After Its Ascendency Was Proclaimed, the Political Left Is Collapsing...By Michael Barone

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 After Its Ascendency Was Proclaimed, the Political Left Is Collapsing
History is not bending toward acceptance of big government, nor is it moving toward submersion of national identity into globalism.
By Michael Barone — December 9, 2016

It’s been a tough decade for the political Left. Eight years ago, a Time magazine cover portrayed Barack Obama as Franklin Roosevelt, complete with a cigarette and holder and a cover line proclaiming, “The New New Deal.” A Newsweek cover announced, “We Are All Socialists Now.”

Now the cover story is different. Time has just announced — inevitably, though a bit begrudgingly — that its person of the year for 2016 is Donald Trump. No mention of New Deals or socialism.

It’s not surprising that newsmagazine editors expected a move to the left. The history they’d been taught by New Deal admirers, influenced by the doctrines of Karl Marx, was that economic distress moves voters to demand a larger and more active government.

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[Bigun]

Excellent article!  Michael is right on!

[geronl]

The left owns both parties and now owns the "conservative media" too.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Leftist politicians supposed that ordinary voters with modest incomes facing hard times would believe that regulation and redistribution would help them. Evidently, most don’t.

The rejection was apparent in the 2010 and subsequent House elections; Republicans have now won House majorities in 10 of the past 12 elections, leaving 2006 and 2008 as temporary aberrations. You didn’t hear Hillary Clinton campaigning on the glories of Obamacare or the Iranian nuclear deal, and her attack on “trumped-up trickle-down” economics didn’t strike any chords in the modest-income Midwest.

Republican success has been even greater in gubernatorial and state-legislature elections, to the point that Democrats hold both the governorship and legislative control only in California, Hawaii, Delaware, and Rhode Island. After eight years of the Obama presidency, Democrats hold fewer elective offices than at any time since the 1920s.

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/442895/print

Good news!