Socialism Is the Future of the Democratic Party
15th September 2018
Democrats are now replacing veteran Democratic legislators with avowed socialists in primary elections, choosing to nominate socialists precisely because of their socialist radicalism. Writing in the New York Times, Bari Weiss notes that Brooklyn Democratic voters overwhelmingly voted for avowed socialist Julia Salazar, despite her very public history of lying about basic things like her background, origins, and past political positions. As Weiss puts it, Julia Salazar is “the left’s post-truth politician.” This “socialist lied. And lied. And lied. Then she won handily in Brooklyn.”
This is the same transition that occurred in Britain after the First World War, when the Labour Party took over from the Liberal Party as the non-Conservative opposition in government. (The switch in parties rather than the zombification of an existing party was a reflection of the difference between British politics and American politics.) It was supported by intellectual trends in the Universities and co-0pted a lot of people from the existing upper classes whom one would think would naturally be of a Conservative bent, in much the same way as it is doing in the U.S., with the same bizarre features as trust-fund babies from old-money families spouting Marxist rhetoric and espousing policies that have failed every time they’ve been tried. AlGore and (pick any Kennedy) are good examples.
Unlike the Democrats, of course, the Labour Party is an explicitly socialist party and has been since its creation. Tony Blair managed to avoid the consequences of this with his New Labour clever-plastic-disguise, but that came apart rather quickly when it passed out of the hands of the only guy who could make it work. The New Labor scheme of importing a lot of non-British welfare cases from overseas to create a permanent Free Stuff Party majority almost worked, and is still trying to establish itself; the Conservative Party, which is composed of even worse cucks than the Republicans, may still manage to fumble their way into permanent minority status.
The key here is how the Republicans respond. Unlike Britain’s Conservatives, the Republican party’s semi-progressives are still a minority in the Republican political class, and the advent of Trump and his successful record has created an opportunity to beat back the RINOs for a while longer yet.