By now even a narcoleptic could recite the GOP's parody of Democrats.
The party of "big government." Champions of "class warfare" programmed
to "tax and spend" other people's money. An amalgam of interest groups
divorced from the national interest. Practitioners of "identity
politics" bent only on getting to 51 percent. Enemies of the "job
creators." Enablers of listless bureaucrats and their shiftless
dependents. Spineless hand-wringers with no respect for our past or
faith in our future.
A lot of this is political bilge, a shameless
inversion of the GOP's divisive politics and intellectual vacuity. In
debate all three Democratic candidates are specific, informed and
grounded in a reality largely absent from the Republican contest. But
all too often, and particularly on the stump, Democrats themselves can
verge on self-parody, purveyors of programs bereft of a larger vision.
According to public opinion expert Peter Hart, the great majority of
Americans want a new course after the Obama years, and by two to one
believe that America is headed in the wrong direction. Bilious as it is, Donald Trump's pledge to "make America great again"
touches something deeper than just resentment or nostalgia -- a desire
for national renewal which, at its best, could inspire a more
transcendent politics, transforming widespread angst about our future
into a shared and positive mission.
All too often Democrats who speak of pragmatism rather than with vision fail to
transcend.
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