CLUELESSNESS, THY NAME IS DEMOCRAT!

11/29/16

Bloomberg Radio reported this morning that Senator Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y), who is the closest thing the Democrats have to a national leader at the moment (perhaps more on this in a later post), is objecting to the apparent selection of Georgia Congressman, and vehement Obamacare opponent, Tom Price as Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Secretary.   Mr. Schumer’s reason?   Mr. Price is “out of the mainstream.”

Leave aside the relative merits of Mr. Price’s selection for HHS; simply concentrate on Senator Schumer’s reasoning.    Mr. Price is “out of the mainstream”?   Was Mr. Schumer awake during that election we just held?   Was he sentient during the campaign?    Mr. Trump’s election was, above all, a scathing rejection and repudiation of “the mainstream.”  What else but utter disgust at “the mainstream” and what it has done to this country could explain the election of Mr. Trump over the poster person for the mainstream, Hillary Clinton?   Yet Mr. Schumer is surprised, or at least appalled, by Mr. Trump’s selection of somebody “out of the mainstream” for HHS Secretary.

This is only the latest example of Democratic cluelessness.   A perhaps even richer example was provided by the Democrats in the immediate aftermath of Mr. Trump’s election.   The Dems finally decided that, yeah, maybe they were out of touch with working people, and especially with white working people, who not that long ago formed the Democratic base.   So the bi-coastal leadership of the former party of the people decided that perhaps they ought to move further left, to give a warmer embrace to the Sanders/Warren wing of the party, in order to win the hearts of the white working class voters who turned, in legions, to Mr. Trump.   So the sauvignon blanc crowd that controls the Democratic Party from the tonier burgs of Washington, New York, and San Francisco actually believes that they lost the white working class because the party moved too far to the right by nominating Hillary Clinton.

Yours truly has a number of cop friends who have often told me that it is indeed fortunate that your typical criminal is not very bright; otherwise, a lot fewer crimes would be solved.    My Republican friends, as they ponder their good fortune of having the Democrats for opponents, have to share many of the feelings of those officers of the law.