Liberals attack Trump as they did Reagan/caption
The Liberals have not had a new idea since the last Ice Age; and nowadays the mark of a true Liberal is not so much his adherence to a coherent agenda but the intensity of his angers and the alacrity with which he urges impeachment proceedings against a conservative president at the least provocation." The American Spectator" editor in chief author and columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. The Conservative Crack-Up" (1992)
The Washington establishment is glacial in its permanence; defined by its swampy" unwillingness to conform to the will of freedom-loving people who elected a true outsider to the presidency in 2016. Given scribe Tyrrells above insight whos not today instantly reminded of Democrats rabidly anti-Trump rhetoric (abetted by entrenched weak-kneed Republicans)? For context his prophetic genius was actually penned over 25 years ago. It refers to liberals unjustifiable angst over another political upstart: Ronald Reagan. Besides that commonality Donald Trump has another Reaganesque connection: he appropriated his predecessors patriotic 1980s slogan Make America Great Again".
In order to M.A.G.A." as The Great Communicator" Reagan utilized Oval Office addresses to speak directly to the American people. Thus he circumvented the cacophony of Washington naysayers and the largely unfavorable spin of the legacy press. For that same purpose President Trump uses Twitter the 21st century equivalent. For his part Reagan was constantly belittled and attacked for opposing liberalism. Isnt the lefts farcical charge of Trump campaign collusion with Russia the same thing? To that end on June 15th The Donald tweeted:
You are witnessing the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political historyled by some very bad and conflicted people!#MAGA"
Trumps bad people" have reason for concern: their candidates are 0-5 in special congressional elections. If political hell is an Ice Age"a Siberian wasteland for the sidelinedthis is squarely where Democrats find themselves. President Trump as Reagan before him is leading America despite the raging opposition. Hence liberals overblown response a new political malady known as Trump Derangement Syndrome". But what else are backbenchers bereft of constructive ideas to do? They have reconstituted Barack Obamas buck-passing blame Bush" strategy: a distraction from their own obvious policy failures. Combine progressives toxic track records with their equally hateful rhetoricas epitomized by the last administration. That in turn has inspired their alienated self-radicalized followers to perpetrate violent and murderous acts. As a case and point why else would a Bernie Sanders supporter James T. Hodgkinson attempt to massacre a group of Republican lawmakers at a Virginia baseball park on June 14th? To that end Tyrrells ironically titled Washington Times column of June 21st Just another well-intentioned progressive" addresses that disturbing incident. Once again his spot-on assessment is both startlingly predictive and illuminating: Actually that Hodgkinson is pretty much a standard-issue progressive ought to give everyone the creeps. … The angry left".... has been on a steady evolution toward homicide like what Hodgkinson undertook last week for years and there are a lot more Hodgkinsons out there than we care to contemplate." Well R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. would know wouldnt he? What he wrote in 1992 is a snapshot of todays vanquished progressives: all bluster and bravado signifying nothing. Lacking a platform their divisive party has rotted to its core. Unless one considers the superficiality of identity politics or grievance culture a cohesive agenda. Is it any wonder theyre so grossly out of touch in the Trump Age? Clearly Resistance" is a slipshod political strategy; as unlikely to bear fruit as their much beloved impeachment fantasy. Besides gridlock and dysfunction what do they offer? Once again Tyrrells prescient words concerning liberals shenanigans are as true now as they were during Reagans era: They gave themselves over to innuendo misrepresentation and slander; and the conservatives sat quietly by with the American people witnessing an increasingly lurid spectacle." How is that not a blueprint for progressives anti-Trump tactics of 2017? Democrats driven around the bend by those over the hill: Hillary Clinton 69; Bernie Sanders 75; Elizabeth Warren 68; Nancy Pelosi 77 (and for good measure Joe Biden 74). For the iced" leftled astray by political dinosaursTyrrell brilliantly proves the past truly is prologue.David L. Hunter is an Associate Editor at Capitol Hill Outsider. Hes on Twitter and blogs at davidlhunter.blogspot.com. He is published in The Washington Post The Washington Times FrontPage Mag and extensively in Patriot Post Canada Free Press and American Thinker.