Descent Into Progressive Madness
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| Dr. Victor Davis Hanson |
The dinosaurs of the political party desperately seek relevance past times sounding crazier than the novel unhinged base of operations that disrupts Senate hearings, loudly pronounces a novel socialist future, as well as envisions octogenarian Maxine Waters every bit to a greater extent than the futurity of the political party than is septuagenarian Nancy Pelosi. The spectacle is correct out of Euripides’s Bacchae, every bit the creaky old guard of the polis, Tiresias as well as Cadmus, wearing clothing upward inward trendy, ridiculous ritual costumes to stumble along after the racing as well as frenzied immature maenads inward their lethal courtship of suicidal Dionysian madness.
Six-term senator Dianne Feinstein is running against a far to a greater extent than radical Democrat, Kevin de León, inward California’s full general election. (He added the accent as well as the “de” to his call inward midlife, thereby enhancing his ethnic authenticity.) Feinstein’s electrical flow Senate colleague, the junior senator Kamala Harris, has been interrupting, sermonizing, as well as shouting at the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings inward a fashion that generates the media buzz as well as attending unremarkably reserved for supposedly sober as well as judicious old hands similar Feinstein.
Apparently inward reaction to these youthful, far-left challenges, a frustrated Feinstein has decided to descend fifty-fifty lower than Harris, who once, after all, joked nearly killing Trump. (When asked what she would practise if stuck inward an lift alongside Trump as well as Pence, Harris answered, “Does 1 of us get got to come upward out alive?”) Feinstein is forthwith maxim that she has had the novel “evidence” nearly Judge Brett Kavanaugh inward her possession for at to the lowest degree 6 weeks. And now, at the eleventh hr after the confirmation hearings are over, it could gin upward plenty hysteria, without formal refutation, to sink his nomination to the Supreme Court.
Supposedly when Kavanaugh was a 17-year-old inward high schoolhouse (that is 36 years ago), a immature woman mortal beau high-schooler (that is, Christine Blasey Ford, the all of a abrupt identified writer of the complaint) felt that she was sexually harassed past times the teenage Kavanaugh as well as a chum, as well as that at this opportune moment, the traumatic experience of to a greater extent than than iii decades agone has come upward to a boil as well as so should last aired exactly when Kavanaugh is probable to last confirmed. Dozens of high-school friends of Kavanaugh get got offered testimonies that they never heard of whatsoever such assault. His supposed co-defendant adamantly denies the charge. Blasey Ford apparently cannot recall the place or the engagement of the alleged assault. In her originally anonymous accusation, she claimed that she had sought “medical attention” for the attack. In fact, she is apparently referring, less dramatically, to a view xxx years afterwards to her therapist, where she mentioned the incident inward the course of report of human relationship therapy. And yet the therapist’s notes, taken at the fourth dimension of her assertions 6 years ago, practise non back upward her latest version of the teenage Kavanaugh’s alleged assail 36 years ago.
In publicizing the missive of the alphabet anonymously at first, Feinstein apparently had lots of aims too blowing upward the Kavanaugh sure-thing nomination. In the novel progressive globe of Julia Salazars as well as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezes, Feinstein also wants to strut her ossified progressive fides. That is, she seems desperate to remind California voters that patch she may last an 85-year-old white woman, married to a hyper-capitalist billionaire, as well as a longtime resident of a 20-million-dollar Pacific Heights mansion, she is soundless a growling hard-left as well as partisan lioness inward winter.
Feinstein also hopes to exhibit that she is soundless a primal Senate thespian as well as a newsmaker. Recently, nosotros learned that, for nearly twenty years, she was cuckolded past times unknowingly hiring as well as retaining a chauffeur as well as personal gofer who all the patch was a Chinese spy — a disclosure suggesting that the sometime chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee was, well, non exactly so intelligent.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 similarly angry as well as frustrated Democrat, sometime secretarial assistant of the world John Kerry, is non to last outdone either. Recently inward a multifariousness of venues he has confessed that he has kept back-channel communications opened upward alongside Iranian unusual government minister Mohammed Javad Zarif, his sometime partner inward forging the so-called Islamic Republic of Iran deal. Apparently, Kerry is seeking to reassure the Iranians that Trump’s recent cancellation of the bargain is felt to last a error past times sober as well as judicious Washington establishmentarians such every bit himself. Further, if the 2 such transnational professionals tin terminate hold deep-state negotiations apart from as well as reverse to the electrical flow U.S. government, 1 solar daytime calm alongside Tehran volition last restored past times the likes of none other than John Kerry.
