http://www.dailywire.com/news/41945/knowles-last-democrats-are-honest-radicals-michael-j-knowles
For the first time in history, the majority of Democrats identify as "liberal" rather than as "moderate" or "conservative." Yesterday's Gallup poll marks a sharp turn leftward for the world's oldest continuous political party, which considered itself just 38% liberal on the eve of Barack Obama's first presidential election. During that time the ideological identification of Republicans has ticked up just three percentage points, from 70% conservative in 2008 to 73% in 2018. American politics has indeed polarized over the past decade, but only insomuch as Democrats have radicalized.
In 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama declared, "We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked." Just three years ago Hillary Clinton bragged, "I voted, when I was a senator, to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in." Today the Democrat speaker of the House calls physical national boundaries "immoral." Meanwhile, the most prominent incoming Democrat "congressmember" agitates for a $40 trillion federal takeover of industry and an income tax rate of 82.7%. The days of Clintonian triangulation are over. At last, the Democrats are honest radicals. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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