Sundance at Conservative
Treehouse calls the DC political elite the “Uniparty.” I’ve also come
across the term “fusion party.” Robert Curry at American Greatness calls it the “biparty establishment”, and he
puts recent political developments into perspective.
Here’s a sample:
In 2016, the Republican party
leadership looked on in disbelief as their voters stuck them with a candidate
who had an excellent claim not to be a Republican. Meanwhile, the
Democrats had a close call; their voters very nearly stuck them with a
candidate who was not and had never been a Democrat. Republican voters rejected
“their” party, and Democrat voters came close to rejecting “their” party, and
they might have succeeded except for behind the scenes efforts by the party
professionals to rig the system.
These were astonishing
developments, but we need look no further than Barack Obama for the explanation.
For more than a century before the
advent of Obama, the Left had adhered to a stealth strategy. They maintained a
remarkable degree of party discipline over that long period, believing stealth
was necessary and that it was the secret of their phenomenal success in
overthrowing the Constitution incrementally, progressively. Instead of openly
rejecting the Constitution, they had carefully installed in their voters a
belief in what they called “the living Constitution.” A living Constitution is,
of course, no Constitution at all; it is really a dying Constitution, a
Constitution in the process of being murdered by a thousand cuts.
. . .
But Obama broke with tradition. To
those paying attention on the Left, he did not hide his disdain for the
Constitution, for America, or even for the flag—and the Left went wild. For the
Left, Obama’s success meant the galling necessity for stealth was over, that
they could let it all hang out because America was ready for a leftist
revolution. Many Democrat voters agreed. They were no longer willing to
put up with a Democrat candidate mouthing platitudes neither they nor the
candidate believed so that candidate could be elected.
Comes the hour, comes the man. [Bernie] Sanders was almost completely untainted by the strategy of stealth. Not only
was he not a Democrat, but he had also honeymooned in the Soviet
Union. In 2011, he wrote an op-ed in which he declared that the American dream
is “more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador,
Venezuela, and Argentina” than in the United States. At the Democratic
candidates’ forum in New Hampshire on Friday night, he said America is “a
racist society from top to bottom.”
As for Trump, we can say of him
what Lincoln said of Grant: “he fights.” Trump’s voters wanted a fighter,
someone who would not be rolled by the biparty establishment.
Mr. Curry’s conclusion:
We now have an openly anti-American
party and an openly pro-American party.
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