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Victor Davis Hanson argues that the radical
Democrats have boxed themselves in – they have no choice but to keep on their
path to a “slow motion suicide” :
Democrats don’t talk up their
alternate agenda because they know that more regulations, open borders, trade
appeasement, banning fracking, and the green new deal, would be the very
opposite of Trump’s plan and likely achieve the very opposite of Trump’s
results. In this context, destroying Trump is not just the only viable
trajectory for the Left, but it is also the only possible narrative. Again, to
focus on the current left-wing agenda is slow-motion suicide.
The Democrats know that impeachment
will not lead to a conviction. They accept that they are not gaining traction
in the polls. They fear that Trump’s wounds heal quickly and what doesn’t
destroy him can make him stronger.
So why continue? Again, there is little
other alternative. Moreover, addicts do not act logically and the Left is
hooked on Trump and cannot quit him. Finally, they hope to destroy Trump
physically. He will be 74 in June. By the standards of senior medicine, they
feel Trump is locked in a self-destructive cycle: little sleep, little
exercise, poor diet, too heavy, too stressed.
Hanson’s column at American Greatness is here.
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