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In The Mailbox: 08.02.19

Posted on | August 2, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Thing That Would Not Die
EBL: A$AP Rocky Free At Last To Leave Sweden
Twitchy: Occasional Cortex’s Chief Of Staff, Comms Director Leaving
Louder With Crowder: Black Man Illustrates Insanity Of “Everything Is Racist!” With Hilarious Video
According To Hoyt: New Worlds For Old
Monster Hunter Nation: July Update Post
Vox Popoli: Self-Destruction Is The Aim

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Fresh Air Edition
American Greatness: Don’t Kill Whitey
American Power: RFK Granddaughter Saoirse Kennedy Hill Dies of Drug Overdose
American Thinker: President Trump Shatters Left-Wing Myths
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five UFO Kookery News
Babalu Blog: Nangaras In NYNJ Celebrate Cuba’s Enslavement
BattleSwarm: Will Hurd (TX-23) Not Running For Re-election, also, LinkSwarm For August 2
Camp of the Saints: The Kennedy Klan – Curse Or Tragedy?
CDR Salamander: Vietnam Plays A Smart Game, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Progressive Good Intentions vs. Inner City Realities, also, Ever Hear Of Teleconferencing, Greta?
Don Surber: Trump Asks, Why Trade With Red China?
Dustbury: Here I Come To Save The Day
First Street Journal: Good News! White Robots Are Raaaaacist!
Fred On Everything: Who The Hell is Mitch McConnell Anyway?
The Geller Report: CAIR Demands NY Young Republicans Cancel Pamela Geller Appearance, also, Watchdog Group Says UK Antisemitic Incidents Hit Record High
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Gillette Gets Woke, Goes Broke
Hollywood In Toto: Hobbs & Shaw – Loud, Dumb, Silly, & Spectacular
Joe For America: After “Winning” Debates, Fartacus Faces Arrest For Escorting Illegals Across The Border, also, Antifa Says It’s Coming To Texas For Ten Day Siege; Texas: Don’t Threaten Me With A Good Time
JustOneMinute: Seven Up!
Legal Insurrection: U. Michigan Accused of Trying To Out Gay Student Suing Over Alleged Abuse By Prof, also, We Called It On Tulsi Gabbard
The PanAm Post: Leopoldo Lopez And The Guerilla Country In Colombia
Power Line: The Shameless Mr. Sharpton, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: Jeb Bush Backs Taylor For Clay County Sheriff
Shot In The Dark: No Guns No Coverage, also, The War On Dissent
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Socialist Workers Party & American Politics
This Ain’t Hell: Navy Orders Probe Into Actions Of JAG Corps Leaders, also, Valor Friday
Victory Girls: Cincinnati Trump Rally – Filled With Patriotic Goodwill
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: Judge Blocks NY State From Turning Over Trump’s Tax Returns To Congress, also, Fauxcahontas Says She’ll Keep America Safe By Giving Enemies A Free First Nuclear Strike
Megan McArdle: Democrats, Welcome To Your Very Own TEA Party Problem
Mark Steyn: Guardians Of The Theocracy, also, Self-Knitting Antimacassars

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‘Stupid and Crazy’: Debates Expose Democrat Party at War With Itself

Posted on | August 2, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Stupid and Crazy’: Debates Expose Democrat Party at War With Itself

 

After Marianne Williamson emerged as the surprise winner of Tuesday’s Democrat presidential debate, the second night’s performance on Wednesday saw Joe Biden get tag-teamed by his rivals, and Tulsi Gabbard turning the tables on Kamala Harris. Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) have become dismayed by these donnybrooks:

Democratic lawmakers were left shaken and worried by Wednesday night’s bruising presidential debate, which left some fearing the fight will hurt the party and result in a damaged nominee.
Senate Democrats are frustrated that candidates are spending too much time and effort attacking each other for relatively small policy differences, while not focusing their ire on President Trump. . . .
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) blamed the debate moderators for much of the negativity.
“I think these debates are really silly,” he said. “Just the incessant focus on these relative minor divisions between candidates might make for good TV but I don’t think gives people an accurate portrayal of the stakes of this election.”
Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) also voiced concern about the tone of the debates, in what could have been a signal to the candidates.
“No circular firing squads,” he said during an interview Thursday with SiriusXM’s Joe Madison.

