Quotation of the Day
23rd March 2025
ZMan:
“Reality is the thing that does not go away when you stop believing in it” is a useful way of thinking about much of what makes up our politics. The Democrats and the people we call the left are running into this exact same problem as they struggle to deal with Trump. They are desperately trying to organize a resistance, but they are finding few takers. The “leaders” are now people like Ocasio-Cortez.
It is one of the rare occasions where the people we call the right were ahead of the people we call the left. The collapse of conservatism started in 2015 when the fossils in charge of it were pushed aside by a new movement and a new leader. The people we call the left continued on with business as usual, assuming that their dancing partner would eventually return.
That is what Chuck Schumer told people last year. He just assumed everything would return to normal. The old arrangement had been in place for so long that party leadership came to think it was the natural order. The Democrats now face a future in which their remaining talent is too old to make it up the stairs and its young talent is too crazy and stupid to be allowed near the stairs.