A Tale of Two Parties
My fascination with American politics and the two major political parties began in 1960. Over the past 65 years, I have watched a feckless Republican Party once mired in elitism and corporatism evolve into America’s potentially dominant political party, and the Democrat party’s descent into an incoherent and unabashedly anti-American Marxist/socialist cartel.
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The 21st-century’s commanding political figure, Donald Trump, is the catalyst behind the Republican Party’s emergence and the Democrat Party’s collapse. It is now in the process of permanently losing its electoral base.
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The Republican Party, thanks to its elitist/corporatist mindset, lost eight out of twelve presidential elections from 1932 to 1980 and controlled Congress for only four years out of 48. They won the presidency in 1952 and 1956 only because they ran a national celebrity war hero, Dwight Eisenhower, and in 1968 and 1972 because of widespread opposition against the Vietnam War and unrest on the streets of America’s cities.
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The Republican hierarchy had long chosen to ignore not only the working class/blue-collar voters but also firmly believed that it was a necessity to compromise with the Democrats’ policy demands to stay relevant. The fallout of this strategy was that Republicans could win only when the Democrats were clearly responsible for societal chaos or dire economic uncertainty, or when Republicans nominated a well-known “celebrity” candidate such as Dwight Eisenhower.
This Republican approach meant that there was effectively only one real political party in America, namely, the Democrat Party, echoed by a purely reactive Republican Party. Even an avowed leftist, Gore Vidal, in discussing the relative merits of the Republican and Democrat parties, said: “But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.”
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In 1980, after 48 years of de facto Democrat or “uniparty” dominance and with a nation mired in economic and societal malaise, Ronald Reagan was elected president. During his two terms, Reagan’s single-minded adherence to conservative principles and willingness to confront Democrats rather than continually seek compromise led to his overwhelming success in rescuing the nation.
Reagan effectively placed the Republican Party on the path to becoming America’s conservative party. The party hierarchy had to choose: follow in Reagan’s footsteps or revert to the pre-Reagan mindset.
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The party’s elitist/corporatist wing chose the latter, as its members still maintained disproportionate influence within the party hierarchy and were determined to wield it, beginning with nominating their fellow elitist, George H.W. Bush. They ignored the reality that, in 1988, Bush was elected president solely because he had been Reagan’s vice president for two terms. Then, in 1994, it was Reagan conservatism as espoused by his acolyte, Newt Gingrich, and the “Contract With America” that enabled Republicans to capture the House of Representatives for the first time in over forty years.
The malign influence of the party’s elitist/corporatist wing was further manifested in George W. Bush’s failed presidency and the disastrous campaigns of George H.W. Bush in 1992, Bob Dole in 1996, John McCain in 2008, and Mitt Romney in 2012.
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This destructive influence, compounded by the inbred compulsion to compromise with the Democrats, is what kept the Republican Party an inept and impotent political opponent. With no viable adversary, an increasingly radical and anti-American Democrat Party would continue to win the presidency and dominate Congress, leading to a dire, irreversible, and unsustainable future for the United States. It was this scenario’s stark reality that prompted Donald Trump, with his “America First” agenda, to enter the political arena in 2015.
Underscoring the existential threat Trump posed to the “uniparty,” beginning in Summer 2016, a de facto alliance was formed among the elitist/corporatist wing of the Republican Party, the Democrats, the Deep State, and the legacy media to destroy Donald Trump by any means possible.
Ten years later, Donald Trump has not only survived an unbelievable onslaught from this malicious cabal but has permanently dispatched the elitist/corporate wing of the Republican Party to the ash heap of history and, with his unprecedented influence on national politics and his impact on the Democrats, has brought the old Democrat coalition of working class/blue color voters and ethnic minorities into the Republican Party. Thus, the Republican Party is now poised to be the nation’s dominant political party for the near future.
Many believe Barack Obama’s election sealed the Democrats’ fate as it dramatically veered to the far left. But the party had been moving in that direction since the Woodrow Wilson administration. It was only a matter of time before it officially declared itself to be America’s socialist party.
And coup de grâce for Democrats was the biggest blunder in the history of American politics: the premeditated and overt hijacking of the 2020 presidential election by the Democrat Party and the left wing of the ruling class.
To destroy the “America First” movement and permanently deter Donald Trump from ever running again, this coalition was determined to create an unquestioned and believable landslide victory in the 2020 election.
However, they overplayed their hand with the popular vote, claiming an obviously senescent Joe Biden, who rarely made campaign appearances, legitimately received 16 million more votes than Hillary Clinton did just four years earlier (an implausible increase of over 25%).
They further compounded this misstep by being far too obvious with their egregious post-election vote-counting shenanigans in numerous states. As a result, the election’s validity was immediately questioned.
In a poll two weeks after the election, nearly half of all likely voters believed Democrats stole votes and destroyed ballots to ensure Biden won. Additionally, seventy-five percent of Republican voters believed Biden did not legitimately win the election. The Democrats had created a vast pool of voters who distrusted them, as well as a massive base of potential supporters for another Trump campaign in 2024.
Consequently, the Democrat Party hierarchy and their allies were forced into finding ways to obfuscate their election duplicity (thus, the manufactured hysterics over January 6, 2021), while remaining confident that they had permanently destroyed the “America First” movement and deterred Trump from running again in 2024.
In their hubris and overconfidence, this cabal further compounded the original election day blunder by:
Meanwhile, the Democrats and the left-wing elitists, in their obsessive determination to destroy Trump, turned a blind eye to the Marxist takeover of the Democrat Party.
Thanks to Trump’s resolute determination and campaign strategy, by the summer of 2024, the inane lawfare and other tactics aimed at forcing Trump to abandon his campaign would be reduced to a smoldering heap of ashes, and Trump would be well on his way to an inevitable victory that no amount of voting fraud could overcome. All of this also fractured the old Democrat coalition of the working class and ethnic minorities, causing vast numbers to move to Trump and the Republicans in 2024.
The Democrat Party is now the party of the Marxist/socialist elites, their fatuous groupies, and the remnants of its historic electoral base. The party has alienated the bulk of its traditional electoral base and has turned to unfettered illegal immigration to offset the loss. This now-exposed tactic has further antagonized the American citizenry. On its present course, the only way Democrats can win national elections is via voter fraud and manipulation.
Donald Trump, the protagonist of this Tale of Two Political Parties, is the only political figure in American history to dominate and change the fortunes of not one but both major political parties.