The Right Resistance: Democrats have plenty to panic about; Republicans shouldn’t let them breathe

And then panic set in.

It’s the uneasy feeling everyone experiences at some point when something unanticipated goes hopelessly wrong and there’s little or no time to change course. Like planning a wedding during the dry months in California and realizing on the day of the event that the rare rain shower that started up wasn’t going to dissipate before the ceremony, with no opportunity to move the service someplace dry.

Or realizing that the candidate your party nominated isn’t nearly as well-spoken or smart as her handlers made her out to be, and there’s a sinking feeling you’re stuck with her and the bozo she chose for a running mate. It’s a mistake not even Barack Obama, Big Bubba Bill Clinton or the entire lineup of Democrat fill-in stump speakers could fix in a short time.

At any rate, that same Democrat “mistake” candidate is making the rounds these days, still unable – or unwilling – to do what it takes to alleviate the feeling of dread many Democrats are undergoing. They realize they’re in dire shape… and panic has set in.

In an article titled “Five reasons Democrats are starting to panic about Harris”, W. James Antle III wrote at the Washington Examiner last week:

“A growing sense of unease has set in among Democrats, who fear a presidential election they thought they had won by switching the top of the ticket might be slipping away. Vice President Kamala Harris has abandoned her cautious media strategy, deigning to appear even on Fox News, a cable network both she and President Joe Biden were at pains to avoid earlier. So far, the results have been mixed at best.

“Liberal opinion leaders are urging their readers to ignore the polls, following a previous pattern of polling denial (or at least skepticism) that ended in acceptance that Biden was losing and citing the same polls to chase him out of the presidential race. Less than a month before his exit, Biden doubters were dismissed as the ‘bedwetting brigade.’

“Harris is still leading in the national RealClearPolitics polling average by 1.4 points. But Biden led by 9.4 points and Hillary Clinton by 6.7 at the exact same point in 2020 and 2016, respectively. Former President Donald Trump is for the third straight election cycle running stronger in the battleground states that will decide the Electoral College majority, and thus the presidency, than he is nationally. Harris’s current national lead is also smaller than Clinton’s final popular vote margin when she lost to Trump.”

Yes, we’ve heard it a lot lately, mostly from these same worried Democrats along with the gleeful Republican-favoring media members who see the narrow gaps as a sign from the heavens that Trump’s campaign racehorse will begin its “kick” at the top of the stretch with more than enough track before him to not only overtake cackling Kamala, but also leave her in his dust.

I’d be lying if I didn’t rely on similar reasoning to serve as the basis for my optimism. Part of it are the memories from Election Night 2016 – and 2020 – where the Republican defied the professional opinion samplers and vastly outperformed his projections. The phenomenon gave me confidence four years ago when I was certain, based on past precedent, that Trump’s Election Night leads would hold in the close states, and everything would turn out okay.

Alas, another four years of Trump, I thought. It was a good feeling, especially considering Trump had endured so much in his first term and would seek to not repeat his mistakes in his second go ‘round. Tell me it wasn’t a warm, fuzzy feeling?

But the morning brought back hard reality, as the predicted perils with lax security measures with mail-in votes proved to be too much for the legions of legitimate Election Day Trump voters. Watching those leads dwindle, then disappear, had to be one of the worst feelings of my entire life. And it’s the reason why I remain eternally cautious regarding the polls this time around.

But Democrats do appear to be anxious, for good reason. They’ve got a terrible, off-putting cackling candidate (who even Saturday Night Live does a good job in lampooning) with a feather-light resume, barely any political skills and a mound of baggage that would make a train boxcar handler envious to try and tote.

Nonetheless, Antle’s five reasons Democrats are panicking are:

1. The Trump factor

2. It’s the democracy, stupid

3. 2016 hangover

4. Fear is a good motivator

5. Democrats vs. Dick Cheney

The last one being the most noteworthy and particularly relevant these days. Democrats are soiling themselves over the notion that more than a hundred prominent Republicans have now “put country over party” and endorsed the absurd cackling monster, Kamala, simply because they hate Trump so much.

Harris herself held a rally last Wednesday in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where she attempted to convince additional wayward Republicans to join with her to upset Trump’s plan to return to the White House to Make America Great Again. Kamala said it herself, that she and Tampon Tim Walz were searching for “Republicans of good conscience” to join her and “turn the page on the chaos and instability of Trump.”

