The Democratic Party for the past half century

While the conservative press is today going ga-ga over Joe Biden’s pardoning of his son Hunter yesterday — noting accurately that Biden’s action proved himself once again to be a liar and a fraud, having spent the last four years insisting he would never do such a thing while also insisting that “no one is above the law” — I think it more instructive to look at what some of the most rabid partisan leftists have been saying, before and after the election of Donald Trump.

You see, some of these partisan leftists are actually doing something I have not seen a partisan leftist do since before Bill Clinton was president — they are showing an ability to have an open mind.

Let’s begin with two members of a leftist podcast group dubbed the Young Turks that for years saw nothing good about any Republican and considering Donald Trump the epitomization of the devil himself. Anything Trump did was wrong. Everything Trump and the Republicans represented was evil and must be opposed blindly. During and after this presidential election campaign however two of the more noted members of this podcast, Ann Kasparian and Cenk Uygar, changed their tune, and did so in an astonishing way.

First there was Kasparian’s announcement in October that she has left the Democratic Party. Watch:

NEW: The Young Turks producer Ana Kasparian says she left the Democratic party after she was mol*sted by a homeless man with an er*ction in Los Angeles.

Kasparian said she was shamed by liberals for stating that she felt fearful to leave her house after the incident.

Kasparian… pic.twitter.com/R1Ds980urO

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 12, 2024

She had been molested by a homeless man on the street, and when she said this incident made her fearful of leaving her house, leftists she had thought “were the good people” immediately attacked her as a “racist” for daring to say anything critical of the homeless, even though she never mentioned the man’s race.

Since then, her analysis of the political landscape has been far more objective and thoughtful. Instead of being consumed by partisan hatred of Republicans, she suddenly is, as she notes, awake to the lies and corruption within the Democratic Party. It might have taken her a long time, and she certainly remains a dedicated leftist in policy matters, but she has finally seen the light.

Her partner at Young Tucks, Cenk Uygar, has similar seen the light. As he wrote on X last week:

I’ve been trying to figure out why I’m more optimistic now than I was before the election, even though I was so against the guy who won. I know now. MAGA is not my mortal enemy (and neither is the extreme left). My mortal enemy is the establishment. And they have been defeated!

Nor was this statement by Uygur a sudden outlier.

Uygur, who said he disagreed with the “majority” of Trump’s agenda, has been openly critical of the Democratic Party on a host of issues, including a perceived delay in calling on President Biden to drop his reelection bid since last year. “[Biden] is not going to win,” Uygur said in October last year when announcing his primary bid, nearly a year before Democrats pressured Biden to withdraw following a disastrous debate with Trump. “It should not have been me, it should have been somebody else, but unfortunately it was not anyone else.”

Both of these leftists have for years spouted standard Democratic Party talking points blindly. No more.

We can also see this change with Andrew and Chris Cuomo, two of the Democratic Party’s most visible party hacks. Until the last year, both could see nothing good from Trump or any Republican. Now, both have been changing their tune in remarkable ways.

Andrew Cuomo, who was kicked out as governor of New York because of accusations he was sexually harassing his employees, had spent years using lawfare in his state against conservatives while routinely opposing violently anything Donald Trump did. In recent months however he been finally able to admit that such lawfare against Trump is wrong.

Andrew Cuomo tells the truth about the political Trump prosecution.

The crowd goes silent and Bill Maher agrees.pic.twitter.com/oK08xD47m4

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 22, 2024

His brother Chris meanwhile immediately issued an apology to Trump after many Democrats publicly expressed disappointment that the two assassination attempts against him had failed.

“I called former President Trump,” Cuomo said. “I didn’t ask him any questions. I didn’t go after him about his role. I just want to know how his family’s taking this.”

“I wanted to just say, listen, I’m really sorry that this is going on and it’s being dealt with this way,” Cuomo continued.

Cuomo — who was fired by CNN when evidence showed he had helped keep secret his brother’s sexual harassment — repeatedly slammed Democrats for expressing hope another attempt might succeed, calling it “unacceptable.” He has since shown — like Kasparian — an unprecedented willingness to criticize Democrats and agree with Republicans and Trump, something he simply would not have done when he was an anchor on CNN.

Nor are these four leftists outliers. Numerous Democrats across the board have shown similar open-mindedness. The endorsements of Trump by Democrats Robert Kennedy Jr and Tulsi Gabbard illustrate this trend as well.

Don’t misunderstand me. I am not naive. I do not think any of these partisan leftists have my interests at heart. All remain socialists who would do great harm to the country and my individual freedom if they ever gained extensive political power. With the Cuomos especially the goal is regaining their positions of power in the media and Democratic Party. They have realized that their only path to success is to show themselves to be fair-minded, and so that is what they are doing.

Similarly, both Kennedy and Gabbard should not be trusted blindly. They now have positions of power within the Trump administration. As they are definitely not conservative, if they not watched closely they could easily do more harm than good.

The former mantra of Democrats,
now finally showing signs of cracking

Nonetheless the actions of all here are truly unprecedented. In forty years, since Nixon, Democrats have almost never shown any similar open-mindedness. Instead, their approach was to always attack, to always assume they were 100% right, and to never ever for an instant consider the other point of view.

Thus, reasoned debate became impossible. Our society became divided, with no way to cross the divide. Worse, the Democrats unwillingness to debate allowed them to take increasingly radical and insane positions — such as supporting the castration and mutilation of little kids in the name of “gender,” the unwillingness to recognize the difference between men and women, the advocacy of racial quotas and blacklisting, and the blind support of genocidal terrorists like Hamas.

That so many Democratic Party partisans are finally showing they can have an open mind is the most positive sign I have seen for America in decades. It means that we might at long last have a real debate about what to do next.

It also means that these truly insane leftist policies pushed by Democrats in the past decade can finally be defeated, and quickly. Furthermore, this new open-mindedness on the left has made it possible for other radical changes — such as making real and deep cuts to size the federal bureaucracy and its budget — to finally be considered seriously.

Change now is happening. And while it will not go in a straight line, nor be as fast as some (like myself) might desire, it is still going to happen. Hold onto your seats. The roller-coaster ride we are about to take is going to be quite exciting.