The Democrats are in a bit of corner. They are heading into 2018 with Trump not only outflanking them on the right, with tax cuts and tough talk about borders, but they are also being outflanked on the left by a strong economy, the repatriation of American jobs and...tough talk about borders, which, if you think about it, is also a left wing position.
Based on this, the mid-term elections could well be a massacre. Even worse for the Democrats, such an electoral roll back—by sandblasting off the normies still in the party—would reveal the party to be what it has become, essentially a grotesque cluster of shills and cucks for ethnic grievance politics. If that happens, there will be no way back for the Democrats, and it seems some of the smarter minds in the party are realising this.
So, when Trump gave his big State of the Union speech, the Dems decided to emphasise their White working class roots by getting one of their young White guy politicians, Joe Kennedy, to respond from a garage. Kind of like "my fellow White working-class Americans..."
They probably thought it was an added bonus that the guy they chose to do the speech was a scion of the Kennedy clan. Big mistake. While Joe has some of that Kennedy look about him, he is obviously the effete, pampered, privileged offspring of a political dynasty whose political moment came and went more than 50 years ago.
Inexplicably drooling from the mouth, the inexperienced ginger-haired politician gave a dull, feeble speech that stood up badly against Trump's highly successful "State of the Union" address.
As he dribbled and muttered, and looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights, it was clear that he had been chosen for one reason and one reason alone—his "K" quotient, the mere fact that he might vaguely remind boomers of JFK.
This is how the Dems attempt to pretend that they aren't just a party of ethnic grievance politicians, by showing instead that they are a bunch of pathetic boomers still in thrall to the Kennedy mystique which died on the streets of Dallas in 1963.
Based on this, the mid-term elections could well be a massacre. Even worse for the Democrats, such an electoral roll back—by sandblasting off the normies still in the party—would reveal the party to be what it has become, essentially a grotesque cluster of shills and cucks for ethnic grievance politics. If that happens, there will be no way back for the Democrats, and it seems some of the smarter minds in the party are realising this.
So, when Trump gave his big State of the Union speech, the Dems decided to emphasise their White working class roots by getting one of their young White guy politicians, Joe Kennedy, to respond from a garage. Kind of like "my fellow White working-class Americans..."
They probably thought it was an added bonus that the guy they chose to do the speech was a scion of the Kennedy clan. Big mistake. While Joe has some of that Kennedy look about him, he is obviously the effete, pampered, privileged offspring of a political dynasty whose political moment came and went more than 50 years ago.
Inexplicably drooling from the mouth, the inexperienced ginger-haired politician gave a dull, feeble speech that stood up badly against Trump's highly successful "State of the Union" address.
As he dribbled and muttered, and looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights, it was clear that he had been chosen for one reason and one reason alone—his "K" quotient, the mere fact that he might vaguely remind boomers of JFK.
This is how the Dems attempt to pretend that they aren't just a party of ethnic grievance politicians, by showing instead that they are a bunch of pathetic boomers still in thrall to the Kennedy mystique which died on the streets of Dallas in 1963.
