The Fereralist looks forward to 2016 to see what caliber of candidate will be coming out of the Democrat Party... apparently, more of the same. The party’s nominee in 2016 is likelier to continue moving in the direction of progressivism than to regress. Fifty years ago, for example, “liberal Democrat” meant Hubert Humphrey, who swore that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 precluded racial preferences. But the party evolved. By 2014, as The New York Times reported, “Democrats in the closest Senate races across the South are turning to racially charged messages…to jolt African-Americans into voting … The images and words they are using are striking for how overtly they play on fears of intimidation and repression.” Humphrey also was committed to winning the Vietnam War. But the standard of the Democratic Party’s left wing passed to Eugene McCarthy who, among other things, was committed to losing that war. Prominent in the next generation of progressives was Anthony Lake, who authored Jimmy Carter’s celebration of America’s defeat in Vietnam and his condemnation of the American people’s “inordinate fear of communism,” who also served as Bill Clinton’s national security adviser, and who tutored Barack Obama. Hence, Obama’s foreign policy persona—his apologies for America’s power among nations, his preference for foreign countries and movements that seek to limit it, his shaping of America’s international agenda to serve liberal Democrats’ domestic priorities—is another manifestation of his party’s evolving identity. We can expect his Democratic successors to continue that evolution in the same Progressive direction abroad as well as at home. Not at all pretty, that. Not at all... If we dont work hard, we just might have to endure a Fauxcahontas in Chief.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:24:39 +0000
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