As we approach November 2020, Democrats are having their “October 1917” moment.
Just as the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party back then was
divided between the moderate Mensheviks and the more radical Bolsheviks,
so too the modern American Democratic Party is divided between the
moderate socialists like Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar and Steve Bullock and
the radical socialists like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
Based on what happened during the Russian Revolution a century ago, I
would strongly advise Bullock and Klobuchar (and especially Tim Ryan
and John Delaney) to buy bulletproof vests or seriously consider
relocating to Mexico. That bought Leon Trotsky an extra 10 years before
he was finally dispatched by Comrade Stalin to socialist heaven.
Biden is doing his best to rally the moderate socialists (isn’t that
an oxymoron?), but his willingness to shift positions on fundamental
moral issues suggests that he lacks all conviction, while the worst of
his Bolshevik opponents like Kamala Harris and Sanders are full of
passionate intensity that threatens to overthrow the moral order
altogether.
But maybe that's the point.
Communist agitator Michael Moore, who is in large measure the
theorist of the American left, told Brian Williams on MSNBC following
the second debate, “Only revolution at this point is going to defeat
Donald J. Trump. Only people rising up, and doing the work that needs to
be done, is going to remove him from office. Our side needs to treat
Trump seriously. He’s not a joke anymore. He’s the real deal and he
humiliated all of us by losing the election and then being given the
keys to the Oval Office.”
In case you didn’t figure it out, Trump is playing the role of Czar
Nicholas II in this replay of the Russian Revolution, but he’s proving
much more resilient than the czar, having outwitted and outlasted the
Democrats at every turn so far. Back in 1917, the czar was forced to
abdicate during March. That was the Democrat plan for March this year
too. The Mueller Report was supposed to send Trump into exile or house
arrest or at least into an impeachment trial, but the president
stubbornly refuses to cooperate with his own demise.
Meanwhile, just as in the period between the February Revolution and
the October Revolution in 1917, the “Social Democratic Labour” forces
(hereinafter “the Democrats”) are turning against each other in a
contest of ideological purity. That was on full display on Tuesday and
Wednesday of last week, when even the previously sainted Barack Obama
was under attack. By the end of the second night, if he were still a
saint, it must have been St. Sebastian, pierced by multiple arrows.
Turns out that the signature achievement of his presidency — Obamacare
— was a gift to the big bad insurance industry, and his immigration
policy was a heartless betrayal of the working class. Or something like
that.
What is ironic about how the Democrats want to depose Trump is that,
whereas Nicholas II oversaw the collapse of the Russian economy in World
War I, Donald Trump has led the United States back to prosperity.
Whereas the czar oppressed the lower classes in Russia, this president
has helped African Americans and other minorities achieve greater
economic independence.
A few of the endangered species of moderate Democrats on the debate
stage last week were willing to defend President Obama, but that just
meant they had to be even more vicious in their hatred of President
Trump so they could establish their bona fides as legitimate
revolutionaries. In case there was any doubt, they could just call Trump
a racist or a criminal thug and that settled the matter.
Whoever said the revolution will not be televised must not have heard
about CNN. “The most trusted name in news,” as CNN bills itself,
happily played the role of Pravda in promoting this mindless march
toward dictatorship of the proletariat (don’t worry — it’s temporary!).
The decision to let radical leftist Don Lemon play a neutral journalist
during the debates added insult to injury. It was the equivalent of
asking a shark to host a beach party.
Of course, President Trump took all of this in stride. In fact, he
has encouraged the Democrats to embrace their inner communist (Marianne
Williamson may have taken this a little too literally!) as they march in
lockstep toward their landslide defeat in 2020. Republicans have been a
little slow to recognize Trump’s political genius, but remember that he
was the one who established the coming election as a battle between
capitalism and socialism.
As he said Thursday at his campaign rally in Cincinnati, “Tonight we
renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country ---
never ever ever will it be a socialist country. No matter what label
they use, a vote for any Democrat in 2020 is a vote for the rise of
radical socialism, and the destruction of our great, our beautiful, our
wonderful American dream.”
Is that too much? Is that divisive rhetoric? Yep, it divides the
patriots from the globalists. This is war, but it’s only revolution if
it succeeds. Trump is “all in” to prevent that from happening.
The hand-to-hand combat that Trump engages in with the enemy on a
daily basis is a bit too much for some dainty Republicans, but he’s been
loudly defended by loyalists such as Sen. Steve Daines of my home state
of Montana, who recently introduced a resolution to condemn socialism.
It’s hard to believe we have reached the point, nearly 30 years after
the collapse of the Soviet Union, where we need to take a vote on
whether or not communism sucks, but sadly we do. And even worse, in some
states the outcome of such a vote would be in doubt. It might not even
be able to pass muster in the Democrat-controlled House of
Representatives.
I will wait eagerly to see how many Democratic presidential
candidates have the audacity to vote against the resolution. If they do —
if Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Cory
Booker refuse to vote to condemn socialism — then Trump has already won.
But don’t tell him that. Watching him campaign is too much fun
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