Trump's voter fraud talk has liberals worried BBC News That last line is likely painfully familiar to liberals. Although Mr Trump's comments were over the top and easily debunked, they mirror more nuanced justifications Republican politicians have offered at the state level to justify tightening voter ... |
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Activist denounces liberals at university, gets protests
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) A prominent alt-right activist visiting the University of Colorado railed against feminists and liberals and made jokes about Muslims, overweight people and others as about 200 people demonstrated against him, the Boulder Daily Camera reports.
The paper says Milo Yiannopoulos gave a talk Wednesday titled "Why Ugly People Hate Me" in which he argued that the most beautiful people have conservative views and that "liberalism is the refuge of the joyless and unattractive people."
Milo Yiannopoulos is an editor at the alt-right website Breitbart News. The alt-right is an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism. The paper says he was cheered by many in the audience of about 400 in an auditorium on the campus.
Milo Yiannopoulos is an editor at the alt-right website Breitbart News. The alt-right is an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism.
Outside the auditorium, protesters said Yiannopoulos spews hate speech, the paper reported (http://bit.ly/2jzwxvn).
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President Donald Trump has floated the idea of a 20 percent tax on all Mexican importsas a way to reduce America's trade deficit and fund the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
The problem? As Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin pointed out on his radio show Thursday night, if the government imposes a 20 percent tax on the southern imports, it's not Mexicans or their government that'd be paying the tax YOU ARE.
Listen:
Mexico doesnt get taxed on anything! Not a thing! Zero! Levin said. These are taxes on the American people on the American worker.
This [tax] isnt for the workers, Levin stressed. You want to do something for the workers? Unleash the economy. How do you do that? Cut taxes. Roll back cumbersome, paralyzing regulations. Rein in government spending.
Just dont pass a tax on the American people and claim youre making Mexico "pay for the wall."
Editors note: A previous version of this article was inadvertently published with the wrong headline.
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The Womens March was more a mass group therapy than the launch of a new resistance movement.
The Womens March on Washington, and in many other mostly liberal cities, is being portrayed as the launch of a new resistance to Donald Trump and Republicans.
The use of the term resistance is not by accident.
It conjures up the heroism and selflessness of the French Resistance and the Resistance movements in other Nazi-occupied countries. Since Trump is equated to Hitler in so much of liberal rhetoric, it is in their minds the appropriate analogy.
Resistance, not coincidentally, also is the English translation for the group Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement), better known by its acronym, HAMAS.
This plays into the regressive lefts bizarre affinity for Islamist movements, something put on display at the Womens March through the high profile role of Linda Sarsour and the widely-distributed posters of women in Hijabs made from American flagscreated by the same artist who created the Obama Hope poster.
The word resistance thus plays into many important places in the liberal psyche.
But in reality, the Womens March was more a mass group therapy than the launch of a new resistance movement. It was a way to try to stave off a demoralization of a once hopeful liberal electorate.
We have seen such demoralization play itself out in the crying, group cry-ins, and generally hysterical reaction to Trumps victory.
Its likely to get worse before it gets better.
Trump is fast out of the gate, and throwing out so much change so fast, it has liberals demoralized.
First came cabinet nominations which, to liberals, are an abomination going to the heart of liberal control of the culture the education bureaucracy, environmental regulation, and the Justice Department as political tool.
Barring something startling, its unlikely liberals can stop any of Trumps nominees.
That sense of demoralization is witnessed in the reaction to Trumps decision to move forward on the Keystone and Dakota access pipelines. One environmental activist group tweeted out that Trump is pushing DAPL and Keystone because they were stopped by our movements. He wants us demoralized. It wont work.
But in reality, it likely will work. Liberals will become demoralized.
There have been reports that Trump will seek to cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. From reactions Ive seen on Facebook and elsewhere, that move if it takes place is seen as a mortal threat to an important part of the Democratic base which depends on federal largesse for their artistic and political livelihoods.
Trump also has signaled that he would act forcefully against a form of protest movement important to liberal self-identification, so-called sanctuary cities. Trumps press secretary made clear that the administration would look to cut off federal funding streams for cities that defy federal authority on immigration.
And next week Trump will nominate a Supreme Court justice who almost certainly will be a conservative unacceptable to the liberals. Despite Chuck Schumers taunts that he will block any such nominee, in reality there is little Democrats can to do stop it without provoking a Republican nuclear option.
In the age of Trump, liberals are anti-change. They liked the status quo, and seeing it slip away is demoralizing for them.
It is in this context that the Womens March needs to be understood. They put on a heroic face, but I dont think they believed it.
