who was paying the bills at Everyday Feminism, but was under the impression that they must have some kind of deep-pockets sugar daddy willing to shell out a six-figure annual subsidy for all that “queer” intersectional insanity they published.

Whatever the case, the decline and fall of the feminist empire is good news — glad tidings! joy to the world! hosanna in the highest!

You don’t have to give me credit. All I ask is that you remember that the Five Most Important Worlds in the English Language are:

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Category: Feminism

Dear Tyler O’Neil …

Posted on | December 10, 2019 | Comments Off on Dear Tyler O’Neil …

 

Politics is about winning. I understand that, and one of the main reasons I support Donald Trump is that, unlike so many Republicans, our president understands that. All your finest policy ideas count for nothing if you cannot win elections, and a certain ruthlessness about tactics is necessary to defeat the Democrats, who are utterly unscrupulous.

Nevertheless, Mr. Tyler, there must be limits to how far we go in pursuit of partisan goals, and you went too far Monday. To attack Joe Biden by smearing the United Daughters of the Confederacy? No, sir, my sense of honor requires me to object to this. You are perhaps not old enough to remember the uproar created by Illinois Democrat Sen. Carol Moseley Braun’s attack on the UDC in 1993. Her chief antagonist in that fight was North Carolina Republican Sen. Jesse Helms. The squabble over the renewal of the UDC’s patent was one of the incidents in President Clinton’s first two years in office which awoke the nation to the fact that the radical Left had taken over the Democratic Party. A year later, voters swept Republicans into majorities in both Houses of Congress.

It is insulting to claim that the UDC, a bunch of polite old ladies who every Memorial Day decorate the graves of our ancestors who fought for Southern independence, is akin to the Ku Klux Klan, which became a terrorist organization that was denounced by Nathan Bedford Forrest (who, in case you didn’t know it, was legendarily the founder of the KKK and scarcely a “progressive” in politics). It is entirely respectable — the decent thing to do — for anyone to defend the good name of their ancestors, and as it would be dishonorable for me to malign my wife’s Yankee forebears for being on the other side of the Late Unpleasantness, I expect others to extend the same courtesy to me.

Now, Mr. Tyler, I understand what you were doing with your Biden article. As a senator from Delaware, Biden used the phrase “many fine people” to describe those “who continue to display the Confederate flag as a symbol” — which is exactly what Trump said in August 2017 about those defending the Robert E. Lee memorial in Charlottesville.

 

An excellent find, this video — and I am grateful to you for bringing it to public attention. However, I must object to your dragging the nice little old ladies of the UDC through the mud as part of your attack on Biden. This was an unnecessary insult. Every American ought to appreciate the work done by the UDC in defending the memory of our Confederate ancestors, who deserve remembrance in the same way a Scotsman remembers his ancestors who fought at Culloden Bridge.

That C-SPAN clip of Biden speaking of “many fine people” who are proud of their Confederate ancestry serves to expose Biden’s hypocrisy in his attack on Trump for saying the same thing, but of course all liberals are hypocrites — you should read what Malcolm X had to say about them, and if I don’t scruple to invoke Malcolm X for the sake of winning an argument, that shows you how devoted I am to winning, as a principle.

Mr. Tyler, you and I cover the same Culture War terrain of American politics, and I have long been grateful for your work. I assume, given your Irish surname, that you are a conservative Catholic. Because of my own staunch pro-life advocacy, some of my readers have occasionally mistaken me for a Catholic, which compels me to correct them, as I am proudly Protestant and abhor your Papist superstitions. (The drift toward “liberation theology” heresies by Jorge Mario Bergoglio have perhaps made some conservative Catholics aware of the dangers inherent to their system.) Despite our theological differences, however, I consider Humanae Vitae a valuable contribution to Christian understanding of human nature, and thus find myself in alliance with conservative Catholics in our continuing Culture War. Indeed, this recalls to memory Jefferson Davis’s affectionate relations with the Catholic Church. As a youth, Davis was the only Protestant student at a Catholic school in Kentucky; as Confederate president, he wrote a letter to Pope Pius IX expressing “our gratitude for such sentiments of Christian good feeling and love” as the pontiff had conveyed in a letter to Catholic clergy. When Davis was imprisoned by the Yankees in 1866, the Pope sent him an autographed photo inscribed with the Latin text of Matthew 11:28.

