Boo-Hoo to the in-decline, whining Progressives!
By
Joan Swirsky
CanadaFreePress.com
It’s easy to deride the aberrant behavior of the
leftists we’ve been unhappily witness to, both over
the course of the presidential campaign and
particularly since Donald J. Trump ascended to the
presidency on November 8th,
2016. After all, they’ve never recovered from the
Bush v Gore race of 2000!
But as a wise neighbor told me years ago about an
exceptionally vile person we both knew, “She’s more
to be pitied than scorned.”
At the time, this seemed overly charitable to me. But as the decades have elapsed and I’ve watched progressives consistently acting so infantile, it is clear that their limited repertoire—hurling of insults and obscenities, public temper tantrums, wanton destruction of property, idle threats to leave the country, physical assaults on people who disagree with them, engaging in serial lies of increasing magnitude and pepper spraying mothers and children marching in support of President Trump—dictates that they are indeed more to be pitied than scorned.
After all, all of their sound and fury has resulted
in—drum roll here—nothing!
Make that worse than nothing, especially if you’re
dealing with the mortal enemy of the progressive
agenda—Facts!
In 2010, in the first midterm elections after Barack
Obama took office, the Democrat Party
experienced some of the hugest losses since the
Great Depression, with Republicans gaining 63 seats
and a majority in the House, six seats in the Senate
which expanded its minority, 680 seats in state
legislatives, and 29 of the 50 state governorships.
Still, in their head-in-the-sand fashion, they
ignored the losses and continued to believe that as
long as they could, ahem, control the outcome of the
big elections—with conservatives who had died but
strangely reappeared after death as Democrats, and
organizations like ACORN
aiding and abetting their efforts—their
power—actually abuse of power—would go on forever.
After Mr. Obama was reelected
in 2012, Democrats held control of the Senate
and Republicans maintained their hefty lead in the
House, as well as the majority of governorships.
None of this mattered to Mr. Obama, whose contempt
for the duly-elected Congress was matched by his
arrogance in consistently bypassing this august body
to foist his own Marxist agenda on an increasingly
suspicious electorate.
The results of the November 2014 midterms were, by
any measure, a catastrophe for the left. Republicans
gained a total of 247 seats in the House of
Representatives and 54 seats in the Senate,
achieving the largest Republican majority in the
U.S. Congress since the 71st Congress in 1929. In
addition, the GOP won 31 governors’ races; Democrats
18. And Republican-controlled legislatures increased
from 57 to 67, leaving Democrats in control of the
smallest number of state legislatures since 1860.
While both midterms rejected the Progressive agenda,
the clueless left still had enough blustery
confidence in the Democrat Party to put up not one
but two socialists for president in 2016: Hillary
Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
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Note to the outraged: anyone following Hillary’s
less-than-stellar career over the past 34 years
can attest to the fact that she is as far left,
if not more so, than Bernie Sanders and the rest
of the
69 self-admitted socialists in the U.S.
Congress.
When it came to bashing Wall St., endorsing
state-run medicine and education (Obamacare and
Common Core), celebrating abortion on-demand,
embracing the anti-American and anti-Semitic United
Nations, railing against guns (while being protected
for decades by men with guns), endorsing every
treaty that has been disastrous for America, and
advocating for every scheme of the globalist agenda,
Hillary was your girl!
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Note the past tense—Hillary’s last-gasp hints to
run again in 2020 are just more of the
meaningless hot air she’s been expelling for
decades.
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Note how little I care about the screech owls of
the left berating me for calling Hillary a girl.
BEGINNING OF THE END
Unmistakable hints that the Progressive agenda might
be coming to its ignominious end came over the
course of the 18 months that Donald Trump ran for
the presidency. During that time, candidate Trump,
speaking to stadium-sized audiences, systematically
attacked every one of Barack Obama’s failed
ideas, policies, and executive orders, which had
been inflicted on Americans during the previous
eight years, calling them “disastrous,” “failures,”
and most important, “bad for America.” Among the
items on his laundry list were:
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Crushing national debt of nearly $20 trillion.
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Evisceration of our military.
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Indefensible neglect of our veterans.
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Sky-high unemployment (94 million, nearly
one-third of our population).
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Porous borders which potential terrorists were
able to cross by the hundreds if not thousands.
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The seeding of operatives from the terrorist
Muslim Brotherhood into every branch of our
government, including (to name a few) State, the
Pentagon, Homeland Security, the Attorney
General’s office, the EPA, the FBI, the CIA, on
and on and on.
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A horrific foreign policy supporting our enemies
and menacing our most faithful allies.
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Strangulating regulations.
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Ceding control of the Internet to the United
Nations—the most corrupt, anti-American,
anti-Semitic cesspool in our country.
But that is not all. With boldness, indeed
fearlessness, never seen before in politics,
candidate Trump took on the biased leftwing media
and the fake news they’ve spewed for decades, as
well as the fake pollsters who followed their fellow
sheep in pronouncing for month after month after
month that candidate Trump would lose the election
in a landslide.
All of this rang resoundingly true to Americans who
lived outside of the East and Left coasts of
America, those blue-state bastions of Progressives
who love the goodies that freeloading communists and
socialists always love—free everything, from housing
to schooling to education to medical care to illegal
drivers’ licenses to illegal voting rights. Oh, not
to omit a demonstrably low regard for America and
American exceptionalism.
I personally laugh out loud when I hear of the
uber-wealthy people from both coasts—and their
slavish echo chamber in the media—sending out tweets
and e-mails from their privately-piloted planes
bad-mouthing Wall Street and vilifying people who
support secure borders, when none of these
sanctimonious phonies would let a day go by without
checking their spectacular bank accounts, having
their armed body guards at-the-ready to protect
them, and their valets and maids double-check that
their home alarm systems were in perfect working
order.
