{"id":1846520,"date":"2023-02-14T11:05:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T16:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1846520"},"modified":"2023-02-14T11:06:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T16:06:44","slug":"kurt-schlichter-how-the-democrats-will-come-at-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kurt-schlichter-how-the-democrats-will-come-at-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Schlichter: How the Democrats Will Come At Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fkurt-schlichter-how-the-democrats-will-come-at-us%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=1846520&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-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/5c5468eb-9b92-4a48-93fe-aecfd120e13d.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"isPasted\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Before Grandpa Badfinger Biden sank into his usual vortex of strange verbal constructions and incoherent shouting, as well as occasional improvised concessions to neutralize key Democrat talking point, his State of the Union speech stood out. You heard that right \u2013 the first 25 minutes, before he insanely got himself filmed conceding that Republicans are not about to push old ladies over the cliff by slashing their Social Security and Medicare, was the strongest, most effective speech he has ever given. It pains me to admit it \u2013 I would rather pee glass than praise him \u2013 but the current fashion of lying to oneself about the nature of one\u2019s opponents is self-destructive. Reality is what you have to face. We saw last Tuesday how the Democrats if they were smart \u2013 and we might still get lucky that they revert to form and are idiots \u2013 would create and push a winning narrative for 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tom Hagen, near the end in The Godfather, leans over and asks Michael Corleone. \u201c<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ypoYXQ7e0w4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Do you know how they\u2019re going to come at you<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">?\u201d Mikey did. Now we know too. Assuming the Democrats are as clever as Tessio and as foolish as Fredo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A lot of you are young, way young, and you never lived through a time when the Democrats were the working man\u2019s party. The Democrat Party did not consist of commie professors, race hustlers, abortion nuts, or unionized government flunkies back in the day. It was the party of men who were hard at work, who built and went to war, who wanted to live in dignity and feed their families. They loved their country but did not accept welfare cheating or coddling criminals. These were Reagan Democrats who saw their party develop after 1972 to one run for the Chardonnay classes, not the working class. Reagan chose them because they hated the commies and loved the flag. Yet the economic message that appealed to them was still powerful \u2013 and Mondale was the last guy to still send it even though the smug swells and San Francisco freakshow kept it from resonating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With Clinton, a guy you cannot even imagine in a hard hat (and even less so Obama), the Democrats put these working-class voters aside in favor of what would soon devolve into their present woke agenda \u2013 an agenda that offers nothing to guys who don\u2019t go to work in loafers. And the Republicans squandered the coalition Reagan had built \u2013 the Bushes were the antithesis of backers of the working man, and W barely won the first time and only won the second because these working folks understandably wanted to kill every single 7th century SOB with a hand in 9\/11. This was a mistake. Too often, Republicans treated legitimate economic concerns like an inconvenience and allowed ourselves to be painted as Buick-driving bosses. You are not reaching out for the working man when you nominate Mitt Romney. He is a guy who requires only a monocle and a top hat to look exactly like every person who has ever outsourced his job to Shanghai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Trump saw this huge constituency just lying there, ignored by both parties, and he re-purposed Sir Mix-A-Lot\u2019s tactic of recycling abandoned\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X53ZSxkQ3Ho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Babes with ample bottoms<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0and applied it to the working class \u2013 when the Dems and the GOP decided to toss it and leave it, he pulled up quick to retrieve it. He won.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Keep in mind that the Democrats were supportive of non-governmental workers when ancient Joe was growing up. This was how he grew up, and he played the old school \u201cI got the back of the workin\u2019 man\u201d It is perfect. \u201cMade in America.\u201d \u201cManufacturing jobs.\u201d \u201cWork hard and take care of our families.\u201d More \u201cjobs, jobs, jobs\u201d \u2013 including some that do not need a college degree.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Republicans are not prepared for this story. We want to talk about the culture war issues and we should \u2013 they are important and powerful. But we cannot just abandon the working man issues for the Democrats to exploit \u2013 Biden is lying about his agenda \u2013 he cares as much about working families as he cares about good parenting \u2013 but this is about narrative, not reality. We must stop defending corporations reflexively, particularly since many of them are hostile to our guts and give the Dems their money. We need to ensure that our infrastructure works (DeSantis\u2019s recent move to rebuild Florida roads was exactly what we need) and that we keep inflation from crushing those working but just getting by. Biden is willing to speak out for the poor on credit card charges. Ok, cool. Let\u2019s do it. Maximum $8 Maximum $8? Why should we waste our political credit by defending the banks?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We can and should embrace policies that help private-sector working Americans flourish even if it annoys the corporations that used to be in our coalition \u2013 make that especially if it annoys the corporations that used to be in our coalition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This is a narrative, and the Democrats will have the kind of problems with pushing it that we saw in Biden\u2019s speech. They might be able do that for a time, but then they have to pivot back to the woken-up nonsense their coalition demands. Their heart is not in making sure those cisgender brutes from flyover country get a fair deal \u2013 it\u2019s that their activist, commie, and pervert base is happy. That\u2019s where modern Democrats\u2019 heart is. When a Democrat today tries to be on the side of the workin\u2019 man, he\/she\/they are faking harder than a Bulwark staffer\u2019s wife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Regardless of the manifest insincerity behind Biden\u2019s political greatest hits tour and the difficulty pulling it off over the long haul, this is an opportunity for a cunning Republican. Trump seems to have forgotten about the people who rallied and elected him \u2013 he\u2019s too busy being mad at Ron DeSantis for refusing to genuflect. This means that this is an opportunity to rise from the ashes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">DeSantis could achieve it. DeSantis is already occupying the territory of culture warriors. He should continue to \u2013 the people he needs are mad about perverts pestering their kids in schools, but they also hate $10 eggs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It\u2019s a huge opening for Mike Pompeo, who is crushing it on America First foreign policy. This is an opportunity for him to assert his domestic claims and expand his reach beyond his comfort zone. He needs to move past the Harvard rich guy notion. But he was a successful cavalry officer who served his country rather than being handed it like a soft, nonserving sissy, like Mitt Romney.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It won\u2019t work for others. Nikki Haley could try it, but she\u2019s so fake no one would believe it. And Chris Sununu thinks we are morally obligated to suck up to big corporations so that\u2019s out. Larry Hogan has the sweat part down, but that\u2019s only because he\u2019s humongous.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Bottom line: It&#8217;s up for grabs. Biden tried to grasp the concept with a confused, ham-handed approach that worked for almost half an hour before he collapsed into his usual woke incoherence. Republicans need to be able to see what they&#8217;re doing and get some men together to ride Tessio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><em>Follow Kurt via Twitter\u00a0<\/em><\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtSchlichter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">@KurtSchlichter<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><em>. 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You heard that right \u2013 the first 25 minutes, before he insanely got himself filmed conceding that Republicans are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1846523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[3685,7124,7125],"class_list":["post-1846520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-democrats","tag-kurt","tag-schlichter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846520","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1846523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}