Anything that makes Chuck Schumer unhappy is good for America. Likewise, we should be encouraged by the gloomy mood at MSNBC:

Several MSNBC personalities took aim at the 2020 Democrats for leveling several “attacks” at the Obama administration over President Trump.
“Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough took to Twitter and and repeatedly slammed the Democrats for challenging policies under President Obama like Obamacare and immigration.
“Ok. Let me get this straight. Democrats hate Obamacare AND hated his immigration policies? What planet are they from?” Scarborough tweeted. “You know you have extreme ideologues running for president when @BarackObama is a punching bag for being too conservative. [For what it’s worth], President Obama is the only Democrat to twice win a majority of the vote since FDR (and is still hugely popular in the Democratic Party.) Not. Smart.”
He added, “These candidates are attacking Barack Obama’s policy positions more than Donald Trump. That is politically stupid and crazy…. Democrats who think trashing @BarackObama is a political winner, will be the political losers.”
MSNBC host Joy Reid expressed a similar sentiment on her network’s post-debate analysis.
“It was weird for me to watch about 40, almost 40 minutes of primary attacks on the Obama administration’s policies. It was odd,” Reid told the panel, later citing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s attacks on Obamacare. “So it was an odd strategy to me… It’s almost as if the debate forgot who is president because the attacks on Donald Trump- I don’t remember his name being mentioned that much.”
Former Missouri senator-turned MSNBC commentator Claire McCaskill also called the repeated attacks on the Obama administration the “weirdest thing.”
“The weirdest thing to me which I’m having a hard time with is… is it a smart strategy to attack the Obama administration?” McCaskill asked. “I mean, this is a Democratic president elected twice. I think he’s the only Democrat we’ve had with the margins he’s had since FDR that did that, remains wildly popular in the Democratic Party.”

Democrat strategist and longtime Clinton adviser Paul Begala had this exchange Thursday with Jake Tapper:

BEGALA: This is my problem with the whole two-day debate. I believe many of these candidates seeking to win the nomination are setting themselves up to lose the presidency to Donald Trump.
TAPPER: By running so far to the left?
BEGALA: Yes.

 

Obama’s former chief of staff was also demoralized:

Rahm Emanuel told “WSJ at Large” on FOX Business that it’s foolish to try to paint Obama’s record negatively in order to attack his former vice president and now presidential hopeful, Joe Biden.
“The guy (Obama) is 90 something percent (in popularity ratings) among Democrats,” he argued. “The most successful progressive, prolific president who had an incredible Chief of Staff, let me say that– since the Great Society. What are they doing?”
Emanuel, who was a member of the House of Representatives Opens a New Window. before his stint at the White House, then became mayor of Chicago, said Democrats would be crazy to separate themselves from the former president.
“Every element of progressivity, from literally (Woodrow) Wilson to Teddy Roosevelt to Franklin Roosevelt to the Great Society and forward builds on the progress of the generations before for generations to come. This is nuts!” . . .
Earlier in the week, he sent a memo to the candidates saying, “If you win the nomination in a way that forecloses a path to victory in the general election, we will lose, and your name will go down in infamy.”

Perhaps the best news of all is that David Brooks of the New York Times — whom I hate like God hates sin — has endorsed Williamson:

Trump is a cultural revolutionary, not a policy revolutionary. He operates and is subtly changing America at a much deeper level. He’s operating at the level of dominance and submission, at the level of the person where fear stalks and contempt emerges. . . .
In Freudian terms, he’s operating on the level of the id. . . .
The Democrats have not risen to the largeness of this moment. They don’t know how to speak on this level. . . .
It is no accident that the Democratic candidate with the best grasp of this election is the one running a spiritual crusade, not an economic redistribution effort. Many of her ideas are wackadoodle, but Marianne Williamson is right . . .
“We’ve never dealt with a figure like this in American history before. This man, our president, is not just a politician; he’s a phenomenon. And an insider political game will not be able to defeat it. … The only thing that will defeat him is if we have a phenomenon of equal force, and that phenomenon is a moral uprising of the American people.”

“Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.”



 

Category: Debates, Democrats, Election, Media Bias

Her Superhero Name Was ‘Whorella’

Posted on | August 1, 2019 | 3 Comments

“The fact is the ‘respectable girl from a nice family in Connecticut’ ship has already sailed.”
— Ella Dawson, July 2014

Longtime readers will remember Ella Dawson, the 2014 alumna of elite Wesleyan University ($70,704 a year, including room and board) who made her name a synonym for herpes and got a personal fan letter from Hillary Clinton. After writing about Rasheem Bodiford, who was sentenced to prison for failing to inform his partners of his HIV infection, I got wondering what the notoriously diseased feminist has been up to lately, and it turns out she’s writing a book:

Let’s quote her inspirational prose:

“I received the message loud and clear that girls who were sexual, girls who wanted sex, girls who were aggressive and talkative and confident, were those girls. . . .
“I did the bitter calculus of being a teenage girl and decided to embrace my destined and disdained sluttiness. I even made up a superhero identity for myself: Whorella.”

It was not just random coincidence, you see, that she was diagnosed with genital herpes during her junior year at Wesleyan. The law of large numbers and her own ignorance (condoms don’t prevent herpes or HPV) made it more or less inevitable that “Whorella” would catch something.

Nowadays, she’s offering relationship advice:

I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but you deserve better. You deserve a partner who texts you back.
Maybe not immediately, maybe not every single time, but reliably and honestly and with care. You deserve someone who wants you to feel secure and heard, who answers your questions and asks you about your day and your mood and sends you memes they saw on Instagram. You deserve someone who wants to talk to you, no — someone who wants to talk with you, never just at you, no monologues or one-sided status updates, no director’s commentary on your life. You deserve conversation, flirtation, consideration. You deserve all of the f–ks, my friend.
I promise you, you’re not being too demanding.

You can read the rest of that, but notice her use of the word “deserve.”

If I were to write an essay advising young men of what they deserve from women, I’d be accused of promoting “male entitlement.” But I’d never dream of writing such an essay, because that would be bad advice. The key to happiness is low expectations. You are less likely to be disappointed with women if you don’t expect too much of them. The problem many guys have is that they have a more or less rational expectation of reciprocity: “I do this for her, she will do that for me.” But there is no standardized exchange rate, and women’s innate solipsism tends to blind them to any sense of obligation to return value for value.

While my dating years took place before the advent of the cell phone and texting, the shrewdest voices in the manosphere advise guys to strive for a 3-to-1 ratio — for every three texts she sends, give her one in return. But my own advice, to my young sons, is not to let girls waste your time with a lot of silly texting, as if you’ve got nothing better to do than engage in constant relationship management. Convey the idea that you’re a busy man with important things to do, and can’t be bothered dealing with all this emotional stuff. She needs to grow up and learn to deal with her own problems, rather than being a source of endless drama.

As to what any guy might “deserve,” well, you’re never going to be treated well if you allow her to treat you badly. Learn to walk away. A big mistake guys make in dating is what Rollo Tomassi calls “oneitis,” concentrating all their energy on their current love interest, when it would be wiser to cultivate a sort of harem of potential girlfriends (what Rollo calls the “plates” approach). Even if you’re really crazy in love with your girlfriend, it’s dangerous not to have a backup plan in case things don’t work out. Having other options is what gives you the freedom to walk away if your girlfriend starts demanding too much or otherwise treating you badly.

“You deserve a partner who texts you back”

Whatever. Good luck with that, Whorella.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

‘Florida Man’ Strikes Again

Posted on | August 1, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Just another random coincidence:

A Florida man who had sex with two women while knowingly withholding his HIV positive status was sentenced to a decade behind bars.
Rasheem Ikey Bodiford, 27, was sentenced Friday after being found guilty on three felony counts of having sex with another person without notifying that person of his condition. He was sentenced last week to 10 years in state prison and five years probation.
According to an arrest report obtained by the Pensacola News Journal, Bodiford encountered the two women in the period from September 2016 to October 2017 and, during that time, failed to inform them he carried the virus which can lead to AIDS.
One of the victims told police that, in June 2017, she tested positive for HIV and that her last sexual partner was Bodiford. She also told law enforcement that she saw him in possession of medication used to treat the condition and he told her he was simply selling the drug for his uncle.
Police say Bodiford was aware of his HIV status since September 2016.

