What would taking apart the American government look like? The headline deck at Fox News read as follows:
Socialists launch radical platform to abolish the US Senate in bid to fundamentally transform America
The radical update also calls for amnesty for all immigrants and defunding the Department of War, sources say
This jewel of a story reports:
“As many of its candidates notch electoral wins nationwide, the pre-eminent socialist political group in the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), plans to roll out an updated platform that includes eliminating the Senate and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by Congress.
According to a source familiar with the DSA’s planning, the organization plans to roll out an update next week to its long-term vision for a U.S. policy platform. The update includes eliminating the U.S. Senate and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive branch and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.
Additionally, the updated platform would include amnesty for all immigrants and defunding the Department of War.”
Well now. Democrats have plans afoot to eliminate the United States Senate? Replace the elected president and the Supreme Court “with an executive and judiciary chosen by Congress”?
And oh yes. There was this: "the updated platform would include amnesty for all immigrants and defunding the Department of War.”
Not to be too obvious, but with all of that -- essentially a story about turning the Republic that is the good ole USA into a socialist dictatorship -- one would think this news would be all over the place. With the entire American media both reporting this and then analyzing and critiquing a story that is essentially about those who want to dismantle American democracy. Haven't the media endlessly worried about democracy being dismantled by MAGA?
For some strange reason, presented by Fox with some pretty hard facts on a seriously big story about a growing faction inside the "Democratic" party, the rest of the American media has gone quieter than the proverbial church mouse. Why?
There can only be one of two reasons. Either the rest of the “mainstream” media doesn’t believe the story and chooses to ignore it. Or, in fact, they do believe the story and have some quiet agreement with the “Democratic Socialists” and their scheme to turn the American Republic upside down and inside out, reshaping America beyond recognition.
Either way, the media ain’t looking so good as this story emerges.
There’s more in all this. The DSA touts itself as “a “working-class alternative to the Democratic Party.” It added: "Our newly elected leaders will fight for the working class — not for crumbs."
Hmmm. Not to put too fine a point on it, but in the long ago of 1980, the media was certain GOP nominee Ronald Reagan was going to lose to Democrat President Jimmy Carter because, you know, the GOP was the party of the country club types. The election arrived. And to their absolute shock, the media learned Reagan’s landslide had come about thanks to what was called “Reagan Democrats” -- working class folk who hung their working hard hats at places like Detroit auto workers’ union halls.
The bottom line? The American media is all too frequently wrapped up in lefty politics -- not reality. The left wing version of reality is that working class Americans are all natural lefties, or close to it. The GOP is supposedly the sniffy party of the Country Club.
Even all these years after the appearance of the “Reagan Democrats” the media is still caught up in the once-upon- a-time political myth that said Democrats were the party of the working class and, as noted, the Republicans were the party of the Country Club. Once upon a time political eons ago -- in the days of Democrat working class hero Franklin D. Roosevelt -- that worldview was true. But in fact, Democrats gradually sold out their party to the world of intellectual, highly educated elites. To short hand it? Democrats became the party of Harvard and Ivy League university types. And it lost them the votes of working class, union-belonging workers.
That transition was made a long time ago.
And it amuses to see left-wing elites lose sight of the fact that President Trump, he who worked his way to billionaire status, began as the son of working class Queens, New York. And without doubt, to this day, Trump carries himself and thinks as the son of working class Queens.
Which is exactly why the President is so popular with working Americans.
It is very safe to say that those parading around as Democratic Socialists of America are clueless about working-class Americans, certainly those who are enthusiastic Trump supporters. In fact, it is easy to suspect that the members of the DSA look down their noses at working-class Trump supporters - the union members, the auto workers, the plumbers, electricians and all the others who exist and work in the blue-collar world.
This is irrelevant at this point. Donald Trump has been elected twice. Come January 20th of 2029, President Trump will be flown back to Mar-a-Lago or wherever else he chooses to go.
The question will be, and is already being increasingly asked: Will the media be doing a deep dive on just who is the President’s successor? Vice President Vance? Secretary of State Rubio? An unknown Other?
And there’s the other question. Will “Trumpism” as it could be called -- go on? Will the page of history be turned as always, with new ideas and policies in place to move the country forward in new ways or old? And will the media zero in to analyze and report?
The first indicator of this next chapter in American history will take place with the 2026 mid-term elections. And with the media trying to make sense of it all.
And to close on a historical note?
In 1964, Democrats swept to power with liberal Democrat President Lyndon Johnson clobbering conservative Republican Barry Goldwater. I was (ahem!) a geeky kid reading the political news in the day. And I well remember the various media stories of the day that thought the GOP had met its end.
Yet a mere two years later in 1966, Republicans had a massive mid-term election win. And one of the conservative GOP leaders who appeared seemingly out of the blue - to the astonishment of the day’s media - was a supposed “B actor” named Ronald Reagan who won a landslide election as Governor of California.
And as they say, history records the rest of that story. Buckle in. Trump supporters and conservatives are on the march.
Memo to the media? Try paying attention to what the DSA actually believes.
