The same scenario is playing out in the Democratic Party.
Since nominating George McGovern in 1972, the party has moved progressively leftward.
If the Democrats may by now be said to have a center, it cannot hold, as William Butler Yeats has it in his poem "The Second Coming." Among today's Democrats, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity."
By ceding moral authority to the far left, the Democrats have lost the power to counter bizarre proposals with simple common sense.
The Democratic Party is being held hostage to identity politics, so that no national ticket can ever again be without a black or female candidate.
Party members measure the intensity of their idealism by their hatred of Mr. Trump.
Perhaps the only hope is that the Democrats put together a nightmare ticket- Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker, say, or Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris -and the party is so crushingly defeated in November that it returns to its long-lost political seriousness.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-democrats-gave-in-to-radicals-and-gave-up-on-common-sense-11581444825?mod=hp_opin_pos_3
Since nominating George McGovern in 1972, the party has moved progressively leftward.
If the Democrats may by now be said to have a center, it cannot hold, as William Butler Yeats has it in his poem "The Second Coming." Among today's Democrats, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity."
By ceding moral authority to the far left, the Democrats have lost the power to counter bizarre proposals with simple common sense.
The Democratic Party is being held hostage to identity politics, so that no national ticket can ever again be without a black or female candidate.
Party members measure the intensity of their idealism by their hatred of Mr. Trump.
Perhaps the only hope is that the Democrats put together a nightmare ticket- Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker, say, or Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris -and the party is so crushingly defeated in November that it returns to its long-lost political seriousness.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-democrats-gave-in-to-radicals-and-gave-up-on-common-sense-11581444825?mod=hp_opin_pos_3
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