Election's Big Loser is the Democrats' Narrative

Article author: 
Bruce Thornton
Article publisher: 
Front Page Magazine
Article date: 
7 November 2024
Article category: 
Our American Future
Medium
Article Body: 

On Tuesday Donald Trump’s “shellacking,” to borrow a word from Barack Obama... is a definitive repudiation not just of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, but of a political narrative over a century in the making...

Today’s Democrats have embraced a narrative - call it “left,” “progressive,” “socialist,” “woke,” or what you will - which rejects holding people accountable for their actions... Hence, we’re told that poverty, capitalism, injustice, racism, sexism, and all the other -isms and -phobias explain people’s crimes and failures. So we get Democrat policies that ignore or legitimize illegal border crossings, shoplifters, bums and addicts befouling our cities, repeat felons, no bail release for arrestees, and numerous other dangerous absurdities.

Since the ordinary law-abiding “moral majority” have to suffer the physical and economic consequences of these policies, which increased significantly under the Democrats, it’s no wonder they voted for a president who promises to restore law and order...

... transgenderism is just an off-shoot of the illiberal DEI identity-politics protocols Democrats have imposed on virtually all our public institutions, including schools and businesses. These policies that ignore merit and violate the Civil Rights Act in practice are a tyranny of the minority...

...  the Democrat narrative, like early Progressivism, centers on this dismantling of the Constitutional order of separated and mutually balancing powers, along with our unalienable rights...

In word and deed, the Biden administration and the Democrat Party have been laboring over continuing this century-old assault against the Constitution...

For in the end, it’s not just about the economy or the border or taxes. It’s about our ordered liberty, the true freedom that is less and less a feature of the Democrat’s narrative...