The American left elected Donald Trump. They've been voting for him for decades, and at last they've succeeded. If the left's post-election behavior is any indication, they intend to keep doing so.
I write metaphorically, of course. Few leftists actually voted for Trump, but as sure as the sunrise, they elected him. The fact is hardly debatable, as principled leftists like Noam Chomsky, Joan Williams, and Chris Hedges have said.
Here's one example of the process in action: shortly before Election Day in 2000, polls had Green Party candidate Ralph Nader garnering 5%-9% of the popular vote. He got 2.7%. Where did all those votes go? They went to Democratic nominee Al Gore. Liberals who said they were voting Green succumbed to the "lesser of two evils" argument. They didn't like Gore, but they voted for him because, in that year's timeless phrase, "a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush."
Democratic strategists knew they would. The idea that blacks and liberals can be counted on to vote Democratic, irrespective of the actual candidate, has made up the core of the party's strategy since its takeover by the Democratic Leadership Council in 1985.
Back then, Democrats were taking a beating by the GOP because the party was seen to be too liberal, too soft on crime, and insufficiently bellicose. So the DLC moved the party to the right on those issues, secure in the belief that liberal (and black) voters had no choice but to vote Democratic. Bill Clinton's election in 1992 proved the DLC right. Even as Clinton signed NAFTA and the most draconian crime bill in recent memory, and slashed welfare benefits for the poor, leftists marched zombie-like to the polls, pulled the Democratic lever, and celebrated the resulting "victory."
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/12/the_left_elected_trumpand_may_again.html
I write metaphorically, of course. Few leftists actually voted for Trump, but as sure as the sunrise, they elected him. The fact is hardly debatable, as principled leftists like Noam Chomsky, Joan Williams, and Chris Hedges have said.
Here's one example of the process in action: shortly before Election Day in 2000, polls had Green Party candidate Ralph Nader garnering 5%-9% of the popular vote. He got 2.7%. Where did all those votes go? They went to Democratic nominee Al Gore. Liberals who said they were voting Green succumbed to the "lesser of two evils" argument. They didn't like Gore, but they voted for him because, in that year's timeless phrase, "a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush."
Democratic strategists knew they would. The idea that blacks and liberals can be counted on to vote Democratic, irrespective of the actual candidate, has made up the core of the party's strategy since its takeover by the Democratic Leadership Council in 1985.
Back then, Democrats were taking a beating by the GOP because the party was seen to be too liberal, too soft on crime, and insufficiently bellicose. So the DLC moved the party to the right on those issues, secure in the belief that liberal (and black) voters had no choice but to vote Democratic. Bill Clinton's election in 1992 proved the DLC right. Even as Clinton signed NAFTA and the most draconian crime bill in recent memory, and slashed welfare benefits for the poor, leftists marched zombie-like to the polls, pulled the Democratic lever, and celebrated the resulting "victory."
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/12/the_left_elected_trumpand_may_again.html
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