Was Obama The Architect Of The Democrats' 2024 Defeat?
A John Kass essay linked at Real Clear Politics yestesrday, To Move Forward, Democrats Must Oust Obama , tries to argue one point, but it actually proves another: [H]ow did America get to the point where Republicans, once the country club white shoe party of the Bush family, could begin to wrestle with Democrats for the votes of the working class, minorities and women? How did the Republicans win so decisively? It was Trump. What he did in remaking the Republican Party is simply astounding. But first he had to politically eviscerate the Bush family political dynasty that controlled the GOP. And so he relentlessly attacked Jeb!, then the standard bearer of the Bush clan for the disastrous war in Iraq, which slaughtered thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis while wasting trillions of American dollars on this and other endless neo-con forever wars. With that, the Bush GOP panicked and whined, but the Bush era was mercifully over. Eventually, working cla...