Given this history, Mr. Tyler, I would hope that in the future you would keep in mind that Southerners are among the most resolute combatants in our Culture War, in which we must have the unity that Henry V urged at Agincourt: “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.”

Let us therefore be more considerate of each other in the future, as it is my fondest hope ever to remain

Your Most Humble and Obedient Servant,

Robert Stacy McCain

 

 



 

Category: Culture, History, Joe Biden

In The Mailbox: 12.09.19

Posted on | December 9, 2019 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Two bits of administrivia for your Monday enjoyment: first, I dropped Shark Tank from the list because I’ve been getting security cert errors on Firefox, and I can’t find an e-mail link to inform Javier Manjarres, the main man over there, that he’s got a problem. If someone has that and can send it to me, I’d be much obliged; alternately, a recommendation for a good Florida-centric conservative blog would be good too.

Secondly – Help me, commentariat, you’re my only hope. The credit union dropped me a line to let me know that I need to give them $135 by Friday so they don’t repossess my Kia. This will, not coincidentally, keep them off my neck until January when I’ll be back in the tax mines generating regular paychecks again. Please, please hit the tip jar at the end of this post, and thank you in advance for your generosity.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ammo.com: The Culpeper Minuteman Flag
EBL: Did Matt Drudge Sell The Drudge Report?
Twitchy: Mollie Hemingway’s IG Report Thread Paints A Very Different Picture From The MSM
Louder With Crowder: Sir Anthony Hopkins On Politics – “Actors Are Pretty Stupid”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Review Of Roosh’s Babylon Road
American Conservative: The Campaign To Lie America Into World War II
American Greatness: Our Elites Have Learned Nothing
American Power: Pensacola NAS Jihadi Watched Shooting Videos Before Attack
American Thinker: Pro-Abortion Pelosi’s Convenient Catholicism
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Ladies In White Violently Arrested In Another Sunday Of Brutal Repression In Communist Cuba
BattleSwarm: Our Stupid Media – An Update, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Cafe Hayek: The Hubris Of Such People Is Appalling
Camp of the Saints: December 7, 1941 – “The Unprovoked & Dastardly Attack”
CDR Salamander: Holding The Line With Guy Snodgrass On Midrats, also, France’s Long War
Da Tech Guy: That Such Men Lived, also, Mrs. Maisel Goes Full Alinsky On Phyllis Schlafly
Don Surber: The Best Political Consultant In America, also, No Excitement Without An Indictment
First Street Journal: Nancy Pelosi Is Riding The Tiger, also, Wrongthink Must Be Punished!
The Geller Report: Muslim Who Stabbed Jews At Amsterdam Market Ruled Unfit To Stand Trial, also, Two Teens Beat, Tase Israeli Tourists In Brooklyn Robbery
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Breaking – WaPo Discovers The Government Lies
Hollywood In Toto: Seven Uncomfortable Questions Bombshell Cast Should Answer, also, John Legend Virtue Signals While Defending Virtue Signaling
Joe For America: Portland Wants Private Property Owners To Add “Mandatory Rest Spaces” For The Homeless
JustOneMinute: Something For Everyone In The IG Report On Crossfire Hurricane
Legal Insurrection: Liz Warren Admits She Pocketed $2 Million From Law Practice Which Included Anti-Consumer Representation, also, Dershowitz – Democrats Found The Man, Now They’re Looking For The Crime
Michelle Malkin: Where Are All The AWOL Muslim Military Trainees?
The PanAm Post: Exclusive Interview With Juan Guaido’s Former Ambassador To Colombia
Power Line: Impeach Trump Because Of…Slavery? also, When You’ve Lost The Intelligent Voices On The WaPo’s Op-Ed Page…
Shot In The Dark: Misleading Advertising
This Ain’t Hell: Marine’s C-4 Joke At Airport Bombs, also, John DeSomer – Fake POW, Eight Bronze Stars, Four Purple Hearts
Victory Girls: Pensacola – NYT Sats Don’t Call It Terrorism Yet, also, Virginia AG Herring – They’re Really Not Going To Defy Us
Volokh Conspiracy: Impeachment Based On Improper Motives
Weasel Zippers: Pete Hegseth Banned From Twitter For Sharing Pensacola Shooter’s Manifesto, also, Nadler – Anyone Who Votes Against Impeaching Trump Is Not A Patriot
Mark Steyn: Ace In The Hole, also, Sleigh Ride

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Category: Linkagery

The Democrats and Their Narrative

Posted on | December 9, 2019 | 1 Comment

Watching the impeachment hearings this morning — Democrat lawyer Daniel Goldman is “testifying,” which is to say lecturing, uninterrupted by questions — one gathers the impression that Democrats believe (a) nothing Hunter Biden did in Ukraine was wrong, (b) it was perfectly OK for Ukraine to “meddle” in the 2016 U.S. election, and (c) it was therefore wrong for President Trump to urge Ukraine to investigate corruption.

