I & I Editorial BoardNow that the Republicans have wrapped up their hugely successful convention and as calls for President Joe Biden to step down are accelerating, the question that must be asked is: Can the Democratic Party survive? Donald Trump made one key decision this week that could seal the party’s fate.
First, some history.
When Ronald Reagan won the Republican Party’s nomination in 1980, Democrats were in a similar bind as they are today. The party was in disarray, the nation fed up with clueless leaders, and voters were ready for the bold conservative leadership Reagan promised.
But Reagan made one fatal mistake.
After he’d won the nomination, he still hadn’t decided on a running mate, and a scramble ensued. Reagan had the chance to nominate a smart, talented – and young – conservative who shared his vision and would build on it. Instead, he listened to party insiders who said he needed to “broaden his base” by naming an establishment Republican and he picked George H.W. Bush.
This was the worst possible choice. Bush was an establishment hack, an inside-the-Beltway elitist, and the guy who had handed the left its best attack line – “voodoo economics.”
As soon as Reagan was gone, establishment Republicans regained power, shoved conservatives to the side, and systematically undermined Reagan’s achievements, all while mouthing conservative platitudes they knew could win elections.
They turned the GOP from a landslide-winning party to one that has managed to win the popular vote only once since 1988.
We are at a similar crossroads today.
Despite having won five of the last eight presidential elections, the Democratic Party today is in far worse shape than it was in 1980.
It has been completely overrun by its America-hating, DEI-ESG-CRT-socialist-Marxist-spewing radical fringe, which obsesses over things such as “transgender” rights and a phony climate crisis instead of jobs and opportunity.
Democrats don’t even speak the same language as the working class anymore, which helps explain why the head of the Teamsters Union spoke at the Republican convention — for the first time ever — saying how Trump “truly cares about working people.” (To which the Democrats responded with anger and a sense of betrayal, as though they own union workers.)
Biden has been reduced to buying votes with hundreds of billions of dollars in borrowed money, and has been reduced to calling anyone who isn’t sufficiently woke a fascist.
Today’s Democratic Party is so devoid of talent that it handed the nomination to an 81-year-old who can barely put two words together. Democrats are now running around like Keystone Cops trying to find their way out of this mess — faced with the even more dismal prospect of nominating the supremely unqualified Kamala Harris.
To sum up, the Democratic Party is ripe for the taking.
The second reason that Democrats may be on the road to ruin is Trump’s pick for his running mate.
In an editorial this week, we said that Trump’s decision to tap J.D. Vance for the job was a political “masterstroke.”
But it also shows that Trump learned from history. He is thinking less about this election and more about the ones to come. Like a good executive, Trump is grooming the next generation of leaders who can carry his vision forward.
True, Vance was once a never-Trumper. But he came to realize that he and Trump were aligned on all the important issues long before Trump selected him. That’s in stark contrast to H. W. Bush, who pledged to support Reagan’s agenda only if Reagan named him as his running mate.
At the Republican National Convention earlier this week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recounted how the Democratic Party in his state now “lies in ruins, the left is in retreat,” for which his bold leadership deserves credit. “Electing Donald Trump,” he said, “gives us the chance to do this all across America.”
He’s right, and Trump is off to a good start.
His decision to place Vance — a millennial who is just 39 years old — on the ticket could turn out to be one of the wisest of his career, if indeed it does usher in an era of unbroken conservative governorship.
Of course, anything can happen. Trump could lose the election. His second term could be a disaster. Vance could fall to some catastrophic scandal.
But at the very least, conservatives for the first time in decades have a reason to hope that a century of losing ground to the left may finally be coming to an end.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
We can only hope!
As I&I suggests, we conservatives will hope for the best. But as long as the Progressive Wing of the Democratic Party controls the rudder, we’ll plan for the worst!
From your keyboard to God’s ears!
The Democrat party cannot survive without election fraud. Stop that and they’ll be done for good.
Never misunderestimate the power of the stupid party to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.
So the part of trans kids, take parental rights away, DWEI secret service agent gum chewers who cant holster a gun, 96 different sexes, preferred pronouns, screaming obese single women, deranged divorced middle aged women bitter at the world, lesbians who hate men being men, simp males and wimps who sit behind their women, useless old school attacks on outdated ideals, is falling part?
