The Fusion Party

The Fusion Party. By Vistor Davis Hanson

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448084/progressive-media-democrats-form-new-anti-trump-party?utm_source=jolt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=170530_Jolt&utm_term=Jolt

Excerpt: It is no longer a liberal (a word now replaced by progressive) political alternative to conservatism as much as a cultural movement fueled by coastal elites, academics, celebrities — and the media. Its interests are not so much political as cultural. True to its new media identity, the Democratic party is against anything Trump rather than being for something. It seeks to shock and entertain in the fashion of a red-carpet celebrity or MSNBC talking head rather than to legislate or formulate policy as a political party. The result is that in traditional governing terms, the Democratic party has recalibrated itself into near political impotency. Barack Obama ended the centrism of Bill Clinton and with it the prior Democratic comeback (thanks to the third-party candidacies of Ross Perot) from the disastrous McGovern, Carter, Mondale, and Dukakis years.