Nancy Pelosi (D – Boomers) has a problem. Scratch that, she has
a number of problems, non counting her own ethical and moral shortcomings.
Pelosi is the Queen of Projection. She projects an air of
invincibility while also projecting her weaknesses onto her political
opponents. So, even though Nasty Nancy just got back her Speaker’s gavel, she
does so at the weakest moment in the Democratic party’s history since World War
II.
Democrats Are Close to Terminal Decline
The traditional three-headed coalition of the Democrats has been
shattered. The middle class Union guys are gone. By the time Trump is done with
her over border security Pelosi’ll lose a bigger swath of the Hispanic vote
than she already has.
All that will be left is her warmongering, globalist, shills for
the MIC and the Deep State. Bicoastal Smug Liberals.
Internal
Revolt
But,
the hollowing out of the middle class is Pelosi’s biggest problem. Betraying
the former Bernie Bros was the beginning. The Democrats
under her leadership give lip service to bank reform which, in turn, has the
hard-core Socialist left fired up.
That’s what rock-star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez represents. She
is the face of what’s left of Occupy Wall St. And she has a strong, knee-jerk,
anti-incumbent, anti-establishment momentum behind her.
It doesn’t matter that she’s 28 years old, has little to no life
experience or a firm grasp on reality. This is politics and these are chaotic
times. She already has an acronym (AOC) and a nickname. She’s important.
Warhorses like Pelosi don’t know how to change their ways this
late in their game. They think they can buy off people like AOC and outmaneuver
her.
Pelosi faced a serious challenge to her party leadership in the
run up to being elected Speaker of the House again. And she paid for that
smooth vote with AOC’s appointment to the House Financial Services Committee.
When you’re going for the kill-shot on Trump there can be no
weaknesses perceived.
But the big betrayal by the Pelosi Set is on war and empire. The
same arguments animating the GOP insurrection against Trump by neoconservatives
keeps Pelosi’s Smug Liberal interventionists happy.
The leadership of both parties love the Empire. They work
non-stop to keep that gravy train flowing. It’s how they stay in power, amass
incredible personal fortunes and why the country at large — left, right and
center — hates their guts.
Do you think AOC wins her primary if the DNC hadn’t been so
thoroughly despicable to Bernie Sanders’ supporters?
Or such full-throated supporters of questionable foreign
interventions?
Pelosi is betting her political farm on border security. She
does so because it is the one issue which galvanizes both her corrupt
leadership with the populist, socialist Left represented by AOC.
They all hate what they perceive as bigotry.
Gabbard:
The Anti-Pelosi
And it is also a distraction from the real issue that Trump put
front and center, the Democrats’ weakness on foreign policy.
By announcing the pull out of U.S. troops from Syria and
Afghanistan he reminded everyone just how much Pelosi et.al. love spending your
money bombing brown people overseas for their profit.
As I said, appearance of strength is all that matters in
politics at this level. Pelosi cannot afford to look at all weak during a
government shutdown she started to oppose Trump and regain the White House in
2020.
So, while Pelosi is focused on being the establishment’s
mouthpiece for taking down Trump to regain control over the vast government
machinery, rebellions are happening within her own party.
Enter Tulsi Gabbard. Gabbard has real promise as the
anti-war/anti-empire insurrectionist within the Democrats. She is a leftist
version of Ron Paul in that she’s hated by everyone who thinks they are
someone.
Because nothing unites the DNC and the RNC like the threat of
peace getting an audience on the national stage.
When “anti-incumbent” is the watchword of the day, Gabbard
throwing her hat into the 2020 Presidential race is a big deal. Gabbard will
get support from anti-war Republicans, Independents and Libertarians.
They will cross party lines to vote for her in primaries,
hurting the anointed ones.
She will successfully fund-raise on ending useless and
counter-productive engagements in the Middle East. With her part of the
Presidential conversation it forces her opposition to adopt her positions while
simultaneously supporting Trump’s struggle against his own staff.
Trump should give her a lifetime membership to Mar-a-Lago.
Yes, she’s a mess economically, but that’s not where her value
lies. She’s everything the current Democratic party isn’t: attractive,
conscientious, brave and committed to peace.
Pelosi’s
Corner
And that is a nightmare for Pelosi. She’s positioned herself as
being against whatever Trump is for. That makes her an easy foil for him.
With Gabbard in the race Trump can go hard on foreign policy and
create havoc in the Democratic primaries. As long as he stays in the game,
Gabbard is his stalking horse.
Don’t underestimate the political points he scored with
canceling Pelosi’s overseas trip. This is the Donald Trump we asked for — end
politics as usual.
Confront the banal hypocrisy of our ruling class.
And, most importantly, call out the cheap virtue signaling hacks
like Pelosi get a free pass on every day in the media.
Trump made it clear that if Pelosi wants to conspire with
foreign leaders against him that she can do it on her own dime.
And having the shutdown as the excuse in a perfect game of
brinkmanship made it even more effective.
Pelosi acts like she has Trump dead to rights on petty
corruption thanks to Mueller’s songbird Michael Cohen. I don’t discount how
hard they are gunning for Trump now. But like Theresa May in the U.K. over
Brexit, there is only so much people will take in service of petty party
infighting.
Eventually a real political revolt occurs. Just ask Italian
Democrats or Emmanuel Macron.
So Pelosi has to be careful how she plays her hand here. She’s
losing to Trump on the wall. Every day the argument against it looks both silly
and hysterical. $5.7 billion is less than one week’s interest on the national
debt.
But, she’s pot committed to her position that ‘walls are
immoral.’ What she may find out here is that if you back someone like Trump
into a corner and promise to destroy everything he has, then he then has nothing
left to lose.
And that is when he is most dangerous to not only her but to
everyone she’s beholden to. After that her own people’s knives come out.
https://tomluongo.me/2019/01/18/pelosi-fiddles-while-the-democrats-burn/’s knives come out.