Golly.
saying the GOP didn’t win the popular vote after 1988 is slightly a distortion. 1992 and 1996 that was due to Ross Perot running as a third party candidate. Which, when considered changes the viewpoint of history. After 1976, the Democrats did not actually carry the county until 2008. And that seems to have been a phenomena based upon Mr. Obama’s race and a turnout level of Black Americans over 70%. (No White Democrat ever got higher than 58% black turnout in history…until Mr. Biden miraculously overperformed in six swing state urban vote centers that unilaterally shut down on election night). Take Obama’s high turnout as a one-time unique event for Black America, and take Mr. Biden’s bellwether defying 90% turnout in Milwaukee as wide-spread illegalities (proven in Wisconsin Legal case – Teigen vs. WEC) and you have a remarkable view that the Democrat Party is not successful at all since Reagan.
What our country really needs is an ideological divergence.. The problem for Democrats (and to a lesser degree Republicans) is they are composed of varies Ideologies that are very often not compatible…
For example, the old school Blue Dog Union Democrat still exists… These are true moderates, they are patriotic, they love America, they just fall on a more liberal side of social issues/policies… These folks used to encompass the vast majority of the Democratic party… It is why those of us who are middle age and older look back into the past and feel like there was not such an ideological divide between the two parties… Because there wasn’t… That party was hijacked and there was a swift rise in the Far left “entitlement” ideology… These are not true Democrats… they are Socialists, Marxists and Communists who carefully and quietly weaseled their way into the party because they could not have hoped to rise so high had they been honest and championed the ideology they actually supported. They are actually incompatible with what we think of as true Democrat ideology and until the true Democrats recognize this and expel them from the party the decline will continue… Think of it like this… Nobody likes it when they order a Large pizza with pepperoni and extra cheese… but when it is delivered they open the box and find a small pizza with extra anchovies and mushrooms… This is what the leaders of the current Democrat party are doing… they are promising one thing and delivering something totally different.
What we really need is a more distinct separation of the parties and ideologies… Go ahead and have a Socialist Party, a Communist Party, a Libertarian Party, a Constitutional Party… allow them their soapbox, allow them on the ballots, embrace the differences and then run on or vote the platform you believe in… Let the people with fully and transparent knowledge of the differences, decide what they want leading us… Then agree to respect the will of the people.
Instead we have 10 distinctive and largely incompatible ideologies all wearing the mask of Democrat or Republican while lying and suppressing their true agendas, just so they can garner the support necessary to win control…
The Democrat party is in disarray now because it just so happens their party has the most warring factions within it all vying for control… and unless something changes it will continue to get worse for them… and it very well could destabilize and destroy the party all together if it is not addressed soon.
No. Michelle will step in to save the party. With Gavin as her VP, they will forgo the debates and embark on a star studded “Listening” campaign tour of the country. Big tech and media will go into overdrive hyping these two as the new saviors. Since the election is already fixed they just have to make it believable that Trump lost to Michelle/Gavin 2024, which in one month from now, we will forget the events of Butler, Penn.
There are other bright spots and they point to a shift in the monolithic democratic media. Sites like Semafor, The Free Press and Racket News have liberals taking a more moderate and balanced stance. Good news, IMO.
One important factor for a VP is the gravitas to be considered president, not just if something happens to the president but continuing his legacy. It will take more than 4 years to try to fix the Biden disaster. If Vance does a good job he will become the prime candidate in 2028. Pense nor Harris fit the bill. Neither did Biden for Obama and you can definitly see the result of his screwups. 12 years of Trump – Vance can start to get back on the right track.
I remember how after the Contract with America won the House and the Senate. Later, I saw bumper stickers exclaiming “Someday We Will Hunt Liberals With Dogs” and thought to myself that it was a little early to be proclaiming total victory.
I hope the democrats lose by a landslide and it causes the party to split apart into several parties. Let the Greens and radical left form new parties. Maybe the people remaining will be able to form a party that puts America and Americans first.
Is This The End Of The Road For The Democratic Party?
Hope so!! The traitors!
BTW, how can the I & I Editorial Board write this article saying, “a phony climate crisis,” and post nutty climate change articles as they did on July 16; Our Understanding Of How To Modulate Climate Change Is Ballooning??
https://issuesinsights.com/2024/07/16/our-understanding-of-how-to-modulate-climate-change-is-ballooning/
Facebook is blocking reposts of the article. Not sure why.
I copied the link and posted it on FB just now. Worked OK.
There is no Democratic Part. It’s the Democrat Party, which has become the opposite of democratic.