Timothy Birdnow

At American Thinker J.R. Dunn warns of the dangers to the Republican Party by the collapse of the traditional Democrats and the rise of the Democratic Socialists in the party.

AS Mr. Dunn points out we've rode in this rodeo before when a bunch of east coast liberals quit the Democratic Party over their soft-on-communism stance in the seventies and eighties. They joined the Republicans under the name Neocons and moved the GOP decidedly leftward, especially in terms of social and economic policies. The old Republicans, dispirited from decades of being in a political wilderness, largely left the political fight and the Neocons stepped in.

And controlled the GOP for decades. The disaster that was the George W. Bush Administration was the end result. Outside of a reasonable foreign policy the Bush tenure of office was atrocious, with liberal social and economic policies roaring back.

That is the danger of the rise of democratic socialism in the Democrat Party; the refugees will bring the terrible ideas that have ruined their own party with them. It is like moving Covid patients into nursing homes - we know what happened there.

We are going to have to welcome these folks; I see no way around that. But we have to make absolutely certain they stay far away from the levers of power.

As Dunn points out, the influx of these people may well reinvigorate the RINO wing of the party, and MAGA may become the minority. This could well lead to a schism of our own. While we have the enthusiasm and the numbers the RINO's have the money. If their numbers rise then we will lose.

This must be prevented at all cost.

Remember what we are trying to do here; we are not radicals by any means, we merely want to return to the pre-Obama era, preferably the Clinton era. Most MAGA folk just want to restore sanity. We aren't asking to go back to the Cooolidge era - just a few years back. America went mad under Obama.

But I doubt we'll get that with Democrat refugees. They are going to want to move this nation further left, just not quite so fast as the Democratic Socialists. In point of fact the Dem Socs are just more honest about what they seek. The regular Democrats always tried to hide what they truly wanted and usually got it by being patient. These young turk demsocs are just too impatient.

Anyone remember Troy? It is fitting the Odyssey just came out (even though the film was p.c. and sucked). It should be the cautionary tale for the Republicans.

Another aspect of this; Trump and MAGA will be denied credit for saving the Republican Party. When the history books are written the liberal historians will claim it was the rise of Democratic Socialism that saved the GOP because of this move by old line Democrats. They will call it the Great Switch, much like they claim the racist Southern Democrats all became Republicans and moved the GOP from supporting the repressed black community to becoming the Party of Jim Crow. That was a lie and so too will this notion that the Republicans were saved by the Great Switch. It was Trump and MAGA, but historians will claim otherwise.

At any rate, we live in interesting times. Historic times. The Democratic Party is dying before our very eyes. Hopefully it will split in two and both will forever remain two minority parties. But the GOP could split as well. And the American system is designed for two parties only - it will be interesting to see which parties collapse when the split comes.

Interesting times.

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