In the same way, I laugh when I see leftist relics
like Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg from “The View”
and their ilk in other leftist media cite Donald
Trump from 15 years ago talking like a typical
locker-room guy about women, when these
self-appointed defenders of morality and women’s
rights have twisted themselves into labyrinthine
knots to avoid mention of the quintessential abused
woman of the 20th century, Hillary Clinton, and the degree to
which her husband Bubba—their hero—spit in Hillary’s
face every day and night for eight years—as well as
before and after his presidency—with his serial
abuse, cheating, accusations of rape, and lying
under oath about his sordid behavior.
Their hypocrisy should not only discredit them for
all time, but also the so-called journalists like
Mika (MSNBC) and Norah and Gail (CBS-TV) and Alisyn
(CNN) and Rachel (MSNBC), and the other faux
feminists who work for uber-rich male leftists, with
their globalist agendas, running media empires for
multimillion-dollar salaries—it’s always about
following the money—and literally dictating what
their employees say.
Hey, ladies, you’re angry at President Trump, whose
wife and daughter both run hugely successful
businesses? Ivanka now has an office in the West
Wing! Why are you angry at him instead of your cheap
bosses? Why aren’t you running a channel or
cable network yourselves? Pathetic!
But this is relatively small potatoes in comparison
to the barrage of anti-Trump commentary these fake
journalists regurgitated both before and after the
election, including the false, go-nowhere Russian
narrative. They should be the first to admit, but
never will, that all of their efforts have resulted
in—another drumroll here—nothing!
FAKE WORDS—REAL DEEDS
President Trump is still filling stadiums and still
accomplishing more every week than Barack Obama did
in eight years. An article edited by Jim Kouri,
founder of a homeland-security consulting firm and
Board Member of the National Association of Chiefs
of Police, “First 50 Days a Major Victory for
Americans,”
spells out a number of those accomplishments:
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New jobs: In January, 238,000; in February
235,000, with wages growing by an average 2.8
percent and unemployment falling to 4.7 percent.
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Lowering the national debt from Mr. Obama’s
$19.947 trillion, from which President Trump
subtracted $68 billion!
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Manufacturing at its best since 1984.
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Small business Optimism Index hit its highest
levels since 2004; medium-sized businesses also
feeling confident.
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Stock Market continuing to hit record highs, the
Dow Jones closing above 21,000 for the first
time ever!
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Business like Samsung, Exxon Mobil, Carrier,
Fiat Chrysler, et al, hiring and moving
production back to the U.S. for multimillions in
revenue and hundreds of thousands new jobs, as
well as building factories in American cities.
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Significant cutbacks to the burdensome
regulations of land management, resulting in the
potential to create 2.7-million new jobs and to
add $663 billion to the economy annually for the
next 30 years.
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Freeing the coal industry from onerous
regulations.
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Cancelling the “bad for America” Transpacific
Partnership.
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Mandating the end of Sanctuary Cities.
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Nominating a strict conservative to the Supreme
Court.
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Beginning the process of repealing and replacing
Obamacare, the initial effort which failed to
garner the votes because of ineffectual
leadership of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
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Approval of the Keystone Pipeline and the Dakota
Access Pipeline, which will create thousands of
jobs and lower consumer gas prices.
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International non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) that sanction abortions to lose their
funding.
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The preposterous transgender bathroom policy to
be set by states, not the federal government.
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Emergency monetary help for city of Flint,
Michigan, to help the city solve the poison
water they’ve been drinking for years, no thanks
to Barack Obama.
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Significant cuts for American taxpayers for the
cost of Air Force One.
And that is not to omit:
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Firing the senior management at the leftist
State Department!
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The huge number of companies now competing to
build “the wall.”
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Hiring 10,000 new border agents.
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An aggressive and long-overdue assault on ISIS.
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Billions in our budget added for national
defense and our veterans.
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Tremendous support for Israel and “against
the jackals” at the United Nations, thanks to
the president and the spectacular Ambassador to
the U.N., Nikki Haley.
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Stopping payment on Obama’s final-hour giveaway
of $220 million to the corrupt Palestinian
Authority.
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Forty percent fewer illegal immigrants crossing
our borders.
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The complete erasure of the term “climate
change.”
There is so much more….but you get the picture. The
left has thrown everything at candidate and now
President Trump and nothing has stuck. Why? Because
President Trump truly represents We the People. He
cannot be bought or compromised or intimidated like
most politicians, and he is still the smartest guy
in the room!
SWEET
I remember watching the returns come in on November
8th,
with virtually every commentator on every network
and cable channel pronouncing the inevitable
conclusion.
At 8:30 p.m. on the East Coast, this is what I
heard:
“It’s going to be an early night….probably over by
11 p.m.”
“I think this will be a landslide…”
“There is simply no way that liberal states like
Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania will ever
vote for a Republican…never been done.”
On and on blathered the “experts”!
But they were all wrong!
What we’re seeing today is the result of what
happens when a grown up steps in to save the mess
that out-of-control Progressive children routinely
make. Tooth fairies and unicorns and the
glamorization of brutal regimes run by megalomaniacs
like Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and the Castro
brothers in Cuba and the mullahs in Iran—all of
which leftists support!—are antithetical to freedom
and prosperity and everything else that America
stands for.
President Trump effectively destroyed his opponents’
identities—everything they think, believe in,
embrace, base their behavior on, agree with their
friends and partners about, everything that animates
their entire lives. What we’ve been witnessing is
their pitiful reactions.
To them I say—without a shred of sympathy for their
offensive, classless and seditious behavior—Boo Hoo!
Joan Swirsky is an award winning author and journalist. Her work can be
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