The Democrats lack of vision and planning makes them, the forever losing party.
Back in 2004 in the midst of 2 illegal wars which had colonized and destroyed 2 countries in less than 2 and half years, a large segment of the US population had unified and defined the George W Bush White House by manufacturing some of the largest marches and resistance movements which coordinated across states and almost all metropolitan cities since the days of the Vietnam War.
In yet another close election the people had mobilized under one common cause, to stop the war which 15 years later still continues today. But that summer then mayor of San Francisco and rising democratic star Gavin Newsom decided that the democratic party was as much as his as any ones.
Gavin Newsom wanted to make the issue of same sex marriages which was an issue important to his constituents a national issue. In several staged same sex marriage unions, he presided over the ceremony, obviously attracting media attention and gave several follow up interviews throwing himself and the issue of same sex marriage into the national spotlight.
To the Republicans this was political gold, because their constituents predominantly live away from the coasts where the populations are high and dense. Diversity is something that is a part of New York, Washington DC, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, you cant get away from it.
But for much of the US, diversity is something that is seen on TV, so naturally as humans we are scared and apprehensive about what we are not familiar with.
Republicans recognizing this in their constituents took the message of Gavin Newsom back to Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio and Michigan and advertised it as, “look those evil gay people from California want to make your kids gay.”
This was the perfect rhetoric leading up to an election. It was exactly the few extra pushes they needed to galvanize their voters and essentially the electoral college members whom voted Goerge W Bush
into a second term which ended in the countries worst economy crisis in almost a 100 years.
This year, in a loud exhausted, not well thought out response to a second Supreme Court Justice nomination for President Donald Trump, the democrats rolled the dice and decided to make Brett Cavanaugh the centralized figure in trying to win a demographic they had not had much success with since 1952.
Traditionally it is not only white men that vote Republican, but its also white women. (Watch Rebecca Traister brilliantly explain this on the Bill Maher Show) The Democrats wanted to make Brett Cavanaugh the poster boy for the mid term elections in taking over the Senate and House of Representatives. Their plan was to enrage women, but specially white women by presenting the face of white privilege through displays of acts which would emotionally touch them and enrage them.
Instead, the Democrats made a mockery of the Committee Hearing Process , the same way Trump is a mockery to the presidency. Their empty attacks on Brett Cavanaugh were not all intended in displacing the Supreme Court Nominee. When the President nominates a candidate, he has already counted his votes and they knew they had lost
The Democrats objective was to use the Cavanugh hearings as an attack on Trump and the Republicans. This foolish strategy displayed in essentially using a game of spin the bottle to discredit Justice Cavanaugh looked petty and baseless. It made Brett Cavanaugh, a figure from a privileged background which was so easy to dislike, a sympathetic figure.
Remember the movie Good Will Hunting with Robin Williams and Matt Damon?
There is a scene in that movie where a know it all jerk in a bar who attends an Ivy School mouths of like the jerk that he is, obviously even displeasing his own group of friends before Matt Damon's character puts him in his place. Well Brett Cavanuagh was the jerk in the bar, one of the good ol boys, and somehow the Democrats managed to make him a sympathetic
figure which dissipated their 10 point lead in the polls and crushed all momentum moving forward.
The Republican party has firm deep rooted leadership with a true vision, detailed planning and goals. Compared to the Democratic party that seems to parade through life like a hippie child intending the best but never prepared and always late.
The Republican agenda is transcribed from the ghost of Winston Churchill which was written over a 100 years ago and has not changed, but yet the Democrats are always playing catch up, reacting instead of taking the lead as leaders should do.
Like it or not, the top level Republican candidates talk and walk just like the people, from George W Bush to Donald Trump, these multi-generational millionaires and billionaires understand what it means to 'dumb it down', which is not a rap term anymore referred to