Some Advice for the Democrats.

It may surprise some readers to know that of my thirteen years as U.S. Senate staff, I worked ten for a Democrat, Senator Gary Hart of Colorado.  There was no subterfuge involved; he knew I was a conservative when he hired me.  At one point, I was working part-time for Senator Hart and part-time for the great behind-the-scenes conservative organizer Paul Weyrich at his Free Congress Foundation, where I later ended up.  The Washington Post found out and went running to Senator Hart, saying, “Do you know he is also working with Paul Weyrich?”  Hart replied, “Yes I know that.”  The Post then scooted to Paul Weyrich and tattled, “Do you know he is also working with Gary Hart?”  Paul said, “Yes I know that.”  At that point the Post’s head exploded.

I believe our country needs two viable parties.  I know which one to vote for; I both voted for and contributed to President Trump in all of his elections.  I did so not just because he is a Republican, but because he is anti-establishment.  Only an anti-establishment President can bring about the changes we need in so many different fields.  Why?  Because if you are a member of the establishment and suggest more than a turn of five degrees rudder in anything, you instantly cease to be a member of the establishment.  

This is where my advice to the Democrats begins.  Unless you want to fade into political irrelevance, you must drop the establishment’s ideology of cultural Marxism.  Usually known as woke or political correctness, cultural Marxism condemns most Americans as inherently evil.  If you are a man, white, straight, a non or anti-feminist woman, Christian, or proud of Western culture, you are defined as an “oppressor,” regardless of what you do as an individual.  You are supposed to spend your life groveling in endless apologies to the oppressed.  Since most voters are thereby defined as evil, they are not likely to agree by voting Democratic.  Nor will all blacks, immigrants, and some other elements of the cultural Marxists’ coalition because they do not see themselves as losers and they do not like their real achievements to be attributed to DEI – didn’t earn it.  How do Democrats expect to win elections with the remnant of cultural Marxism’s collection of losers?

This advice applies to Republicans as well.  Establishment Republicans usually do not believe in cultural Marxism but they are afraid to challenge it because doing so risks their establishment status and benefits, which are many.  That is why President Trump was nominated three times: he does challenge it, frequently and bluntly.  He has guts, and establishment Republicans don’t.  Voters understand that and vote for the candidate with courage.

During Senator Gary Hart’s 1984 Presidential campaign, I sat down with him and explained that the people rallying to the New Right and the Religious Right (both of which Paul Weyrich created) were not on the attack against liberals.  They saw themselves waging a desperate defensive struggle to preserve their traditional Western Christian way of life against a federal government that sought to destroy everything they believed in.  Senator Hart agreed that those American’s concerns had to be addressed.  Had he won the Democratic Presidential nomination, he intended to give a speech saying “Attention must be paid” to the heartland voters, who had already become “Reagan Democrats” and are now the core of the Republican base.  As in many other areas, including defense policy and grand strategy, a Hart presidency would have sent the Democratic Party in a very different direction.

But now it is in the hole it dug for itself, as the party of cultural Marxism.  It can continue to dig until it ends up, appropriately, in Red China, and as a permanent minority, or it can climb out, leaving the cultural Marxists behind and building its new outhouses over the hole.  The country needs new Democratic leaders with guts to say cultural Marxism is crap.