A LINE HAS BEEN CROSSED

Guest Post by Ol’ Remus

Where did all the kitchen table Democrats go—the Democrats as they were understood by past generations. You remember, they fought for the common man, championed the working family, gave unto Caesar but overturned the counting tables.

These were the Depression-era Democrats who assisted destitute families who migrated from harvest to harvest and lived in tents. The Democrats who sponsored mega-projects to employ the jobless and who sided with unions to give wage earners leverage against exploitation. Then, during the world war, they protected us with rationing and price caps and home visit nurses, and after the war, they sponsored government-backed loans to finance homes for returning GIs. It’s a great story.

These were the Democrats who advertised themselves as the party of the little guy, from mill worker to cab driver to store clerk. They fought the “special interests”. We didn’t know what “special interests” were but we knew it wasn’t us. We were the homey demographic where Mom was wise and resourceful and wore sensible shoes, where Dad always found time to mentor the kids so they would grow up right and become the best Democratic voters ever.

How did Everyman, the struggling and perpetually wronged object of their doting attention, become a deplorable xenophobic, homophobic, racist, misogynist drooling lunatic, unfit to look through the window at all that is good and decent? How did “f–k whiteness” become a thing with them? Is the party determined to make enemies of every last white working class person in America? Are white folks now one of their despised “special interests” and a “plague to the planet” ?

What must former John Q. Public do to exonerate himself in the eyes of the party? Would murdering a few cops suffice? How about punching out some elderly Trump supporters? Loot and burn a CVS or two?

How bad is it, really, down at ground level? Daisy Luther went dumpster-diving in their safe spaces and found this spittle-flecked caricature, and others, as cited in her essay, “How Some of the Anti-Trump Protesters Feel About the Rest of America “:

Most of the greasy handed, uneducated, backwoods, “Blue Collar”, toothless heathens that populate this nation and unfortunately the voter pool preferred to sit in their shit stained skivvies in the privacy of their double wide manufactured home and spew their hate on the internet. Not once could these people understand what it meant to mobilized by passion for humanity and equality for all.

These are things not easily walked back. The party owns the anti-white working class thing. Strategic thinkers on the right couldn’t be more pleased. In politics, as one door closes, another opens. Watch for seller’s regret in coming years.

The party’s machine in academia was not slow to condemn the “anti-climate, racist, sexist, or xenophobic” either. For one, the University of New Hampshire Women’s Studies Program quickly volunteered material assistance to an anti-deplorables street demonstration by the UNH College Democrats, something that bills itself as “an organization that encourages students to take an interest in the political process”:

To all of you who stopped in to the office last week, we were so glad to see you and hear from you! WS wants to make sure you know about this march that is happening tomorrow. We have students who are interested in other forms of protest/activism. If you are interested in planning or participating something, lets get you connected! Also-If you want to make signs but need supplies, feel free to stop in to Huddleston 203 for paper/markers etc.

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It’s plain the covenants of state funding that prohibit partisan political advocacy have no force in New Hampshire.

But wait, there’s more. They’ve conflated diversion with diversity. Not to be outdone by the NFL’s ongoing in-your-face mockery of their fans, here’s some feces-flinging by NBA coaches, quoted at Specter:

Detroit Pistons head coach Stan Van Gundy says, of president-elect Trump: “I don’t think anybody can deny this guy is openly and brazenly racist and misogynistic. We have just thrown a good part of our population under the bus, and I have problems with thinking this is where we are as a country.”

and, more generally,

Gregg Popovich, head coach of the San Antonio Spurs says: “I’m just sick to my stomach. Not basically because the Republicans won or anything, but the disgusting tenor and tone and all of the comments that have been xenophobic, homophobic, racist, misogynistic. I live in that country where half of the people ignored all of that to elect someone.”

Perhaps he does, but an improv of contempt for his customers won’t make the accountants happy. Embedded in this list of academic blather is the intended nuclear strike, namely: racist. Long term, the NBA will discover it unwise to put their public face in the hands of partisan activists. Basketball, like football, has become a business of “our blacks can beat your blacks”, fair enough, everyone benefits. But there’s no obvious benefit from endorsing the offensive bombast of their employee’s political coaches.

Whatever else may be said of the old Democratic party, credit was always due them for hard nose calculations. Squandering the good will and material support of middle class working America would have been unthinkable. Simple arithmetic says putative gains elsewhere—the poor by choice, the proudly perverted, the inassimilable, the suggestible and the merely stupid—can’t compensate for such an unforced amputation. The election results verified it.

Predictably enough, after demanding normies demonstrate their Civic Responsibility by embracing an election result thought to be a certainty, then losing in an epic pratfall, they’re sponsoring riots, shutting down major highways, and committing serial vandalism and assault in public places. Their strategists wave it off as “recapturing the narrative” but fantasize about overturning the election “by any means necessary”, including assassination and armed insurrection .

The party specifies the target of this blood frenzy in the starkest of terms: middle America, particularly white middle America. A resurrected JFK himself wouldn’t be safe from them. So. Where did all the kitchen table Democrats go we still wonder, as the unhinged slander and threats blow inland, and as the assaults increase daily . But paralleling that increase, so does fear and loathing for the former working man’s party.

A line has been crossed. What happens from here can’t be known. It can, however, be imagined with a high degree of confidence.