The common hatred of President Donald Trump has united otherwise quite disparate Democratic leaders such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; former Vice President Joe Biden; Sens.
These diverse progressive politicians all shared faith in special counsel Robert Mueller and his "Dream team." They believed over the last two years that the Mueller investigation was slowly grinding down Trump.
The unifying progressive creed assumed that the Mueller's team would eventually find Trump unequivocally guilty of "Collusion" with Russia.
Periodic leaks from Mueller's team during the investigation's 22 months prompted giddy media anticipation that "The walls were closing in on" Trump.
Damning the sure-to-be-impeached Trump was unity enough.
As Mueller was supposedly about to indict Trump, a divisive, hard-left agenda was almost imperceptibly floated to the public: the Green New Deal, reparations for slavery, abortion redefined as permissible infanticide, open borders, packing the Supreme Court with liberal justices, the abolition of the Electoral College and ICE, free college tuition, the elimination of student debt, Medicare for all, a wealth tax, a 70 percent top marginal income tax rate, a 16-year-old voting age, voting rights for ex-felons, and on and on.
While progressives were celebrating the seemingly inevitable Mueller indictment of Trump, they were also increasingly at odds over many of these divisive and mostly unpopular new issues and over the self-created paradoxes of identity politics.
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2019/04/04/with-mueller-hopes-gone-so-goes-progressive-unity-n2544207
These diverse progressive politicians all shared faith in special counsel Robert Mueller and his "Dream team." They believed over the last two years that the Mueller investigation was slowly grinding down Trump.
The unifying progressive creed assumed that the Mueller's team would eventually find Trump unequivocally guilty of "Collusion" with Russia.
Periodic leaks from Mueller's team during the investigation's 22 months prompted giddy media anticipation that "The walls were closing in on" Trump.
Damning the sure-to-be-impeached Trump was unity enough.
As Mueller was supposedly about to indict Trump, a divisive, hard-left agenda was almost imperceptibly floated to the public: the Green New Deal, reparations for slavery, abortion redefined as permissible infanticide, open borders, packing the Supreme Court with liberal justices, the abolition of the Electoral College and ICE, free college tuition, the elimination of student debt, Medicare for all, a wealth tax, a 70 percent top marginal income tax rate, a 16-year-old voting age, voting rights for ex-felons, and on and on.
While progressives were celebrating the seemingly inevitable Mueller indictment of Trump, they were also increasingly at odds over many of these divisive and mostly unpopular new issues and over the self-created paradoxes of identity politics.
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2019/04/04/with-mueller-hopes-gone-so-goes-progressive-unity-n2544207
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