The Anti-Trump Party

[Riddick]

They've got a good thing going, so what reason is there to stop?

Excerpted from Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage Magazine:

Some suggested that the Trump era would fundamentally redefine the GOP, but it’s the Democrats that are actually remaking themselves as a permanent anti-Trump party.

One of the first orders of business in the House was a resolution illegally calling on cabinet members to remove President Trump by using the 25th Amendment. Rep. Pelosi and the resolution’s author, Rep. Jamie Raskin, whom the media is touting as a “constitutional scholar”, know quite well that the amendment, introduced because of Eisenhower’s heart attack and JFK’s assassination, protects the succession in case a president becomes medically disabled.

Proposals to have the cabinet use the 25th Amendment to remove a sitting president are sedition. Actually doing it would be a coup. These terms being falsely thrown around by the Democrats would actually apply under the scenario that they are proposing...

...Obviously Pelosi and Raskin aren’t serious. Their resolution is legislative trolling by a political movement exploiting seditious proposals to further divide Republicans and the country.

The impeachment push is just as unserious and also as strategic.

The Trump era has been very good for Democrat fundraising and their media apparatus. Now they envision an anti-Trump era in which President Trump is no longer in office, but always there as a target: an Emmanuel Goldstein figure on display for the permanent Two Minutes Hate orgy.

"In protecting our Constitution and our Democracy, we will act with urgency," Pelosi bleated. "As the days go by, the horror of the ongoing assault on our democracy perpetrated by this President is intensified and so is the immediate need for action."

The threat is urgent. So urgent that it can wait 100 days.

"It just so happens that if it didn't go over there for 100 days, it could -- let's give President-elect Biden the 100 days he needs to get his agenda off and running, and maybe we'll send the articles sometime after that," Rep. James Clyburn, the House Majority Whip, proposed.

Impeachment worked so well last time that the Democrats could go on impeaching President Trump for years. Especially around election years or peak fundraising seasons. And the New York Times and the Washington Post can go on uncovering new fake crimes to impeach him for.

That gives Democrats the best of both worlds, allowing them to monetize Trump Derangement Syndrome, to permanently run against him, without having him in office.

Every few months, the threat of Trump can be revived, and Democrats will rally another impeachment, another set of totalitarian rules, and another fundraising pitch. Their allies in Big Tech will roll out another wave of censorship to cope with the permanent Trump emergency.

“The face will always be there to be stamped upon. The heretic, the enemy of society, will always be there, so that he can be defeated and humiliated over again,” O’Brien said in George Orwell’s 1984. “Goldstein and his heresies will live for ever. Every day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon and yet they will always survive.”

Trump now becomes the permanent emergency, even greater than the coronavirus, that will justify the total power of the Democrats who will go on fighting to save Democracy by killing it.

Their frothing base will be driven into orgies of fury by the daily threat that President Trump will return from Elba unless they send $25 to the DNC right now and abolish the Bill of Rights.

Besides the money and the power, becoming the anti-Trump party papers over the conflicts of a political movement of wealthy elites who exploit the inner city for political power...

...Being anti-Trump resolves all the complicated questions of power and political interests. It elementally simplifies the politics of the Democrats and distracts from their hidden agendas. The more that they hate Trump, the less they have to think about what it is they really stand for. And anti-Trumpism is the best way to radicalize their base into accepting any level of extremism.

The Democrats need President Trump. Their media needs him. And they’re not going to let go...

...Becoming the anti-Trump party will also distract from the sad spectacle of Joe Biden groping women, mumbling randomly through speeches, and finally making way for Kamala. All the talk of the 25th Amendment will help pave the way when it’s actually used as intended to remove Joe from office because he actually will be unable to discharge the duties of his office.

Whatever the GOP becomes in the years to come, the Democrats will be the anti-Trump party. Say what you will, but It has better branding than its actual name: the Socialist party.

