{"id":1399975,"date":"2022-03-25T08:14:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T12:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399975"},"modified":"2022-03-25T08:16:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T12:16:06","slug":"kyle-smith-it-isnt-fringe-left-hurting-democrats-the-fringe-is-the-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kyle-smith-it-isnt-fringe-left-hurting-democrats-the-fringe-is-the-dems\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Smith: It Isn\u2019t \u2018Fringe Left\u2019 Hurting Democrats \u2014 The Fringe IS the Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkyle-smith-it-isnt-fringe-left-hurting-democrats-the-fringe-is-the-dems%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399975&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/kyle-smith3.png?w=76&#038;h=69&#038;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Kyle Smith\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/kyle-smith3.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/kyle-smith3.png?w=38 38w\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Democratic pundits, worried about the midterms and Joe Biden\u2019s terrible approval ratings, are sounding the alarm: That dastardly \u201cfringe\u201d is hurting the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis whole noisy, identity left\u201d composing \u201c15% of the party\u201d has taken over (James Carville). \u201cThe Democrats have to step away from the super wokeness\u201d (MSNBC host Donny Deutsch). <\/p>\n<p>But what\u2019s the distinction between super wokeness and ordinary wokeness when the party\u2019s oldest and most mainstream members are all pushing ideas that would have seemed outlandish in the Obama era? <\/p>\n<p>Biden offered a Fed nominee who said she wanted to deny credit to the fossil fuel companies that power America, and tried to put an actual Marxist in charge of the currency. Only 10% of the senators in the party spoke out against this.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s new legal superstar, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, can\u2019t offer a definition of a woman because \u201cI\u2019m not a biologist\u201d? Being moderately woke is like being moderately pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats now view everything in terms of who\u2019s being systematically oppressed. The reasonable view of racism is that there has always been racism in America. The woke translation is that America is <em>defined <\/em>by bigotry. From there you get to \u201cI have no idea how to distinguish a woman\u201d in about three intellectual moves. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/james-carville.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/james-carville.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=682\" alt=\"James Carville\" class=\"wp-image-21629911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/james-carville.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/james-carville.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/james-carville.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/james-carville.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>James Carville says the \u201cnoisy, identity left\u201d has taken over the party. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for Politicon<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ketanji-brown-jackson-2.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ketanji-brown-jackson-2.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson\" class=\"wp-image-21629956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ketanji-brown-jackson-2.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ketanji-brown-jackson-2.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ketanji-brown-jackson-2.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson says she cannot define what a woman is because she is not a biologist. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trans people claim to be oppressed, they insist that a woman or man is whoever declares that status on any given day, and because oppression must be cosseted, acknowledged, and put at the forefront of every question, the Democratic Party nods enthusiastically or simply remains silent. Voters are bound to notice when a party is singing nothing but looney tunes. <\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t call it a lunatic \u201cfringe.\u201d Lunacy is the heart, soul and brain of the Democratic Party now. As essayist Wesley Yale noted on Twitter, \u201cThe existence of a controversy\u201d about the definition of a woman \u201cis something manufactured within the last five years, and not through advancement of our scientific understanding.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Democrats brand Latinos with a term they hate (Latinx), cling to masks like Japanese soldiers still fighting WW II in 1957 and teach sex ed in kindergarten.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/joe-biden-21.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/joe-biden-21.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"President Joe Biden\" class=\"wp-image-21629951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/joe-biden-21.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/joe-biden-21.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/joe-biden-21.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>President Biden has low approval ratings. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/stephanie-murphy.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/stephanie-murphy.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"Rep. Stephanie Murphy\" class=\"wp-image-21629984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/stephanie-murphy.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/stephanie-murphy.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/stephanie-murphy.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Florida Rep. Stephanie Murphy says her party is being taken over by a faction that wants to \u201cdismantle\u201d capitalism. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Forced masking for toddlers! Let property crimes go unanswered! Spend trillions of dollars to reduce inflation! Closing schools for a year is no big deal! Take illegal immigrants from the border and sprinkle them all over the country! Beg Saudis for fuel while stopping Americans from producing it! Everything the Democrats are saying, at every level from the trivial to the economy-defining, is nuttier than an explosion at the Snickers factory. <\/p>\n<p>Retiring Democrat Stephanie Murphy of Florida \u2014 leaping off the party bus as it drives through a red light, off the overpass and through the roof of the manure processing plant \u2014 says her party is being taken over by a faction that is trying to \u201cdismantle capitalism.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Somewhere, AOC and Vermont\u2019s Mr. BS are thinking, \u201cDuh!!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic pundits, worried about the midterms and Joe Biden\u2019s terrible approval ratings, are sounding the alarm: That dastardly \u201cfringe\u201d is hurting the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}