Of course, risk of sexually transmitted disease is not random. In 2017, black people, who are 13% of the U.S. population, “accounted for 43% (16,694) of HIV diagnoses” in the nation, according to the CDC. New HIV infections among heterosexual women (6,341 in 2017) were more than twice as common as among heterosexual men (2,829), and the number among black heterosexual women (4,008) was more than four times the number among white heterosexual women (999).

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)



 

Category: Crime, Florida

In The Mailbox: 08.01.19

Posted on | August 1, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Tulsi Takes On Kamala
Twitchy: Rep. Elijah Cummings’ House Burglarized, Trump Tweets Blamed For Incitement
Louder With Crowder: Oh No! Gillette Lost A Lot Of Money This Year. Billions!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: For Want Of A Good Mission
American Greatness: Social Media’s Transition From Novelty To Malignancy
American Power: Fossil Fuels Are Not an Existential Threat
American Thinker: Thank You, Rep. Ilhan Omar
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Indentured Servitude News
Babalu Blog: Mike Pompeo – The Cuban People Deserve To Have Their Human Rights Respected
BattleSwarm: Quick Gabbard v. Harris Debate Roundup
Camp of the Saints: On Communism & Our Malicious Mediocrities
CDR Salamander: ISAFication Of The Strait Of Hormuz
Da Tech Guy: Bottom Line From Yesterday’s Debate? They KNEW Obama & Obamacare Sucked
Don Surber: Marianne Williamson’s Path
Dustbury: A Consistent Asshat
First Street Journal: CNN Tries To Sell The Notion That Obama Was “A Responsible Center-Left Leader”
The Geller Report: Germany Rocked After Syrian Migrant Hacks Man To Death With Sword In Broad Daylight, also, Man Beaten In NYC For Wearing MAGA Hat
Hogewash: Moar Exoplanets, also, An Interesting Perspective
Hollywood In Toto: How Carr’s True Believer Connects To Real Military Vets
Joe For America: Baltimore Took In $1.8 Billion Of Obama’s Stimulus – Where’s The Money Now?
JustOneMinute: This Is Why We Watch – Biden v. Inslee
Legal Insurrection: Michael Moore Claims Only Michelle Obama Can Save Us From Another Four Years Of Trump, also, HUD Administrator Blasts Occasional Cortex For Prioritizing Border Over Rat Problem In Her Own District
The PanAm Post: Iranian Con Man Promotes Henri Falcon In U.S. As Venezuelan President
Power Line: It’s Official – Philosophy Is Lost, also, A Question CNN Didn’t Ask Fauxcahontas
Shark Tank: Florida County Backs Confederate Statue
Shot In The Dark: At Long Last, “Honesty” (Of A Sort) (Kind Of)
The Political Hat: Omnibus Blues For RKBA In Nevada
This Ain’t Hell: Trump Nixes NAM Awards For Prosecutors Tied To SEAL Case
Victory Girls: The Net Closes In On James Comey
Volokh Conspiracy: Gundy & The Future Of Delegation
Weasel Zippers: Biden Says No Room For Fossil Fuels In His Administration, also, FBI & Police Raid Buttigieg’s South Bend Housing Authority Offices
Megan McArdle: Kamala Harris Turns Out To Have A Glass Jaw
Mark Steyn: Tongue Tied (Part Seven of Three Men In A Boat)

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | August 1, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

In 2009, a Washington State judge granted Trevor Allen Thompson’s petition to change his name to “Paige Adele Thompson.” Thompson’s family had moved from Arkansas to the Seattle area when he was a boy and he decided to remain there after his family moved back to Arkansas. Thompson was emotionally disturbed and had been hospitalized for mental health problems. In June of this year, Thompson wrote “that she told her counselor she ‘regretted transitioning fully. And that I felt stuck with the decision I made. And wished I knew what my options were as far as detransitioning.’” Thompson hadn’t held a job in three years and was living in a rundown house on the south side of Seattle with roommates who were also transgender. His/“her” last job, however, was as a computer engineer for Amazon Web Services:

A Seattle-based transgender former Amazon engineer has been arrested for allegedly hacking Capital One bank’s systems to steal data it was storing on Amazon’s Web Services cloud.
Paige Thompson, 33, was arrested for breaking into the bank’s systems to steal the addresses, phone numbers and names of 100 million people in the United States.
A portion of that figure — 140,000 — also had their social security numbers and 80,000 had their credit card details accessed.
Thompson allegedly pulled it off between March and July of this year by breaking into the bank’s servers through a misconfiguration in its firewall.
The data was being stored on Amazon’s Web Services cloud but Amazon insists it is not to blame for the hack and that she exploited Capital One’s systems to access it. Capital One admits that it was a fault in its infrastructure, and not Amazon’s, which led to the breach.

More background:

She spent her days holed up in a lavender-painted bedroom, playing the video game Counter-Strike and pounding out posts that were variously boastful or tortured on different social-media channels.
Before being charged with a massive hack of Capital One Financial Corporation’s computer network, Paige Thompson, 33, lived with three roommates in a run-down house in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of south Seattle. Her roommates said they met at a support group for transgender people; Thompson identified herself as a transgender woman on Twitter.
They described Thompson as a brilliant introvert, an Arkansas native who came west with her mother as a child and decided to stay even after her family went home. She began identifying as a woman about a decade ago, said the roommates, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation by law enforcement. . . .
Since her arrest, the information that has emerged about Thompson’s life, both online and in interviews, is of a computer engineer steeped in technical know-how but struggling to find stability in her professional and personal life. She jumped from job to job and the last one listed on her resume, a systems engineer at Amazon.com, ended almost three years ago.
“Pretty much the whole time it seemed like she had a lot going on personally and just a lot of things that were interrupting her ability to work,” said Jamie Kahler, who ran a team about four years ago that included Thompson at ATGStores.com, an online home-furnishing site.
Thompson’s social media postings show her struggling with life’s challenges. On Twitter, where she gave herself the handle “erratic,” she agonized over having to euthanize her sick cat, Millie, criticized her own looks and bemoaned her lack of dating options.

Still more background:

Sarah Stensberg said her husband, Kevin, met Thompson in a coding group for young people in the Seattle area and lived with her for a while. Thompson’s abusive behavior eventually led the couple to cut off contact in 2011, she said. Prior to that, they sometimes took Thompson to Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center for mental treatment.
“We’d get her into inpatient treatment, we’d visit her, and she’d seem to be doing well,” Stensberg said in an interview Tuesday. “Then she’d go off the deep end. We couldn’t deal with it anymore.”
Thompson repeatedly stalked and harassed them, the couple said, sending them multiple insulting and demeaning messages, until they moved to get away. Then, they allege, she used geolocation tracking from online postings to find their new home. Last fall, the couple obtained protection orders against Thompson, which the AP reviewed along with their petitions.

Obvious question: How could someone so dangerously crazy be hired as an engineer by a multi-billion-dollar company like Amazon?

Oh, that’s right — “diversity”!

Filling the LGBTQ quota, you see. And it’s all fun and games until the deranged tranny hacks the data of 100 million people.



 

Category: Crime, The Transgender Cult, Washington State

In The Mailbox: 07.31.19

Posted on | August 1, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.31.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: “Flash-bang first, ask questions later” is Not a Good Policy
EBL: Elijah Cummings Calls His Own Congressional District “Drug Infested”
Twitchy: Democrats Surprisingly Target Obama At CNN Debate
Louder With Crowder: Actually, Real Parents Don’t “Transition” Their Young Children

