"D" Is For "Democrat" (And "Duality" And "Divorce" And "Destruction" And,...)

In a review of David French's new book, the National Review picks up the national divorce theme Slate Magazine was addressing last week, but, they make the same journalistic mistake - lies of omission - which become immediately apparent, once they begin the review with John Edwards, the Democrat Party's now-long-forgotten 2004 Presidential candidate:

Campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina often spoke of “two Americas”: the haves and have-nots. We Republicans hooted at this. Edwards seemed to be saying that half the country was in dire straits. In the middle of the Great Depression, FDR had spoken of only a third! (“Ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.”) 

Edwards lost the nomination to another senator, John Kerry of Massachusetts. But Kerry made him his running mate. At the Republican convention in New York, Rudy Giuliani, the ex-mayor of that city, had a little fun with the Democratic ticket. Kerry liked to take two positions on issues, Giuliani said. “Maybe this explains John Edwards’s need for two Americas.” We laughed our heads off. 

Some of us aren’t laughing now. The country is clearly divided, though not between haves and have-nots: There are rich, poor, and in between on either side. The country is divided between “red” and “blue,” “conservative” and “liberal,” Fox and CNN, etc. We are divided not just by culture and politics, but also by geography. Those of like mind tend to live together. Americans are hived off.

From here, the NRO's book reviewer, Jay Nordlinger, makes the same mistake as everyone else in these post-stolen election days, and starts discussing pure politics (the difference in “landslide counties” in the 1980s and whatnot) when he should've been discussing A) why "Edwards lost the election" and B) what, other than his vast fortune, made his “two Americas” truly real for America, and John Edwards completely different from the rest of us. Here's the omission:

John Edwards lost because, like Gavin Newsom, Bill Clinton, Anthony Weiner, and apparently anyone else who's white, male, and wants to run for office as a Democrat, Edwards' values were such, that - while he was imploring us to join him in a campaign for American decency - he was having an affair with a NewAge nut job (which resulted in a child) as his devoted wife - who was campaigning for him night and day - was dying of cancer.

Understand this: back when it was "normal" to have Eve Ensler and other silly Democrat NewAge women demanding everyone scream "Vagina!" at the sky, another man of the left, who made a lot of money, and was smart enough to be thought of as Presidential material in the Democrat Party, still couldn't resist the siren song of the cultish, the immoral, or the irrational - not when that "defender of science" had a W.A.P. waving crystals, and talking astrology, in front of him. The Democrats just didn't market themselves that way to the suckers - just as the didn't emphasize Oprah's more mystical, and dangerous, proclivities and associations when Obama ran.

And, whether you're discussing Hillary Clinton's candidacy, the NXIVM and One Taste cults, and anything else the Democrat Party is attached to, that has NOT changed. They, still, just don't  market themselves that way.

But, don't you see, it's who they are - and what they do? Just as America doesn't need NRO going into the differences in “landslide counties” compared to the 1980s to explain John Edwards' “two Americas”, we don't need to be discussing voting machines now, to explain stolen elections - or national divorces. As TMR has already shown, it is The Democrat Party, that A) wrongly - and immediately - accused President Trump of not only cheating with Russian hookers but being a traitor B) performed lies of omission C) called Trump's presidency "illegitimate" from Day One (and kept it up until the end) D) has always said they'd destroy him.

We just need to understand we're in the cultish clutches of The NewAge Movement, and - as Rachel Maddow said the night President Trump dashed their dreams - everything's going to Hell, until we, somehow, get out of it. THAT's the challenge of our age. NOT stupid politics.

And THAT'S challenge enough.