11/9/2018 - David Limbaugh Townhall.com
The fury of leftists is
a constant today, and it's not just because they hate President Donald Trump.
Despite all their dreamy talk of compassion and love, they seem to be a
miserable lot.
Democrats recaptured
control of the House of Representatives this week, and leftists are already
grinding their teeth over Trump and salivating at the prospect of putting him
and Justice Brett Kavanaugh through investigatory and impeachment hell for the
next two years.
You can't help but see
it. Throughout America, leftists are perpetually agitated. They're not happy
unless they're unhappy. They populate protests with their crude gender caps and
scream about perceived slights, discrimination and inequality. They usurp law
enforcement authority to stop traffic in Portland, Oregon. They threateningly
protest at conservative celebrities' homes.
They are not pleased
that the economy is growing and people are prospering under President Trump but
choose instead to mire in angst over alleged income inequality among Americans.
With a Republican president in office, it wouldn't matter if every American
family were earning at least $250,000 a year. As long as some people were
making substantially more, they'd demand remedial government action.
It's true not just of
the economy but also of the environment, abortion, health care, public
education and immigration. Pick any of those issues, among others, and consider
what would happen if Republicans caved on it. Do you think leftists would be
satisfied if the government outlawed the coal industry, mandated prohibitive
automobile emission standards, funded abortion on demand, fully socialized
medicine, doubled the already obscenely bloated federal education budget and
removed all restrictions on our borders? As for the latter, I remind you that
many of them actually advocate the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement -- like the sovereignty-shattering anarchists they are.
It's not just that most
of them are implacable malcontents. It's also that they can't afford for their
constituencies to be satisfied, because their political power hinges on
perpetuating categories of victimhood and assuming de facto guardianship over
them. To us, they preach bipartisanship and collegiality; to their wards, they
proclaim that they are with them and that conservatives are against them.
Consider their
uniformly negative and irrational reaction to the objectively improved economy
under President Trump. It seems that it is not improvement in the lives of
minorities they seek but minorities' permanent dependence on them. They are
utterly unmoved by minority unemployment's being at historic lows and
minorities' wages being at historic highs. Real-world, empirical evidence means
nothing. All that matters is that leftists claim to care more than
conservatives about minorities; minorities must ignore their lying eyes.
Leftists, who now
dominate the Democratic Party, no longer have a vision for the country, other
than to fundamentally transform it -- to divest it of its founding principles.
They profess to be offended by President Trump's goal of making America great
again, but many of them don't believe it was ever that great in the first
place, and they're on a mission to remake it in their image.
Most of them are
outright socialists who don't believe enough in America's uniqueness to care
about protecting its borders. They support ever increasing taxes, but not
because they want to balance the budget or improve people's lives. Rather, they
prefer that the government -- as opposed to individuals -- control the
expenditures of money.
But in the past few
years, the left doesn't spend much time even on these issues. Leftists'
singular focus is on Trump -- getting rid of this monster whose very presence
is destroying their lives. Opposing Trump, his agenda and his appointments and
deriding him around the clock is their be-all and end-all. It is their negative
life force -- the energy that drives and sustains them.
The silver lining to
all this negativity is that they will continue to overplay their hand into the
2020 election, losing credibility and faith with the majority of Americans by
exchanging whatever semblance of optimism they had for the perverse privilege
of obsessing over Trump.
How could a majority of
Americans, even in the modern era, be attracted to a party whose rallying cry
is not a better economy, a stronger America, enhanced freedom and prosperity,
or a more wholesome culture but purging the nation of a president it abhors?
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