Lost

The only thing the Democrat Party has now for support is the fringe. They have literally lost their way and have no idea how to get back home.

It seems most of the policy focus of the current iteration of the Democrat Party consists of a myriad of fringe issues stitched together like one of my grandmother’s quilts. From Modern Monetary Theory to men claiming to be women to compete in women’s sports and invade women’s spaces, they are all fringe ideas – and universally unpopular.

I was thinking last night about how that is true and how Democrats could have arrived at this point. These are not the Democrats I grew up amongst. I was the very first member of my extended family to ever vote Republican in a local, state or national election. Of course, the Democrats of my parents and grandparents were conservative Democrats, not whatever the Democrats are today – I hesitate to call them liberal, progressive or communist because what they are is insane.

When you think about it, it doesn't appear they chose where they are - I think that is a big reason they don't know how to get out of the position in which they find themselves.

Think of it this way - let’s say the "issues" are represented as kidnappers - one morning, there is a knock on your front door, you open it and without uttering a sound, a bunch of people wearing balaclavas grab you, put a bag over your head, toss you in the trunk of a car and drive you around for hours to a spot and let you go. You pull off the hood and nothing looks familiar, you recognize nothing, and you have no idea where you are - you don't know if they were just driving you around in circles or you are hundreds of miles away from home - and then you realize you have no idea how to get back home.

That is my perception of the Democrat Party. Fringe minority groups dressed in plain clothes and balaclavas showed up at every Democrat house, kidnapped them and took them for a ride - and they have no idea how to get home.

That's what happens when your political party gradually loses on important mainstream issues, quietly and slowly - sometimes over years and decades, but loses. Losing on the mainstream issues pushed Democrats to the fringe to find support and that is why now they support every sexual deviancy, fringe economic theory, and often choose unpopular or untenable positions - because that is all that is left for them to pick.

It is a good thing for Republicans - and I think we have President Trump, a populist, little "r" republican, not a "Republican" per se, to thank for that. Trump's coalition is formed by people I call the RIDs - people who have worn the R of Republicans, the I of Independents and the D of democrats over the years but all support common sense policies and actions that benefit everybody.

The fact is that every American family, regardless of what political affiliation they claim, live far more conservative lives than they will admit - because conservativism - the idea that individuals should choose their own path rather than have it dictated by others - is embedded in Nature by Nature's God (to steal a phrase from Thomas Jefferson).

If I am right, it means the Trump Republican Party is capturing the majority of American support and as long as we remember that - all that is left for Democrats is the fringe, the crust of the bread.

And you can't make a sandwich with just the crust any more than you can win national elections with just the sociopolitical and socioeconomic fringe.