The argument Goldman is making is that Trump (and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani) wanted Ukraine to do something that would be politically beneficial to the president’s 2020 re-election campaign — and, according to Democrats, anything that is good for Republicans is inherently wrong.

It is important to Democrats that they keep repeating this narrative of how wrong it would be to investigate Burisma (and Alexandra Chalupa, etc.) because they can’t give the American people a minute’s peace in which to think about all of this and to say in reply, “So what?”



 

Category: Corruption, Democrats, Donald Trump, Ukraine

Gunmen in Florida Hijacking/Shootout Were Cousins and Career Criminals

Posted on | December 8, 2019 | Comments Off on Gunmen in Florida Hijacking/Shootout Were Cousins and Career Criminals

 

Thursday afternoon, a rush-hour traffic jam in Broward County, Florida, brought an end to a high-speed pursuit of two gunmen who had attempted to rob a jewelry store in Coral Gables and then hijacked a UPS truck in an incredibly stupid escape attempt. In a shootout with police in Miramar, both criminals were killed, along with a bystander and the kidnapped UPS driver. We now know the names of the robbers:

The FBI has identified the two armed robbers who were killed Thursday after police say they ripped off a jewelry store, stole a UPS truck and kidnapped the driver, then led police a pursuit through two counties which led to a deadly shootout.
They are Lamar Alexander, 41, and Ronnie Jerome Hill, 41, both of Miami-Dade County, according to the FBI.
CBS4 News spoke to Alexander’s brother, Corey Smith who said about his brother, “Make better choices in life. Your decisions affect more than just you.”
Smith says Alexander had three children.
The men, who are cousins, both have criminal histories.
Court records show Alexander was sentenced to probation for a 1996 robbery and 1997 burglary. Five arrests in the 2000’s resulted in no convictions before he served a lengthy stretch in prison for a 2008 armed robbery conviction in southwest Florida, gaining his release in 2017.
Florida Department of Corrections records show Hill served time in prison twice: in the 1990s on burglary and robbery convictions and more recently for five burglary-related convictions.
Naomi Hill, the aunt of both suspects, said Alexander was “a good boy — he had changed his life around.” She said he was married with three children and working for a garbage-collection company. . . .
April Wyche, the sister of Ronnie Hill, said he was the father of two young children, one with special needs, and was working as a driver for a cabinetry company. She said she has no idea why he would have committed the robbery, saying he could have turned to her or their mother for help if needed. . . .
Alexander, Hill, UPS driver Frank Ordonez, and innocent driver Richard Cutshaw, were all killed in the shootout which took place in a busy intersection in Miramar.

What did I tell you Friday?

[Y]ou know doggone well that this was not their first time at the rodeo. You don’t begin your criminal career by robbing a jewelry store. No, these guys had almost certainly been perpetrating since they were teenagers, and when we finally learn their identities, we’ll discover that they had extensive criminal records and yet, for some reason, were not in prison. This is predictable, to anyone who pays attention to news about crime, and yet somehow our criminal justice system hasn’t figured out that it’s a bad idea to turn these animals loose.

Exactly as I said, these guys have criminal records dating back more than 20 years, and both had gotten out of prison less than two years ago:

