If you are having a difficult time recognizing American Democrats in 2021, you are most definitely not alone. Those of us who have been involved in politics for a long time remember a Democratic party that bears almost zero resemblance to whatever the heck is going on over there now. Yeah, they’ve always been a little nutty, but it used to be a manageable nutty.
What we are witnessing now from the Democrats is a very public and ongoing nervous breakdown brought on by too many years of lying to the American people and themselves. Public incivility towards anyone who disagrees with them is not only forgiven but encouraged, even by the president.
Put mildly, the Democrats were broken by Trump’s 2016 victory. After The Lightbringer years, they’d gotten so used to a gullible electorate guzzling their diversity nonsense that they assumed that Granny Maojackets would be swept into office with the greatest of ease, no matter who the Republican nominee was. When Trump the outlier practically ran the table in the primaries, they thought their job had gotten easier. Hillary spent the last few days of the campaign partying with Beyoncé and Jay-Z, while Trump hit battleground states and talked until his voice was gone.
He messed up their entitlement party with hard work.
They’ve never recovered from the trauma, and it doesn’t look like they will any time soon, if ever.
Bear in mind that these are the same people who constantly complained in 2010 about any Tea Party activist who showed up to public town hall gatherings to ask members of Congress about Obamacare. That was an earlier version of the “all conservatives are terrorists” crap we’re dealing with today.
What we are witnessing with the 2021 Democrats is a collective mass delusion that presents itself as a psychotic break from reality. I said in a recent interview that they are living in a “post-reality reality.” The only way for them to function is to demonize anyone who deviates from Democratic hive mind orthodoxy. It’s a quick trip from there to constantly overreacting in the most unstable of ways.