7 Things Democrats Are Thankful for This Year
Donald Trump’s Minister of Information, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has a Thanksgiving gimmick going this week in the briefing room that’s less Norman Rockwell and more Kim Jong Un. Before not answering their questions or ignoring the not-bearing-false-witness commandment, she’s asking reporters what they are thankful for.
Here’s what Democrats are giving thanks for this week:
The suburbs. If the off-year elections of 2017 are any indication, the suburbs might save our collective asses next year. National elections and control of the House and Senate are won and lost in the smaller cities and midsize towns that surround Detroit, Milwaukee, Cleveland, D.C., New York, Las Vegas, Houston, Denver, Miami and Tampa. If you don’t believe me, ask about six dozen petrified Republican House members how Donald Trump is polling in the ‘burbs.
Roy Moore. I’m thankful to Roy Moore for settling the question of who and what the GOP is today. The Republican Party is no longer the aspirational GOP of my parent’s youth or even of mine. The transition from the Leave it to Beaver conservatism of Dwight Eisenhower to the Aaron Spelling fantasies of Ronald Reagan was a pretty easy one. No more. Republican elders may be publicly embarrassed by Roy Moore, but voters are closely aligned with the Alabama Bannonite. The DNA in the nucleus of current GOP is a bolt of race-based religious rage that electrifies a furious, largely less than educated white tribe. And while it’s true that the superrich take advantage of this engine to push their policies, make no mistake that the party ultimately reflects the voters themselves. This Thanksgiving, I am indebted to Roy Moore because he’s brought it right out of the closet, and we can no longer pretend that the GOP writ large is anything more than a tribal movement electrified by contempt and suspicion. It has more of a problem with Colin Kaepernick silently kneeling than Roy Moore seizing a 16-year-old girl by her neck and attempting to force her face into his crotch, so long as he has a crucifix and a shredded copy of the Washington Post in his other fist.
2018. I feel that rumble. What do you call congressional Republicans prioritizing billionaire donors, D.C. politics and Donald Trump over middle class families? A blue wave and it’s coming. What goes up must come down, and Republicans are in for a long fall.
Read more: http://observer.com/2017/11/this-thanksgiving-democrats-are-thankful-for-robert-mueller/