Lamar Alexander went to prison for nearly a decade for robbing a jewelry store in Lee County. Ronnie Hill spent most of his adult life locked up for a string of burglaries and holding a postal clerk hostage during a robbery in Miami.
Both walked out of state prison in 2017, only to engineer one final heist that left two innocent people dead and cost them their own lives. . . .
“I didn’t know he was living like that,” said Alexander’s brother, Corey Smith, a well-known football coach at Miami Senior High School. “In life, you gotta make better decisions. We weren’t raised like that. I love my brother, but he’s been making bad decisions his whole life.”
The FBI, which is leading the investigation, is examining whether the two men were connected to prior robberies in South Florida, according to one law-enforcement source. . . .
Alexander and Hill had long histories of arrests, smaller crimes that foreshadowed Thursday’s jewelry heist and hostage-taking.
Records show that Alexander’s first arrests for burglary and robbery in Miami-Dade happened in 1996, when he was in his early 20s. He was entered into a boot camp program. But he eventually flunked out of his probation when he was arrested again for a burglary — a judge sentenced him to 364 days in the county jail.
Alexander, who sports tattoos of clowns on both forearms and has three children, racked up another minor conviction for trespassing in 2000. Eight years later, he was arrested on an allegation he punched his pregnant wife in Overtown. She filed for a restraining order, which was eventually dismissed. The criminal charge was later dropped.
That was the same year that Alexander was one of four men arrested in Lee County for robbing a Mayors Jewelers in Fort Myers. He admitted he’d rented a car in Miami to serve as a getaway driver.
Alexander was sentenced to 10 years in state prison. He walked out of prison in September 2017. A Lee County judge lifted his probation a few months later after Alexander, in a court motion, wrote he was “ready to move forward with my life as a citizen.”
Hill had a similar history of arrests.
He picked up his first adult arrest, for burglary with a battery, in Miami-Dade in December 1993. He was only 15 years old. Court records don’t show if he served any prison time, but he was convicted and sentenced as a “youthful offender.”
When he was 20 years old, authorities said, Hill was arrested after he and another man robbed a female postal clerk in Liberty City. Inspectors said the men handcuffed the woman as she arrived to work, forcing her to open safes and cash drawers.
Federal authorities indicted Hill in 1998. He went to trial, lost and was sentenced to 151 months in prison. He walked free from prison in 2010. He could not stay out of trouble.
Over the next couple of years, he was arrested on a slew of minor charges, including loitering and dealing in stolen property. He was finally sent to Florida prison for a series of car burglaries in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach, between 2014 and 2016.
He got out in February 2017 — and within months was arrested again.
Police said he and another man broke into a car outside the Robert is Here fruit stand in South Miami-Dade. The State Attorney’s Office, however, did not press charges because the victims failed to cooperate, according to state records.

Well, they’re dead now, which is the only way to stop the criminal careers of such characters. As long as they’re breathing and not behind bars, habitual offenders will continue committing criminal violence.



 

Category: Crime, Florida

Rule 5 Sunday: Monica Ruiz

Posted on | December 8, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The UCSB graduate has appeared in minor roles in a few movies and TV series, but what’s catapulted her to fame (or maybe infamy) is her role in the recent Peloton ad that apparently triggered a whole bunch of idjits on the intertubes. Well, if nothing else, she got an immediate role in an ad for Ryan Reynolds’ Aviation Gin. Here she is aggressively flaunting her navel in a red bikini.

Before Peloton and Aviation Gin. Doesn’t look like she needs an exercise bike to me…

Ninety Mils From Tyranny presents Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #825, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Climate Apocalypse Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL brings us Vanessa Kirby, Kelly Loeffler, Neko Case, Shonen Knife, Rachel Brosnahan, WWII Pinup Girls, and Peloton Wife Monica Ruiz.

A View From The Beach nets Goliath Girl, Tania Raymonde, Eagle Attacks H&R Block Office, Fish Pic Friday – Black Drum, Tattoo Thursday, Water Bottles for Wednesday, I Didn’t Know We Had ‘Em, Tattoos for Tuesday, “Bring a Torch Janette Isabella”, Award Winning Journalist Loses Job to Severe Case of TDS and Another Palm Sunday.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Mamie Van Doren.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Snowing

Posted on | December 8, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Snowing

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Getting closer to having everything done on time…

Rule 5 Tuesday: D.C. Fontana
Bacon Time
Animal Magnetism
EBL
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

FMJRA 2.0: Neuronengesang
A View From The Beach
EBL

There Is No Substitute for Victory
Dark Brightness
EBL

Young Climate Change Maniacs
Pushing Rubber Downhill
A View From The Beach
EBL

Barr Disputes IG Horowitz Report
A View From The Beach
EBL

Black Woman’s Presidential Campaign Rejected by Racist Sexist Democrats
Pushing Rubber Downhill
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.03.19 (Leftovers)
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Against Extremism
EBL

