America, Love It or Leave It

The four freshmen House Democrats referred to as “the Squad” who are currently receiving massive national and international publicity are far-Left, progressive Socialists. To listen to them talk about the U.S. border crisis and President Trump, one would think they reside in a distant dystopian land, somewhere between WWII Germany and Dickens’ London. Tired of the America-is-horrible blather and seeing a political opportunity, President Trump sprang.

Using what might amount to a schoolyard taunt, Trump told the Squad on Twitter to “Go back where they came from.” It was reminiscent of the 1970s bumper sticker “America, Love it or Leave it.” The Democrats and liberal media took the bait and exploded. In a letter to her fellow Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote that Trump “went beyond his own low standards using disgraceful language about Members of Congress.” Pelosi and her caucus went on to pass a resolution formally denouncing Trump’s comments.

Ever chatty, the Squad (i.e., U.S Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar) held a press conference and reacted to the President’s tweets. “He would love nothing more than to divide our country based on race, religion, gender, orientation or immigration status, because this is the only way he knows he can prevent the solidarity of us working together,” they claimed.

Trump intends to brand all Democrats as either progressive, radical or Socialist.

Fake News CNN sprayed “racist” across their coverage of this controversy and linked it all to Trump. It was repetitive, boring, and yet it fit perfectly into Trump’s plan.

In the FNC clip below, one of CNN’s narrative-pushing “journalists” even began arguing with a group of Trump-supporting women who refused to condemn the president.

Trump Brands the Democrats

President Trump, a master marketer from his long career as a business mogul and reality TV star, picked this fight on purpose. He intends to brand Democrats as, pick one, progressive, radical or Socialist.

The data appears to be on Trump’s side. According to Gallup polling, 76% of Republicans are “extremely proud” to be Americans, only 22% of Democrats feel that way. That’s a sharp decline from the 56% who were “extremely proud” to be Americans in early 2013. It appears that anti-Americanism is pervasive and growing in the Democrat Party.

At rallies and while interacting with the press, Trump plans to compare the Left’s radical griping, grousing, and grievancing to his supporters’ patriotism, optimism, and gratitude. The goal is to keep the Squad talking. They’re young zealots who won largely based on America-bashing. Let them bash.

The ongoing bashing creates a real dilemma for Democrats. How does a Party with apparently so few extremely proud Americans and so many America-bashing elected officials convince independent and Trump-leaning Democrat voters that they should lead the country?

On immigration, for example, Democrat policies prove their lack of patriotic fervor. The Democrats want to end criminal detention of illegal migrants (event violent felons), give them free health care, support sanctuary cities, and accuse Border Patrol agents of running concentration camps. Their least radical immigration plan is a massive taxpayer-funded Central America Marshall Plan. Essentially, their plans include (1) free stuff here and/or (2) free stuff there.

This Was No Accident

Trump’s comments were planned, and he knew the numbers. A new internal Democrat poll revealed that Ocasio-Cortez and Omar are extremely unpopular in swing states, with voter approval ratings of just 22% and 9%, respectively. Their Socialist agenda was just as unpopular; only 18% of respondents approved. Trump was ready with those numbers. He recited them from memory to reporters following the uproar.

A top Democrat involved in 2020 congressional contests told Axios: “If all voters hear about is AOC, it could put the [House] majority at risk. She’s getting all the news and defining everyone else’s races. Socialism is toxic to these voters.”

The newfound radicalism should surprise no one. Democrats panic when they lose elections. The wise elders become village idiots, and bedrock policies become stale. Everything is thrown overboard.

To fill the void, outsiders rush in, and the demand for something, anything, new swells. The Democrats have done this before. In 1972, George McGovern, a little known and very liberal US senator, said, “I’ll raise your taxes,” and still won the presidential nomination. Then he lost 49 states to Richard Nixon.

Unless the Democrat Party wants another McGovern-like debacle, it should abandon, rather than embrace, the Left wing of the Party. Liberals are heading into a trap; the master-trapper is Donald J. Trump, and in this context, he is the new leader of the Democrat Party.