{"id":1914864,"date":"2023-04-14T11:57:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T15:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-the-lefts-game-of-high-stakes-blackjack-its-time-for-the-right-to-double-down\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T12:03:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T16:03:57","slug":"in-the-lefts-game-of-high-stakes-blackjack-its-time-for-the-right-to-double-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-the-lefts-game-of-high-stakes-blackjack-its-time-for-the-right-to-double-down\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Left\u2019s Game Of High-Stakes Blackjack, It\u2019s Time For The Right To Double Down"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fin-the-lefts-game-of-high-stakes-blackjack-its-time-for-the-right-to-double-down%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=1914864&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 class=\"article-content\">\n<p>People often say that Democrats play chess and Republicans play checkers, but after watching the situation of the &#8220;Tennessee Three&#8221; play out, it seems that the left&#8217;s game of choice might actually be blackjack. Blackjack is a simple casino game with the best odds of winning, and one strategy is to double down on the next hand if you lost the previous one. In politics, the left has been employing this strategy by endlessly escalating their means of political action whenever they face even the smallest losses. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Political Blackjack<\/h2>\n<p>The Tennessee Three incident serves as a good example of the left&#8217;s use of the blackjack strategy. In Tennessee, the legislature took action to limit the surgical and chemical castration of children, which put the left&#8217;s transgender agenda on the back foot. But instead of accepting this loss, the left seized an opportunity to double down when the tragic Covenant School shooting occurred. Three Democrat legislators helped orchestrate an insurrection at the Capitol, and the left even gained incremental amounts of political power through multiple rounds of escalation. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Endless Escalation<\/h2>\n<p>The left&#8217;s strategy of endless escalation works because their conservative opponents are predictable. The right is often constrained in their set of options, and they treat each round of escalation as separate and independent. However, the right needs to prepare to double down on occasion when the left least expects it. The right must develop a bigger political bankroll, increase their menu of political options, and stop letting the left escalate without any consequences. It&#8217;s time for the right to make it clear that the left has hit the table limit. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\nKyle Shideler is the director of the Counter Islamist Grid, an initiative of the Middle East Forum. Kyle has worked for several organizations involved with Middle East and terrorism policy since 2006. He is a contributing author to \u201cSaudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network: America and the West\u2019s Fatal Embrace,\u201d and has written for numerous publications and briefed legislative aides, intelligence, and law enforcement officials and the general public on national security issues.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/barack-obama\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Barack Obama<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/blackjack\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Blackjack<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/cameron-sexton\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Cameron Sexton<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/chess\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Chess<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/democrats\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Democrats<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/eric-holder\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Eric Holder<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/gloria-johnson\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Gloria Johnson<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Joe Biden<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com \n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern American politics abounds with talk of chess. People will tell you Democrats play chess and Republicans play checkers. Not to mention all the discussion of the three-, four-, even five-dimensional chess games reportedly going on at any one time.\u00a0 But in watching the situation of the so-called \u201cTennessee Three\u201d play out, I\u2019m inclined to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":763,"featured_media":1914865,"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":[546],"tags":[24385,4534,6528,22856,6550,4084,5073],"class_list":["post-1914864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-blackjack","tag-double","tag-game","tag-high-stakes","tag-its","tag-lefts","tag-time"],"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\/1914864","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\/763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}