NeverSanders?
Excerpt: Almost everything the Democratic Left said about Donald Trump causing a Republican Party implosion proved untrue—and yet is proving true this year of the Democrats. Trump’s agenda, for the most part, was Reaganesque, with a few important exceptions—closing the border and enforcing immigration law, getting tough with China’s unfair trade policies, restoring assembly and manufacturing jobs to the hollowed-out interior, avoiding optional wars abroad, and trying to drain the proverbial federal swamp of its careerist bureaucrats and revolving-door apparatchiks. Those wrinkles from the Republican agenda, in fact, were consistent with traditional conservative values, and thus even among establishment and mainstream Republicans still polled well enough. That reality later was empowered by Trump’s effort to keep his campaign promises, by an economy at near-record employment, and by foreign policy recalibrations that are starting to win grudging, if unspoken, bipartisan support on China, given news coverage of the Hong Kong crackdown, the reeducation camps, the coronavirus debacle, and the Orwellian surveillance state apparat. [This is worth reading, but.... Though I have great respect for Hanson, I think he is under-estimating the strength and loyalty of Bernie’s supporters. I think the coming election battle will be tough to watch and brutal in its ferocity. When the bat-carrying Amtifa thugs show up at the polling places, there will be blood on the sidewalks in places currently swearing “That can’t happen HERE.” I fear we will see that, yes, it can–and will. Ron P.]
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