The only problem being a bare majority of 2024 voters aren’t turning the page on “chaos” because they care a lot more about Trump’s policy portfolio than they do about needing to endure his sometimes uneven personality quirks. Many folks I know aren’t huge fans of The Donald, but they do like his views on immigration, the economy and a host of other salient issues this cycle.

Besides, is cackling Kamala really a big improvement in terms of likable persona? Sheesh.

The fact that a token handful of establishment Republicans made the leap to get behind Kamala n’ Tampon Tim – including the Cheneys (Liz n’ Dick) – won’t be any comfort once unfortunate reality sets in that Kamala Harris went from the most unpopular vice president in history to the office of the president elect. If it actually transpired, that is.

More folks need to think this way. Then Trump would win and America would at least be on the pristine path to righting itself.

I also take issue with Antle’s characterization that Democrats are starting to panic; no, they’re well on their way to a nervous breakdown of worry. Granted, Antle wrote this last week before cackling Kamala went on Fox News to face the steady Brett Baier, but Democrats’ fright has been on display for weeks, or at least since it became evident Harris’s “win” in the September 10 debate didn’t seal the deal for them.

Antle’s other reasons for panic are more palpable. “It’s the democracy, stupid” refers to the change in focus that occurred in Kamala’s campaign about the time she took over for senile Joe Biden. For as long as he’s been at the helm, the current president has been blathering on about how “democracy” is in peril because Trump is “a threat” and is “dangerous” to our American republic, simply for disagreeing with what Democrats believe in.

Then there was January 6th, which theoretically provided enough kindling for years’ worth of Democrat fires to accuse Trump and Republicans of “attacking” the capitol and trying to initiate an “insurrection” that endangered the life of Mike Pence, etc. Well, when Kamala came on board, it was only a week or so after the first assassination attempt on Trump’s life in July, and much of the “democracy” talk went by the wayside along with senile Joe himself.

Kamala has tried to revive the “Trump’s a danger to democracy” line of argument lately, but it’s not having much of an effect. Perhaps it’s because Trump was approached by a second would-be assassin last month and a third man was caught in California with firearms and designs on the candidate a couple weeks ago. It’s hard to be a “danger to democracy” when it’s the kooks on the left who are constantly going after you.

The 2016 hangover has to do with Democrats’ overconfidence in that year leading into Election Day, and the agony of defeat they experienced when the unthinkable actually happened – Trump won the election. Who can forget the dejected look on Democrats’ faces as they sat in that glass ceiling adorned building watching as their stupid “shatter it” dreams slowly went down the proverbial drain?

Democrats are terrified that the same contexts are repeating themselves this year. The similarities being the presence of Trump along with an unlikable female candidate who can’t articulate a vision that competes with Trump’s more aggressive proposals to deal with the harshest challenges facing the country.

Maybe being a single-issue (abortion), idea-less failure of a party has its drawbacks.

Democrats indeed must be petrified that Trump has more political lives than a cat. Just when they figured they’d gotten to him – two impeachments, the wave of phony lawfare cases, the January 6 Commission, hordes of liberal pundits proclaiming how awful he is practically every day and even the Never Trump faction in his own party led by past Republican presidential nominees (Romney, the McCain family, Paul Ryan) – and it hasn’t worked.

Trump is like the political version of the cyborg in the Terminator movies. He’s practically indestructible and will never, ever, stop – until he’s legitimately defeated. The fact that Trump is at least competitive this cycle is baffling to Democrats. How could it be that they’re all wrong?

Keeping Democrats on edge that they might lose is a powerful motivator to sustain their contributions and doing the necessary work to guarantee that every grifter, abortion monger, “Woke” agenda promoter, transgender coddler and Tampon Tim Walz wussy boy will keep at it until the end. They still want to have a chance, don’t they?

Whether Democrats are truly in a panic is up for debate, but there’s no doubt they’re worried they will lose and they’re trying to figure out how to act. It’s not that they really like Kamala Harris that much – they don’t. But it’s got to be a helpless feeling watching Trump do his act and Republicans looking forward to wearing MAGA hats in public again. Panic, indeed.

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