Pedophiles for Hillary: Mueller Source Indicted for Campaign Finance Fraud
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach

Professor Demands Censorship
357 Magnum
EBL

Attention Republicans: Stop Scapegoating Others for Your Own Personal Failures
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.04.19 (Afternoon Edition)
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 12.05.19
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

When the NPC Asks, One Must Deliver
EBL

Four Dead After Florida Jewelry-Store Robbery Leads to High-Speed Pursuit
EBL

The Total Florida Woman Story
EBL

Aniah Blanchard Murder Suspect Blames His Victim: Teenager ‘Went for the Gun’
EBL

His Name Was Mohammed Alshamrani
Dark Brightness
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.06.19 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 12.06.19 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBLProof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending December 6:

  1.  EBL (20)
  2.  A View From The Beach (10)
  3. Proof Positive (6)
  4.  357 Magnum (5)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

Pat Buchanan Nails It

Posted on | December 8, 2019 | Comments Off on Pat Buchanan Nails It

You just need to go read this column. Years ago (it was around the time of the Iraq War, as I recall), William F. Buckley Jr. wrote a column in which he declared that it was no longer possible to defend Patrick J. Buchanan against accusations of anti-Semitism. Buckley’s mastery of forensic method is not to be disputed, but the targeting of Buchanan is an example of the “urge to purge” that has so often damaged the conservative cause. Buchanan’s decades of loyal service to the Republican Party — he was a key adviser to both Nixon and Reagan — ought to have entitled him to a certain amount of deference, even from such an eminent figure as Buckley, and as I’ve often said, you cannot build a successful movement by a process of subtraction. When the conservative movement was on the upswing in the 1960s, it’s understandable why Buckley felt a need to repudiate the John Birch Society. Since the end of the Reagan presidency, however, we have seen the emergence of division between the leadership of the movement and the rank and file. Buchanan has always represented the populist side of conservatism and if, in channeling the spirit of the disgruntled masses, he has been guilty of playing footsie with Jew-haters, this is a grievous fault, and grievously hath Buchanan answered it. His value as an analyst and strategist is undiminished by his faults, however.

Buchanan has the old-fashioned idea that politics is about people — identify the key voter groups, determine what interests motivate them, and from this process you can find a way to engage and persuade them. Buchanan is credited with coining the phrase “Silent Majority” to describe the middle- and working-class Americans who were weary of the chaotic turmoil of the 1960s, and he offers similar insights in analyzing developments in the Democratic Party coalition leading up to 2020:

The “diversity is our strength!” party is starting to look rather monochromatic in its upper echelons these days.
The four leading candidates for its presidential nomination — Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Pete Buttigieg — are all white.
The six candidates who have qualified for the December 19 debate—the front four, plus Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer—are all white.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer are both white, as are Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Whip Dick Durbin.
The chairs of the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees managing impeachment, Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler, are both white. And as Congressman Al Green noted Wednesday, all three experts Nadler invited to make the Democrats’ case for impeachment were white law professors. How come?
Absent affirmative action by the DNC, neither Cory Booker, the leading black candidate for the nomination, nor Julian Castro, the leading Hispanic, will be on the stage December 19. . . .
African Americans are a bedrock constituency of the Democratic Party. In recent presidential elections, they have voted 90 percent for the party’s nominee, and even higher for Barack Obama.
How is Mayor Pete doing with this constituency?
While running first in some polls in Iowa, his share of the African-American vote in South Carolina, in a recent poll, was zero. Buttigieg had no black support in a state where African Americans constitute more than 60 percent of the Democratic vote. . . .

Read the whole thing. There is an obvious disconnect between what the Democrats say they stand for and what they actually do. If you were paying attention to Kamala Harris’s supporters the past couple of weeks, you know that (b) they feel she has been cheated by the process, and (b) they hate Pete Buttigieg with the heat of ten thousand suns. All the Hollywood money pouring into Buttigieg’s coffers is an ill omen for Democrats — their elite have lost touch with the party base, much like happened to the GOP in 2012, when the Republican establishment backed Mitt Romney over the protests of the Tea Party grassroots.

So now Democrats have the #PrimarySoWhite for a party whose most loyal constituents are “people of color,” and this does not bode well for their effort to defeat Trump next year.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)



 

Category: Democrats, Election
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