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| VDH - Does The Democrats' Chaos Strategy Work? | |
| 2025-11-08 | |
| [Daily Caller, h/t Townhall] We can draw a few conclusions from an off-year election, when iconic races in blue states went, as expected, overwhelmingly Democratic. Nevertheless, there is only a year left before the midterms. So Republicans must react to even these paltry results. 1) Democrats’ chaotic nihilism still works. The chaos strategy causes so much turmoil, noise, and negative media coverage that the confused voting public simply cannot sort it all out. The public wishes the upheaval would just go away and often blames those with the most current authority — logically, the incumbent Trump and his administration. 2) Every day of Trump’s first year, there were either campus eruptions, Tesla firebombings, street violence against ICE, or crazy district judges’ injunctions. The bedlam becomes force multiplied by unhinged outbursts from Democrats like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Eric Swalwell, and the proverbial Squad. The latest firecracker was thrown by a now Biden-like, faltering Nancy Pelosi, who recently screamed on CNN that President Donald Trump "is just a vile creature, the worst thing on the face of the Earth." The public has no time to sort out all the actual causes for such mad hattery. It knows only from Democrats that the commotion is roughly correlated with "Trump." Note that there is never a positive Democratic "Contract with America," since it is impossible to advance anything popular or moderate past its now firmly socialist base. 3) Democrats also use the chaos strategy to target key electoral groups. In this week’s election, Republicans finally grasped the purpose of the pre-election shutdown. It was designed to galvanize key constituencies to get out the vote in a low-turnout year. The lockdown was especially aimed at two groups: laid-off and unpaid government workers and entitlement recipients terrified that their checks would dry up. 4) Much of the Trump agenda, other than spectacular military recruitment and a secure border, is more long-term than instantly gratifying. 5) There is no longer a Democratic Party. It is now an unapologetically neo-socialist Jacobin movement. So traditional negative advertising designed to incur scandal and shame simply does not always work. All that matters is the hard-leftist fides of a candidate — period! There is plenty of time for Republicans to digest these results, especially the strategy and dangerous nature of the new left, along with the mercurial moods of the swing voters — and the need to stick to the economy. But the clock is ticking.
Short, pithy video. [Newsmax] On Wednesday’s “Finnerty,” Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, reflected on the election results and emphasized that Republicans should prioritize economic issues to counter Democratic strategies effectively. | |
| Posted by:Bobby |