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Giving Power To The Deviants
American Greatness: Donald Trump At The Overton Window
American Thinker: Fox Veers Left
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Socialist Dictatorship Refuses Reforms To Stave Off Economic Collapse, Imposes Price Controls Instead
Baldilocks: Ben Carson, Baltimore, & Representation
BattleSwarm: Marianne Williamson Dominates Second Debate
Camp of the Saints: The Menace That Is Red China
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part LXXXIII
Da Tech Guy: Obama Created Racists?
Don Surber: An Economy So Good Democrats Won’t Mention It
Dustbury: War On Google?
First Street Journal: How Do Celebrities Show Up To A “Climate Change” Conference?
The Geller Report: FL Muslim Attacks Man, Screaming “We Are Coming For You, Trump!” also, Rachel Maddow Loses Over 800,000 Viewers In Six Months
Hogewash: Maybe I Shouldn’t Have Skipped The Debate, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day (featuring Johnny Atsign!)
Hollywood In Toto: Here’s Why Liberals Fear The Babylon Bee
Joe For America: The Truth Behind Obama’s $50 Million Deal With Netflix
Legal Insurrection: Andrew Yang Accuses DNC Of Changing Rules To Keep Him Out Of Third Debate, also, Federal Judge Dismisses DNC Hacking Lawsuit Against Trump Team
The PanAm Post: Venezuela On The Verge Of Losing Citgo After Recent Legal Ruling
Power Line: About Last Night, also, Democratic Debate Night II – Where Mediocrity Is Good Enough
Shark Tank: Progressives Clash With Moderates, Trump Wins
Shot In The Dark: Deutsch, Delusion, & Berg’s Seventh Law
STUMP: Trump Tweets & Public Pensions – Is CalSTRS Really A Long-Term Investor?
The Political Hat: A Satire Of Wokeness
This Ain’t Hell: Trump’s Cummings Tweets Setting Stage For Presidential Campaign, also, B52 Practice Bombing Run
Victory Girls: Judge Dismisses Case, DNC Weeps
Volokh Conspiracy: Amity Shlaes Responds On Schechter
Weasel Zippers: MSNBC Claims President Trump Wants To “Exterminate” Black People, also, Tulsi Gabbard Wipes Out Kamala The Cop In Tonight’s Debate
Mark Steyn: That’s One Angry Flower Girl

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‘Dark Psychic Forces’ 2020

Posted on | July 31, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

As John Hoge reminds his readers this morning, when I went to South Carolina in March to cover Marianne Williamson’s presidential campaign, I was the only national reporter covering her. Nobody thought she had a chance, but last night in the CNN debate, she got the biggest applause of the night with her advocacy of slavery reparation and her line blaming Trump’s success on “dark psychic forces”:

We have an administration that has gutted the Clean Water Act. We have communities particularly communities of color and disadvantaged communities all over this country who are suffering from environmental injustice. I assure you I lived in Grosse Point [Michigan], what happened in Flint would not have happened in Gross Point, this is part of the dark underbelly of American society, the racism, the bigotry, and the entire conversation that we’re having here tonight, if you think any of this wonkiness is going to deal with the dark psychic force of the collectivized hatred that this President is bringing up in this country, then I’m afraid that the Democrats are going to see some very dark days. We need to say it like it is, it’s bigger than Flint. It’s all over this country. It’s particularly people of color. It’s particularly people who do not have the money to fight back, and if the Democrats don’t start saying it, why would those people feel they’re there for us? And if those people don’t feel it, they won’t vote for us and Donald Trump will win.

 

Here is the thing I keep reminding my conservative friends: You have to keep in mind that this is about Democratic primary voters, the kind of highly motivated hard-core leftists who will turn out on a snowy February night to participate in an Iowa precinct caucus. If you tell me that Marianne Williamson is “too crazy” to win, my answer is, “You’re telling me Elizabeth Warren is not crazy? Bernie Sanders is not crazy?”

If candidates like Warren and Sanders now define what is “mainstream” for Democrats, there is no feasible limit on what is “mainstream,” and the only reason Marianne Williamson is considered a long-shot candidate is because the extremist left-wing fringe has become overcrowded.

People who calculate the odds according to standard political analysis always miss the rising forces of a new era, which is why almost none of the pundits took Donald Trump seriously when he came riding down that escalator in June 2015. You may not attribute Trump’s startling victory to “collectivized hatred,” but it did signify a seismic shift in American politics, and if Democrats don’t adjust to this shift, they will indeed “see some very dark days,” as Williamson says.



 

Category: Debates, Democrats
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