As Kerry position it inward bureaucratic lingo: “What I get got done is tried to elicit from him [Zarif] what Islamic Republic of Iran mightiness last willing to practise inward gild to alter the dynamic inward the Middle East for the better.” Translated, “dynamic” way something along the lines of “I am trying to run alongside the Iranians to nullify the electrical flow official policy of the U.S. government.” Paul Manafort was indicted inward constituent for existence an unregistered unusual agent. John Kerry feels that he should last praised every bit paragon of moral virtue for the same offense. Otherwise, America demand non “elicit” anything from Zarif, given that 1 demand alone hold off to the run of the Iranians as well as Hezbollah inward Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, as well as Yemen, as well as survey its missiles as well as surrogate rockets pointed at Israel.
Pause for a instant as well as collate closed to of the assertions of other mainstream Democrats inward recent weeks. Former police professor Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) has claimed that an anonymous op-ed inward the New York Times as well as unsubstantiated charges from unnamed sources inward Bob Woodward’s mass Fear are forthwith grounds for removing from constituent an elected president through the invocation of the 25th Amendment. Follow farther the police professor’s logic: Produce an unsigned accusation or write a mass based on gossip of unnamed informants, and, presto, the president is proven nuts as well as should last removed. I suppose the anonymous op-ed as well as concurrent Woodward exposé fueled past times anonymous sources volition last short-cut substitutes for impeachment as well as a lawsuit inward the Senate.
Senator Cory Booker (D., N.J.) railed long as well as difficult at the Kavanaugh hearing earlier boldly announcing that he was violating Senate rules (“bring it on”) past times bravely releasing classified information for the higher role of destroying Kavanaugh’s chances. Only, he didn’t — Booker knew that his supposedly explosive leaked information had already been declassified as well as was inward fact mundane.
Weirder still, Booker apparently did non grasp or help that the documents reflected positively, non negatively, on Kavanaugh’s character. Psychodrama shortly became farce when Booker chimed upward “I am Spartacus” — every bit if he were a Roman slave willing to last crucified for the regulation of non revealing the truthful identity of the slave leader Spartacus inward his midst. No 1 could kind out the logic of all of Booker’s incoherent metaphors as well as so concluded that patch he was plainly buffoonish, he mightiness last unhinged every bit well.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) used to last known for really piffling other than her past times fiscal improprieties of using her constituent for personal as well as household unit of measurement gain, as well as for her series boilerplate accusations of racism. Recently, however, at 80, she has come upward into her ain every bit a self-appointed spokeswomen of the novel progressive party. In June, she called for thuggish conduct against authorities officials:
The novel heartthrob of the Democratic party, socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, sometime Westchester County resident, promises that a novel generation of socialists such every bit herself volition get got the political party difficult leftward to perpetual electoral dominance. And to bear witness the growing popularity of redistributive socialism, she simply posed alongside a hardhat structure worker inward a chic $3,505 outfit: a Gabriela Hearst “Angela” double-breasted wool-blend blazer ($1,990), Gabriela Hearst pants ($890), as well as closed to Monolo Blahnik shoes ($625). Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 socialist mightiness wonder how many needy children could get got been clothed alongside adequate Walmart ware for $3,505 — 40, 50, or more? Not since the disclosure of Bernie Sanders’s iii homes, or Elizabeth Warren’s past times real-estate success inward flipping houses (“you tin terminate brand big coin buying houses as well as flipping them quickly”) get got nosotros been so personally enlightened nearly the Animal Farm two-legs-for-us/ four-legs-for-them rules of the novel Democratic socialism.
Finally, Occasio-Cortez herself is inward closed to endangerment of existence upstaged past times yet closed to other young, zealous, woman mortal identity-politics socialist: Julia Salazar, candidate for the the world legislature inward New York. Oddly, almost everything that Salazar has said to lift her progressive credentials is untrue — as well as untrue inward a blatant Elizabeth Warren, Ward Churchill, as well as Rachel Dolezel identity-fraud way. Salazar is non an immigrant; she did non grow upward impoverished; she is non constituent Jewish; as well as she did non graduate from Columbia University.
All that nosotros tin terminate say nearly this novel progressivism is the same every bit what nosotros tin terminate say nearly the cult of sanctuary cities, ensuring universal Medicare for all, as well as the sentiment of abolishing ICE: It operates exterior the realm of argue as well as truth every bit it descends into collective madness.
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Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) is a senior fellow, classicist as well as historian at the
as well as Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution where many of his artices are found; his focus is classics as well as state of war machine history..
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