The Democrat Party that many of us grew up with in the 50’s
and 60’s is long gone. Long gone. The Progressive left has taken it over. At PJ Media, Victor Davis Hanson (VDH) explains why so many of our family and friends can’t see it:
President Joe Biden is now 80 years old. He will be 82
when he campaigns for the 2024 presidency — and a clearly debilitated 86 should
he be elected and fill out his second term. He has been in government for over
a half-century.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and current
representative from California is 83.
Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., the second-ranking Democratic
House member behind Pelosi, was House majority leader until early this year. He
is 83, and has been an elected official for nearly 60 years.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is 72,
with 48 years in elected government.
Democratic luminary and former chairman of the Senate
Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is
89, and ailing — after 53 years as an elected official.
James Clyburn, D-S.C., is House minority whip and 82.
These are the official faces of the Democratic Party.
They came into power and maturity three decades ago
during the Clinton years of 1993-1999.
Decades ago, they sometimes supported strong national
defense, secure borders, gas and oil development, fully funding the police, and
a few restrictions on partial-birth abortions.
Not now.
Their role has changed from that of liberals of the
Clinton era to serving as the thin power-holding veneer that masks the new real
Democratic Party.
The party has been changed beyond recognition by
Senators Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., the so-called Squad,
the Congressional Black Caucus, newly elected senators like the Georgia duo of
Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock – and Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
Yet Biden and company are still familiar American
faces.
Their final role is to acculturate the electorate to
the new Democratic Party.
Its radicals are breathing down their necks to get out
of the way. Yet for a while longer they still need such an ossified veneer of
respectability to ease the transition to what is now essentially a
socialist-European green party. . . .
A socialist-European green party”. That’s putting it nicely. Some might say the “Progressive left” is completing
the “fundamental change” of America’s constitutional republic into the New World
Order. Global communism.
VDH
concludes:
The new majority of radical
Democrats allows the old fogies to bask in the limelight until they drop —
exempt from counter-revolutionary criticism or inter-party primary challenges
or demands to retire.
In return, the codgers reassure the
nation that old faces like theirs cannot possibly be polyester revolutionary
socialists — despite their role in airbrushing and photo-shopping the radical
catastrophe unfolding before our eyes.
Read all about it here.
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