Is Democratic Party Ripe for Populist Takeover?

trump populism“We got the highest vote count in the history of the Republican Party,” about 13.3 million primary voters, Donald Trump announced at the convention.  His defeat of the GOP establishment has been a modern miracle.  He simply outmaneuvered the party’s familiar campaign strategies.

       Shakeups aren’t always as comfortable as sticking with a status quo that no longer works.  Much-needed revolutions never are.  Campaigns become more theater and entertainment than a platform for logical exposition.  No other choice.  Middle America is the same as Colonial America, isn’t it?

         Incumbents were too slow to respond to the Trump juggernaut, leaving sinecure holders only one option as individuals, that is,  the “GOP Elite Will Save Themselves by Supporting Hillary.”  It was an easy reflex choice, because so many have been steadily absorbing Democratic Party liberalism to make themselves politically more appealing. 

     With the GOP more centrist and moderate these days, the door is open for Democrats to normalize what had once been more extreme.   Democratic candidates in states like South Dakota, however, usually forget to normalize themselves, so tend to lose elections.

      The Trump tidal wave has so far pushed aside unanimous opposition from the anti-Trump media, most people’s only way of assessing the world.  Like print news sources, televised news on look-alike CBS, ABC, NBC, and PBS remains the only free-and-in-the-clear choice for average Americans.

      Significant swaths of the recent GOP Convention in Cleveland were simply eliminated or undercut by anti-Trump “commentary” and nitpicking.  No moment in the sun to project an unfragmented political vision.  Perhaps Trump should use some of his money to buy a television network, offering a solitary, but competing First Amendment voice.

    So it’s fortunate that populist movements always issue spontaneously from the population, and the unabashedly socialistic Democratic Party may be  ripe for takeover.  There’s a simple process for getting on the ballot.

      In fact, disgruntled moderate GOP “no shows” at the recent national convention should seriously consider changing parties to run as moderate Democrats.  Why wait to be unseated in some upcoming primary?

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