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So, how will the Leftrespond to President Trump in a serious way? Well, they appear to be yearning for a grassroots army of their own, a left wing version of the Tea Party. Many are still licking their wounds from Hillary Clintons upset defeat, while others remain completely immobile that the billionaire real estate magnate occupies the Oval Office. And therein lies the problem. Theres a reason why Trump was elected and Clinton was not. Theres a reason why the Tea Party energized the Republican Party. So, I guess I can see why the Left wants something like this for their side. Yet, even The New York Times said this was a tall order since the party has been devastated under Obamas presidency (via NYT):
Party leaders, eyeing the huge protests last weekend and growing worries over the promised repeal of the Affordable Care Act, are hoping to recreate the mass movement that sprang up in 2009 and swept Republicans to power in the House and in governors races across the country a Tea Party equivalent from the left.
And they are turning to the same playbook that guided their conservative counterparts in the aftermath of Mr. Obamas election: creating or expanding a number of groups outside the formal architecture of the party, focusing on often-overlooked state legislative and redistricting campaigns, and bringing together frightened fund-raisers to underwrite it all.
Recreating the conditions for a second lightning strike will be difficult. The kind of soaring unemployment that followed the worst recession since the Depression is not likely anytime soon, and with many House districts gerrymandered by Republicans and few Republican-held Senate seats open in 2018, the political terrain is more forbidding for Democrats now. Only two Republican Senate seats in Nevada and Arizona are plausibly available to Democrats at the moment, while Democrats must defend 10 seats in states won by Mr. Trump. The most hard-fought campaigns may be the 38 governors races that will take place over the next two years.
The article also noted two things that should stand out. One is that success will depend on the Democratic Party getting serious about state and local elections, in which the GOP has eviscerated them since 2009. Second, top Clinton ally David Brock held a three-day conference in Palm Beach, Florida over the inauguration weekend with 150 top liberal donors and operatives to map a course to create their own Tea Partyand reportedly to defeat Trump by finding ways to impeach him.
The Democrats have no standing in rural America, which is where youll find the die-hard supporters and the credibility to say this is actually a movement. Having marches consisting of the same privilegedand overly educated progressive elites that engage in the typical self-righteous anticsthat blinded them from the rising neo-populist wave isnt necessarily the recipe for a movement with longevity. Also, the GOP owns the heartland. If you drove from D.C. to California, youd be hard pressed to drive through a county where Clinton won. California is also the only reason why Clinton receive three million more popular votes than Trump, which isn't really an indicator of much other than Democratsvoted for a Democratin a state that already goes Democrat. It does serveas another reason why the Electoral College is necessary to prevent the liberal coasts from suffocating us in their politically correct, hyper-progressive, and intolerant ethos, but I digress.
Given that Middle America is Republican, Democrats are left with the coasts and the cities to rebuild a movement that a) doesnt seem all that interested in reaching out to white working class Americans; and b) doesnt seem to be willing to move away from transgender bathroom advocacy and towards job creation, the former being a hallmark of how the progressive urban elites. President Trump is probably the most pro-gay rights Republican ever elected, so once the Left finds out that he isnt all that interested in curbing LGBT rightsthats one wing that has no reason to get energized. Given that the GOP is now dominant in rural America, the Democratic Party has mostly let their political organizations in these areas wither and die. They have to start from scratch since the party has been virtually destroyed in Appalachia. Out of 490 counties that dot this region of America, which was once a Democratic bastion, Clinton only won 21 of them. So, before liberals can even begin talking about things that continue to alienate normal Americans, they have to rebuild the party apparatus. Its not impossible, but hard with the PC-minded ethos of the Left.
The point is that the Tea Party was organic. It wasnt organized by professional operatives, like what appears to be happening in Florida, and the message of lower taxes, smaller government, less spending, and less regulation resonates. Trigger warnings, safe spaces, bathrooms, cultural appropriation, only reigns in the echo chambers of the cities. Its for people who can afford to dabble in this nonsensical drivel; its not meant for someone who is voting or supporting someone out of survival. The sparks of the Tea Party could be seen with President George W. Bushs Troubled Asses Relief Program, which grew into a brushfire with Obamas health care law and stimulus program. In its initial stages, the Tea Partys t strength and weakness was that it was decentralized. There was no leader. There were no qualms about challenging and cannibalizing moderate Republicans seen as too establishment and not conservative enough in primaries.
With their bastions of power restricted to the cities and the coasts, their extreme progressive disposition, and the condescension they have for people who are not like them, I doubt Democrats will be successful in this venture. In fact, it could devolve into a total disaster. There is no way this Democratic Tea Party would accept anyone who isnt adherent to the ravings of a college-aged liberal, which seems to be the norm within Democratic circles. And this has happened before. Occupy Wall Street was the Lefts counter to the Tea Party. It wasnt organic. Professional activists organized it, it wasnt authentic (or organic)and it fell apart. This idea of a Democratic Tea Party, like OWS, will begin and die in the cities.
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