Retiring Democrat Tennessee Congressman: The Democrat Party is on the Edge of Extinction in Tennessee Because of Self-Righteousness

Well that gets to the point pretty quickly.

Jim Cooper retired not just because of the red wave, but a redrawn map that would have made it hard for him to get reelected.

But why were Republicans able to redraw the map? Why did they have complete control over state government?

It's because Democrats have annoyed everyone to the point where everyone just hates their stinking guts, he reckons.

As usual, Democrats are not alert to future dangers. The biggest danger we face in an off-year election after we won the White House is the 100-year trend toward the other party. Redistricting is small potatoes compared to that historical trend.

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What Tennessee Democrats need is a strategy to win. We're addicted to telling other people what to think. You can't really win many elections if you're that self-righteous.

It's important to be in communication with your constituents, not to be their boss. You're their representative. We've got to get this formula right. The Democratic Party in Tennessee is basically facing extinction. We've been on a long downhill slide for a long time. Tennessee has fewer statewide elected offices than I think any other state, and now the only path upward will be through Memphis, which is not nearly as successful as Nashville. That fits Republican strategy very well. Their intent is to ghettoize the state Democratic Party.

Speaking of: Kurt Schlichter: The GOP Must Adopt a No Prisoners Agenda for 2023.

Let's say "Conservatives" must adopt this agenda. The GOP leadership will adopt a Friends and Corporate Family agenda as usual. And will push an agenda of a "new collegiality" with their Democrat friends.

They need to be purged.

But, on to Kurt:

We are going to crush the Democrats in 2022, and there will be a temptation to sigh and wipe our brow and think it's all over, but instead of relaxing in 2023 the GOP needs to attack. Think Attila the Hun charging at the head of his horde. Think George Patton leading the Third Army. Think Brian Stelter, who is a potato, when he sees a buffet. We need to crush their dreams and make them howl in the run-up to 2024, when we will retake the presidency and put a sharpened stake through the shriveled heart of the leftist monster.

We will have power soon. We must use it.

They will cry. We must drink their tears.

A lot of institutions have crossed us over the last few years. This is because our soft leaders failed to demonstrate that they do so at our peril. The GOP is learning a bit. The Chamber of Commerce betrayed us, and it is now dead to us. Let its head be posted on a pike to encourage the others. Institutions need to understand that choosing to side with our enemies has consequences. They must earn back any favor. And we need to make sure that any lobbying firm or media group or corporate board or whatever that hires traitors like Cheney or Kinzinger gets nothing from the GOP. Nothing. The door is shut tight. We must reestablish that to screw with our people has a price, and a painful one.

Finally, there is impeachment. Trump was faux impeached twice for nonsense. Biden, however, is willfully violating the law by throwing open the border. He must be held to account for refusing to enforce the laws passed by the Congress and signed by the president. Let the Democrats, fresh from their fake "Muh Democracy" bleating, explain why they support someone actively subverting democracy. After all, what else can you call the willful refusal to enforce the laws passed by the people's representatives?

Sounds great, but exactly none of this will happen as long as our party remains captive to Mitch McConnell, Femme Fatale Lindsey Graham, John Cornyn, John Thune, Richard Burr, and, on the House side, Frank Luntz's Cabana Boy.

posted by Ace at 04:00 PM

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