#YesterdaysDemocrats

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 8:43 PM

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I hope you will let me offer a few thoughts on the current state of the Democratic Party. The breaking news? It’s much worse than Democrats think.

Let Them Eat Woke
By Alex Castellanos
(896 words)

If you have ever been desperate and adrift, you understand the Democratic Party’s frustration.

One day, James Carville tells his party to do nothing and let President Trump destroy himself. Another, the Montgomery Burns of American politics, Senator Chuck Schumer, advises a strategy of sustained resistance, rallying his troops to “make Donald Trump the quickest lame duck in history.” The old Senate Minority Leader feeds his angry, cannibalistic followers in hope they won’t eat him.

Some Democrats protest their party has been too woke. Others, not woke enough. Pete Buttigieg, a man not often confused with a lumberjack, swaps “darn” and “shucks” for saltier words to demonstrate his party’s determination. The Democrats’ new flag may flaunt a manly spittoon, but still, it’s rainbow-colored. They thrash about like sinking swimmers, afraid they are going down for the last time, grasping for anything that might float them to the surface.

Here is a bit of advice from a swimmer who, on occasion, has nearly slept with the fishes: No political issue or strategy will save you. Your problems extend far beyond politics.

You are dying of old age.

Democrats, your party has a product problem, not a marketing problem. Don’t look around. Look in the mirror. Your problem is staring back.

You’ve lost the ability to govern your country. That’s why your party expired in 2024 with Kamala Harris.

That election was not a changing of the guard, it was the end of an era. The organizing principles that have defined the Democratic Party since the 1930s are now exhausted and near the grave.

Once, the modern Democratic Party had a governing philosophy. Democrats had a set of beliefs about how government should function, its purpose, and its relationship with its citizens. They had a system through which they could productively exercise authority.

They could make government work.

In response to the Great Depression, FDR led our nation into a new era. He created big government to pull the country out of a sinkhole. The “public sector,” oddly detached from the actual public, grew through WWII, prospered with the post-war boom, and swelled again with Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society.”

The Keynesian idea that government should manage the economy—and everything it touched—was eventually embraced by establishment Republicans. It held that Washington’s nobility should provide and enforce the solutions to all human problems. So, from Nixon through Obama and Biden, the power of the collective state ballooned. And a naive America cheered.

Washington’s prelates told us the hard work of building a better society did not have to be done by its citizens. They promised, “Less responsibility for you!” and “More free stuff for everybody!” Fat, happy, and indulging in capitalism’s success, we threw them wads of money and let them control everything.

They constructed a machine, a Fourth Branch of government, The Bureaucracy, mentioned nowhere in the Constitution.

Independent and unaccountable, the Fourth Branch intertwined with others, manufactured NGOs, and engineered a tangle of interconnected assembly lines that turned back on themselves and fed each other.

Our public servants amassed such money and authority that they became our masters. Their creation swelled cancerously as they gorged on the toil of the people. Our rulers became sick with power, and their virtue signaling produced feverish absurdities: Men can be women. Genders are unlimited. Children should be disfigured. Free speech is violence. Borders are racist. The real victims of crime are the criminals.

And last November, in front of the entire world, to the horror of the Ancien Régime, the cancer they could not stop feeding killed them all.

Above us, Ronald Reagan is

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