[lisa colorado]

It's anti-Trump, but that's just convenient and it's deflection. There's a much better way ahead for those of us who have been burned by both Trump's mistakes, and Anti-Trumpism. Today I was thinking about Donald Trump: Human being. If the Left is one united group, then it's not human anymore. I am a human being. I'm an American.

[Raggedyann]

It's anti-Trump, but that's just convenient and it's deflection. There's a much better way ahead for those of us who have been burned by both Trump's mistakes, and Anti-Trumpism. Today I was thinking about Donald Trump: Human being. If the Left is one united group, then it's not human anymore. I am a human being. I'm an American.

[kbot]

It's anti-Trump, but that's just convenient and it's deflection. There's a much better way ahead for those of us who have been burned by both Trump's mistakes, and Anti-Trumpism. Today I was thinking about Donald Trump: Human being. If the Left is one united group, then it's not human anymore. I am a human being. I'm an American.

Valid points Lisa. I wouldn't be in a rush to paint the Left as one united group - far from it. At this point in time, they may appear that they are one monolithic group, but there are factions and a wide swath representing the traditional Democrat groups ranging from labor to environmentalists to tech, "welfare recipients" to corporate types.

And I would also hasten to add that people on the Left are also human. And American.

[lisa colorado]

I have a couple of friends who are Americans who said it was extreme to liken the MAGAs to Nazis. I appreciate them for what it's worth.

[Raggedyann]

Dear Riddick - The Daniel Greenfield article mentions Biden's groping of women (a stretch) but obviously he, and you I guess, have no issue with Trump's self confession of grabbing women by the genitals. Typical right wing hypocrisy!

[Raggedyann]

It's anti-Trump, but that's just convenient and it's deflection. There's a much better way ahead for those of us who have been burned by both Trump's mistakes, and Anti-Trumpism. Today I was thinking about Donald Trump: Human being. If the Left is one united group, then it's not human anymore. I am a human being. I'm an American.

Valid points Lisa. I wouldn't be in a rush to paint the Left as one united group - far from it. At this point in time, they may appear that they are one monolithic group, but there are factions and a wide swath representing the traditional Democrat groups ranging from labor to environmentalists to tech, "welfare recipients" to corporate types.

And I would also hasten to add that people on the Left are also human. And American.

There's never been much difference between the Republicans and the Democrats in the last 30 years. But Biden just might change this judging by ambitious goals he outlined in his speech yesterday (Jan 14th). The 1.9 Trillion allocated to very needy taxpayers makes more sense to me instead of giving more breaks to the rich, or to the military. Back to sensible priorities.

Trump didn't have any priorities because he had no idea or interest in what was going on in his own country. It didn't suit his idea of how things should be so it didn't exist. Thousands dead, millions starving and no end in sight. Ton of damage done!

[kbot]

There's never been much difference between the Republicans and the Democrats in the last 30 years. But Biden just might change this judging by ambitious goals he outlined in his speech yesterday (Jan 14th). The 1.9 Trillion allocated to very needy taxpayers makes more sense to me instead of giving more breaks to the rich, or to the military. Back to sensible priorities.

Trump didn't have any priorities because he had no idea or interest in what was going on in his own country. It didn't suit his idea of how things should be so it didn't exist. Thousands dead, millions starving and no end in sight. Ton of damage done!

True - I'm hoping Biden goes the FDR route. The times demand something on that scale

[Raggedyann]

There's never been much difference between the Republicans and the Democrats in the last 30 years. But Biden just might change this judging by ambitious goals he outlined in his speech yesterday (Jan 14th). The 1.9 Trillion allocated to very needy taxpayers makes more sense to me instead of giving more breaks to the rich, or to the military. Back to sensible priorities.

Trump didn't have any priorities because he had no idea or interest in what was going on in his own country. It didn't suit his idea of how things should be so it didn't exist. Thousands dead, millions starving and no end in sight. Ton of damage done!

True - I'm hoping Biden goes the FDR route. The times demand something on that scale

Yes, now more than ever. If they don't help these people they might just join the MAGA crowd and go after the powers that be too.