The best part about the Stalingrad metaphor is that it casts the Dems as the Nazis.
Yes, but it also casts the conservatarians as Stalinists…
All is Maleficent on the Eastern Front.
A lot of Stalinists came to a bloody end in that battle too.
Something like 5% of the Germans that surrendered in that battle survived captivity. Not much incentive to give in.
“Paulus, who had never commanded a larger unit than a battalion prior to this time, was promoted to General der Panzertruppe and became commander of the Sixth Army.”
I’ll believe it when I see it. There is a strong aura of futility surrounding this exercise since it isn’t going past the Senate. But I doubt the theater will mean much in the next election or for the future of the Democrats. Both parties have done stuff like this before and it hasn’t been enough to disrupt the two party system. My take is that the Democrat core voters would have to abandon the party and consistently vote for someone else before the party could die.
Many black Americans would rather have the jobs Trump has been sending them than the welfare the Democrats have been giving them. High-IQ foreigners would likely prefer a working economy to the Democrats’ ‘Green New Deal’ destruction. Cat-ladies are the difficult demographic to convince to vote Republican.
Yes Karl, their core *would* have to be consistent, and because the veneer of progressive coalitions changes with each new “cause” brought to bear on the minds of their voters, whether through academic indoctrination or media “virtue signaling”, the rejection will have to spread far beyond “The Party” itself. It must spread to rejecting both the MSM and to the academic hierarchies that profit by ever greater numbers of their graduates proceeding to government jobs, with advancement in those jobs tied to certification in more advanced degrees. Only when both those rejections take place will the visible and obvious political party portion of the progressive coalition begin to wither decisively.
The best part about the Stalingrad metaphor is that it casts the Dems as the Nazis.
Yes, but it also casts the conservatarians as Stalinists…
All is Maleficent on the Eastern Front.
A lot of Stalinists came to a bloody end in that battle too.
Something like 5% of the Germans that surrendered in that battle survived captivity. Not much incentive to give in.
“Paulus, who had never commanded a larger unit than a battalion prior to this time, was promoted to General der Panzertruppe and became commander of the Sixth Army.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Paulus
I’ll believe it when I see it. There is a strong aura of futility surrounding this exercise since it isn’t going past the Senate. But I doubt the theater will mean much in the next election or for the future of the Democrats. Both parties have done stuff like this before and it hasn’t been enough to disrupt the two party system. My take is that the Democrat core voters would have to abandon the party and consistently vote for someone else before the party could die.
Many black Americans would rather have the jobs Trump has been sending them than the welfare the Democrats have been giving them. High-IQ foreigners would likely prefer a working economy to the Democrats’ ‘Green New Deal’ destruction. Cat-ladies are the difficult demographic to convince to vote Republican.
Yes Karl, their core *would* have to be consistent, and because the veneer of progressive coalitions changes with each new “cause” brought to bear on the minds of their voters, whether through academic indoctrination or media “virtue signaling”, the rejection will have to spread far beyond “The Party” itself. It must spread to rejecting both the MSM and to the academic hierarchies that profit by ever greater numbers of their graduates proceeding to government jobs, with advancement in those jobs tied to certification in more advanced degrees. Only when both those rejections take place will the visible and obvious political party portion of the progressive coalition begin to wither decisively.