Even When They Know He’s Right

Maybe from Oklahoma the next version of a Centralist Democratic Party will arise.

Analysis: Sunday, the New York Post published an article by Victor Davis Hanson, a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and one of the world's leading proponents of common sense in public affairs. The full headline is, "Why the left opposes everything Trump backs — even when they know he’s right," and is well worth the time to consider, but here we focus on the reasons for the opposition not the plentiful examples.

Hanson begins, "The Pavlovian left goes berserk at the mere prospect of each new Trump initiative. Its escalating reactive venom and hysteria are calibrated to the success of Trump’s latest policy. Yet the new hard-left Democratic Party offers no counter-agenda to explain its furor. Still less do Democrats attempt bipartisan efforts to craft shared legislation."

Victor Davis Hanson

Hanson concludes with reasons for this opposition, "One, the prior Biden administration was among the most aimless, corrupt and unpopular in modern history — so the contrast with Trump’s successes is too hard to bear.

"Two, Democrats so hate Trump the messenger that they seek to destroy his entire message, even when it benefits their own country and the world at large. If Trump conducts peace, they prefer war. If he wages war on crime, they side with the criminal. If he stops illegal immigration, they want more illegal immigrants," Hanson notes.

"Three, they fear they have no alternatives to the Trump record, because his agenda is common sense and supported by a majority of Americans.

"Four, the left cannot stop Trump’s success, Nothing seems to destroy him — not the raid on his home, not 93 lawfare indictments, not efforts to strike him from state ballots, not two impeachments, not even two assassination attempts. Instead, all that only made him stronger — and thus more hated.," Hanson concludes.

Maybe from Oklahoma the next version of a Centralist Democratic Party will arise. It would be nice to have national and state opposition parties that propose policies good for the America people rather than the communist claptrap (pretentious, insincere, or empty language) - free stuff for all.

As it is, in this writer's humble opinion, the Leftists now controlling the Democrat Party throughout America are morally criminal, emotionally unstable and cognitively incapable. Other than that, they are very fine people. Bless their little pea-picking hearts.

David Arnett’s beginning in print journalism was not planned in 1985 but covered by Rebecca Martin writing for the Columbia Journalism Review in 1987. After 11 years in print, he established TulsaToday in 1996 and Straight Up on Substack in 2022. Thank you for reading.