To: TideGlider who wrote (983535 ) 11/23/2016 10:58:20 AM From: FJB 3 RecommendationsRecommended By
Read Replies (2) | Respond to The Democrats can’t stop digging washingtonpost.com The Democrats seem to be on a path that will compound their problems. They are in the proverbial hole, and they can’t seem to stop digging. It sounds simple, but in politics, one must always try to avoid doing what your opponents want you to do. If I, as a partisan Republican, could somehow collectively hypnotize the Democrats and have them do my bidding, here is what I would have them do to continue their march into the abyss. I would tell the Democrats to keep Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as their House minority leader . More of the same from her would be great. And if they really want to exile someone, I would say they should get rid of the able, media-savvy Donna Brazile as head of the Democratic National Committee and elect another member of congress, a la Debbie Wasserman Schultz, to serve as a part-time, conflicted chairman. I would order them to elect a real leftist, such as uhh . . . Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), who was a Bernie Sanders supporter and who has been associated with both the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Louis Farrakhan.On the outreach front, I would encourage the Democrats to maintain their obsessive focus on identity politics and assorted grievances, and continue highlighting the flawed Black Lives Matter movement and their inane protests-to-nowhere as a featured cause of the Democratic Party. They should double-down on political correctness, from instituting more “safe spaces” and stifling free speech on college campuses to drilling down on bathroom rules for public schools and keeping up the war on pronouns. And, while they are at it, it wouldn’t hurt for the Democrats to exaggerate the rise in the number of hate crimes during a Donald Trump presidency while ignoring the increase in the murder rate as a result of the Democrats’ anti-police crusades and shielding local, Democrat-led governments from any accountability. But the Democrats have the extra challenge of sorting out their future during a free fall. They haven’t found the bottom yet.
