How does one distill the worldview of the Democrats vying for their party’s presidential nomination?
Outrace each other on racial righteousness?
End Anglo-America? Welcome The World? Evict the unborn? Speak Spanish; English is your second language?
All the above—and worse.
On display, again, during the second in a series of Democratic primary debates were the racial (read anti-white) dynamics.
Genial uncle Joe Biden, a meek WASP, bowed and scraped to his multicultural rivals, whereupon they set upon him like a flash mob; a multicultural mugging, Pat Buchanan called it.
Race—more accurately, anti-white politics—is the Democrats' central cri de coeur. They have no other passion other than hounding and excommunicating others for what are thought crimes—for thinking, speaking or tweeting in politically unpleasing ways.
But practicing ageism gives these social-justice warriors no pause. There’s no social justice for the aged in Democratic politics.
Leading the purge of the party’s elders was Eric Swalwell, a nasty bit of work who had mercifully dropped out after the first round of debates, late in June. At the time, Swalwell had demanded that older Democrats “pass the torch.” “[I]t's time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans."
"If we are going to solve the issue, pass the torch. If we are going to solve climate chaos, pass the torch. If we want to end gun violence and solve student debt, pass the torch."
Swalwell obviously thought such ugly sloganeering was a winning strategy. And who can blame him? However, the representative from northern California galvanized nobody with his call to expunge Democrats in their dotage.
Mr. Nasty is gone, and Democratic voters are, so far, sticking with the safe bet: an old, white American.
Are these hypocrites suggesting that there’s something confidence-inspiring about this much-maligned cohort?
The women on the stage, the lovely Tulsi Gabbard and the well-mannered Marianne Williamson excepted, alternated between the roles of shrew, scold and bully (of old, white men, naturally).
Following Kamala Harris’ lead, the insufferable Kirsten Gillibrand mooed about an old Biden op-ed in which he had warned that women entering the workforce would imperil the family. Who will write the chapter about women like Gillibrand who enter politics and imperil the nation?
For comedic relief, consider the choreography that must have gone into positioning the oddball candidates, striding onto the Fox Theatre stage in Detroit. One could hardly place mini-man Pete Buttigieg alongside candidates who’d stare down at tiny Pete from vertiginous heights.
Height, however, did nothing to increase a tall Democrat’s stature. The group’s pathological, self-immolating progressivism was the great leveler, although an unspoken pack hierarchy was certainly apparent among the candidates. Naturally, that pecking order is racially based.
The culturally more exotic candidates—Harris, Booker and Castro—were the undeclared top dogs. The commonplace, pale-faced Democrats were the political underdogs, with less street cred.
And so it went. The over-crowded Democratic field rabbited on in unison about Trump’s racism and their own grand plans for state-run everything.
Most significant were the contradictions. Bernie lamented that 500,000 Americans live on the streets, but saw no inconsistencies in inviting the world’s poor to settle the same streets.
The same “quality” of contradiction came from Kamala Harris. In response to Gabbard’s evisceration of her record as a fair prosecutor, Harris later told an adoring press gaggle that “people want public safety.” She was not going to shy away from her record in promoting it.
How does “public safety” jibe with Harris’s open-borders promiscuity? (Oh, I forgot. Anyone marching 1000 miles to break America’s south-western border is, by definition, not a criminal, said Bernie, below.)
Prosecuting illegal aliens is “a crisis of cruelty” alliterated Buttigieg. Decriminalize border crossing, bayed the rest. Illegal crossing should be a civil-law infraction, never a criminal violation.
Immigrants are America, crowed Amy Klobuchar. Anyone who walks 1000 miles to the U.S. is no criminal, seconded the irrational Bernie Sanders.
How can such an insane bunch of sell-outs talk about a “sane immigration policy”?
In a field distinguished by its ruthlessly radical mindset, one can understand how E-Warren—let’s jazz up the senator from Massachusetts a bit—has been described by activist anchors as strong and powerful.
Compared to the other candidates and the sob stories they foisted on viewers—Michael Bennet tethered his family’s history to the Holocaust; Gillibrand squealed about her daughter’s EpiPen—E-Warren is The Man.
When E-Warren says to expand immigration, we listen.
One thing is clear: While constituents have ranked immigration as a top issue for 2020, the Dem’s take on the issue was to speak to the need to pry the borders ever wider. Clearly, we have a sovereignty problem, not a humanitarian problem. We Americans have no representation.
Every single one of the candidates practically sang from the one hymn sheet, a lot of it in Spanish: “We have to do more for families looking for a better life.” And they were not speaking of American families.
Duly, Julián Castro had memorized the name of a child and father who drowned attempting to break into the USA illegally and recklessly.
If “drowning exposes the risks of illegal crossing” is a true statement, and it indubitably is—then every American murdered by an immigrant exposes the risks of mass immigration.
But of the sons and daughters of Angel Moms, Castro had no memory. If Mayor Castro can’t spare a thought for the many young Americans dead by illegal aliens, you ask, how about a word of sympathy for an American dog?
Spare a thought, will you, Mr. Castro, for poor Estrella? She was a helpless little mutt, raped to death by a constituent of yours, an illegal alien by the name of Fidel Lopez.
What viewers and voters got from Castro amounted to, drain and dry that Rio Grande! Level the land to ease the passage of Central America into North America. Let them come in their millions, no, in their billions. Decriminalize crossings. Disband ICE. Deify DACA. Deny no asylum claim. Table a marshal plan for Central America. Immigrants are Americans, only better and more inspiring. “We want more refugees.” Or, so said the nogoodnik who runs my state, WA.
John Hickenlooper chimed in by calling ICE agents kidnappers and child abusers. A Hispanic anchor, during the first round of debates, even bad-mouthed Obama’s proud record of 3 million deportations. (“Migrant kids who do not have proper claims will be repatriated,” roared Barack Obama, back in the good old days.)
All the above only served to cement the old white guy’s lead in the polls. Ordinary Democrats prefer the doddering Mr. Biden to the demonic females and their housetrained hombres. When all is said and done, not even Democrats wish to be governed by the likes of Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris.