By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--December 26, 2009
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But now they face a grim political fate. On the one hand, centrist Democrats are being vilified by left-wing bloggers, pundits and partisan news outlets for not being sufficiently liberal, “true” Democrats. On the other, Republicans are pounding them for their association with a party that seems to be advancing an agenda far to the left of most voters. The political dangers of this situation could not be clearer.Unfortunately for Mr. Daley, the figureheads at the top of the party are all true socialists. Obama, Pelosi and Reid are the most un-American set that have ever taken power in this country. Even worse than the socialist cabal of the FDR Administration. Daley warns that the party better go back to being the centrist party that won it elections. But he says they aren’t “doomed.”
Despite this raft of bad news, Democrats are not doomed to return to the wilderness. The question is whether the party is prepared to listen carefully to what the American public is saying. Voters are not re-embracing conservative ideology, nor are they falling back in love with the Republican brand. If anything, the Democrats’ salvation may lie in the fact that Republicans seem even more hell-bent on allowing their radical wing to drag the party away from the center.I hate to say it but Daley is right. The extremist trajectory of the Democrat Party is already hurting it in a major way. Of course, I hope that it continues that way until it is not only in the wilderness, but destroyed for decades to come… but that’s just me. Suffice to say, William Daley is right but it is likely that his warning will fall on deaf ears. It is the nature of a party to keep going in a straight line until the voters deliver a rebuke that sends it reeling backward. In fact, it isn’t just the nature of parties, but the nature of humans. Prudence is not very common despite the “common sense” of it. ____________
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.