What Is The Democratic Party Today?

What Is The Democratic Party Today?

By James Howard Kunstler
Information Clearing House
December 12, 2019

The last time the Democratic Party blew up in a presidential
election year was 1860.

It had evolved from Jefferson’s 1800 bloc of yeoman farmers to
Andrew Jackson’s rowdy caucus of frontier populists in the 1830s,
and settled into a slough of pro-slavery apologists by the 1850s,
including two do-nothing Democratic presidents, Pierce and
Buchanan.

The party held a nominating convention in the spring of 1860
and couldn’t come up with a candidate when a claque of southern
“fire-eaters” walked out.

They tried again a few months later and cracked up into three
separate parties with three nominees — and of course Mr. Lincoln
won the election.

The result was the bloodiest war in US history.

That’s one way to drain a swamp.

Historical obfuscators might say the Civil War was a lofty, legalistic
quarrel over “state’s rights,” but of course it was really about the
intolerable depravity of slavery.

A hundred years later, the mysterious inversions of history
converted the old slaver’s party into the Civil Rights party.

That had a good fifty-year run.

It included a hearty side-dish of anti-war sentiment, and a general
disposition against the Big Brother treatment of citizens, including
especially the overreach of the CIA and the FBI.

What is the Democratic Party today?

Well, it’s the cheerleading squad for “seventeen” government
agencies that add up to the craftily-labeled “intel community,”
a warm-and-fuzzy coalition of snoops, false witnesses, rogue
lawfare cadres, seditionists, and bad-faith artists working
sedulously to hide their previous misdeeds with ever-fresh ones.

They’re the party against free speech, the party against
due process of law, the party determined to provoke war
with Russia.

They’re the party of sexual confusion, sexual hysteria, and sexual
conflict, the party of kangaroo courts, cancel culture, erasing
boundaries (including national borders), and of making up rules for
all that as they go along — like the Nazis and Soviets used to do.

The ideas and policies they advocate are so comprehensively crazy
that their old support of slavery looks quaintly straightforward in
comparison.

It’s taken a while for the full efflorescence of these political
pathologies to present.

But now they are finally on display for all to see in what
is supposed to be a climactic impeachment melodrama.

The impeachment process itself has revealed the party’s genius
for inventing new debaucheries of law and government misconduct
the latest being Rep Adam Schiff’s blatantly illegal cadging of his
opponents’ phone logs.

And now, after three years of unchallenged wickedness,
they literally face the moment of truth.

That is when all the many players in this grand game of
"Gotcha" have to face the consequences of what they
have done.

The Horowitz report is necessarily limited to the DOJ Inspector
General’s narrow mission scope: the IG can only interview current
employees of the agency and its stepchild, the FBI, which means
that key players in the Gotcha game such as former FBI director
Comey, former acting director McCabe, fired special agent Peter
Strzok and notably ex-CIA director John Brennan were outside of
Mr. Horowitz’s sphere of operations.

His scope was also supposedly limited to the issues around FISA
warrant mischief — though those complex shenanigans may have
led the IG to other related dodges, cons, and crimes outright.

The IG has no real law enforcement powers.

He can only refer or recommend further action.

Nevertheless, a great miasma of anxiety oppresses the Democratic
Party now as it awaits whatever Mr. Horowitz has to say about
these matters.

The party’s propaganda arms at The New York Times, the WashPo,
and cable news networks worked up a frenzy of distractions
and ruses this past week — for instance the “bombshell” that
International-Man-of-Mystery Joseph Mifsud was not a hireling
of the FBI.

Of course, nobody ever claimed he was.

Rather he is suspected of being an agent of the Italian Intel
Service with links to British Intel, both used by the CIA as
"Beards" for its nefarious activities around its own election
meddling of 2016.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic caucus has been busy
with ersatz impeachment proceedings, which are invidiously
scheduled to continue next week as a smokescreen to conceal
the Horowitz findings.

It’s been a frantic campaign for them at a fraught moment in
this long saga — but the odor of desperation is thick and rank.

Of course, behind the Horowitz report loom the specters of
Barr & Durham.

Whatever they’ve been up to has been hermetically sealed
in a globe of silence even more oppressive and nightmarish
for the Dems than the IG’s inquiry.

Barr & Durham are able to make things stick, most crucially genuine
criminal culpability for the entire RussiaGate fiasco and all of its
offshoots, including the most recent “Whistleblower” caper — a
patently treasonous scheme.

Who knows if and when indictments start raining down, but there’s
a chance that it will be a very hard rain indeed.

I’m not so sure that the Democratic Party can survive the washing
away of its beloved narrative by that hard rain.

They are also faced with a field of manifestly lame presidential
candidates, especially the current leader of the pack, Joe Biden,
fumbling and doddering his way down the campaign trail in an
apparent effort to dodge being investigated for the grifts of his
Veep years.

All this may be enough to put the party down, like a dog that has
peed on the carpet one time too many.

Somebody else, from some other hastily assembled party, may have
to stand against Mr. Trump in 2020.

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