Are We Doomed?

We shouldn’t be. A lot of Democratic programs are popular. No, I’m not talking about pie-in-the-sky promises. But down-to-earth policies like raise-the-minimum wage, save Obamacare, add a public option and a path to citizenship — those are genuinely popular. So why is Trump more popular now than in most of 2017 and why are the oddsmakers betting on him?

Well, it’s our own damn fault. Some of us anyway, are just out of touch. Yes, I’m looking at you, Berniecrats. With all your talk about a Brand New Congress in 2018. You were going to run 400 candidates. There were two Berniecrat PACs and then Bernie’s own super PAC, “Our Revolution.” So, of those 43 House seats that the Dems flipped from red to blue, how many did the three radical PACs lend an endorsement to? (Never mind lending a helping hand.) That’s right, none. As in zero. The radicals only won against four progressive Democrats in ultra-blue districts.

With a resume like that, they’re demanding to take over the Party and lead us into battle with Trump? Right!

And these are the same people who don’t think getting rid of Trump matters as much as “voting their conscience.” Look, I know about this first hand. In the last radical wave I voted for the Black guy from Chicago. (No not Obama; he was only seven at the time.) The wonderful comedian Dick Gregory. We didn’t want that labor-friendly establishment liberal, Hubert Humphrey. So we let Richard Nixon into the White House. Four years later, I voted for the radical George McGovern (another great but doomed candidate).

When McGovern lost, he summed it up like this. “I opened the doors to the Democratic Party — and 20 million people walked out.”

I’ve done the math. He was spot on. The Democrats lost 40% of their voters between 1964 and 1972. That’s why the country went conservative for all those years. And don’t blame it on the Civil Rights Bill, that was passed a few months before Johnson’s 1964 all-time landslide victory. The loss was due to the radicals who came after. The anti-war movement went radical. The Weathermen started bombing “Amerika,” and the whole radical left supported the Black Panthers who were pro-Stalin, pro-Mao and anti-Martin Luther King Jr. I even got arrested for putting up posters announcing a Black Panther funeral — I didn’t know then that the Panthers had ambushed the cops and not the other way around.

So the 2018 midterms prove that the new radicals are just as out of touch as we were back then. And they are going to do just as much damage. Or more. Another four years of Trump could end our democracy. Nixon was a sweetheart and a liberal by comparison.

What’s hard for many to understand is that the Berniecrats are mostly very good people, working their hearts out for what they think is a good cause. But those who care most are most easily scammed buy those who promise miracles. It’s been happening over and over for at least 3,000 years. And it comes to a bad end every time.

I saw this coming when Bernie took a month off to write his anti-Clinton book at the most crucial time for defeating Trump and then published it the week after she lost. So I decided to write a book and take my shot at making a difference. Yes, it’s a long shot, but it’s all I could do. And it was even harder than I thought. The amount of mythology we’ve been fed by the far left is staggering.