Quick Take: Red Wave Resurgent
And the Dems are starting to sweat...
As America heads into the midterm election home stretch, it seems to have dawned on Democrats that some of their positions on issues of concern to the American people are…problematical.
Exhibit A is Stacey Abrams, Rightful Governor of Georgia and one of the three or four most overrated politicians in America. She’s running for governor again this year and is trailing the Republican incumbent, Brian Kemp. No doubt calculating that abortion is an issue that could close the gap for her, Abrams piped up with the claim, ludicrous in its transparent falsity, that fetal heartbeat is a conspiracy of the Patriarchy. “There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks,” Abrams insisted. “It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body.” So therefore, she implied, a fetus cannot really be considered a human being.
It’s not the first time that pro-abortion zealots have retailed this conspiracy theory. Using circumlocutions and doubletalk, they’ve argued that whatever noise an ultrasound produces, it isn’t a heartbeat—because a first-trimester fetus doesn’t really have a heart. This, of course, is a bastardization of science, besides flying in the face of what every parent knows to be true: that they’ve heard their unborn child’s heartbeat.
But since abortion supporters valorize a woman’s right to choose, the question of fetal heartbeat shouldn’t even be relevant for them. It makes no difference whether a fetus is a human being. That’s beside the point. A woman’s right to choose is paramount—indeed, absolute—at every stage of pregnancy: That would be an honest statement of their position. But it would be a bit too much honesty for most Americans, who while they may support abortion rights, don’t like the idea of it and think that certain restrictions should apply. So Democratic politicians like Stacey Abrams just go ahead and lie, hoping that people will overlook their abortion radicalism.
Exhibit B is the incumbent Democratic Governor of Kansas, Laura Kelly, striving unsuccessfully to thread the needle of radical gender ideology. Because it’s what most people in her state believe, Kelly said recently that “of course men should not play girls sports.” But that got her into trouble with the LGBLT—or whatever they’re calling it this week—community, so she tried, none too artfully, to backpedal. Kelly claimed what she really meant was that biological males over the age of eighteen should not be allowed to compete in sports against girls under the age of eighteen.
If you believe that, I’ve got some riverfront property near Three Mile Island I’d like to sell you. For in fact, Governor Kelly has a down-the-line record supportive of the most extreme gender ideology demands. Twice she vetoed bills that would have prohibited “transgender women,” i.e. men, from participating in women’s sports. But now, with the race between her and her GOP opponent as tight as the paper on the wall, Kelly is trying to obfuscate her gender ideology radicalism.
Exhibit C is an issue of concern to Americans from coast to coast: crime and lawlessness. Having embraced BLM and its defund-the-police agenda in 2020, having pushed criminal-coddling “criminal justice reform,” the Democratic Party is striking a belated and unconvincing pose as the law-and-order party. No Dem has even heard of this defund-the-police thing, it seems. Oh, and the Democrat-controlled House has passed a police funding bill. Better late than never! And anyhow, the Dems complain, Republicans are just being racist when they call attention to the crime and lawlessness that’s ravaging America’s big cities—and many not so big. According to the Washington Post, this constitutes “deceptive or racially divisive messaging.”
Would the Post consider it deceptive if I were to point out that the victims of this crime wave are disproportionately members of minority communities, black Americans in particular? Probably it would, because the only dead black people of concern to white progressive journalists are those few who die at the hands of the police. Any number of black people—children even—can be gunned down during a Chicago weekend by criminals and gangbangers without exciting the Post’s outrage. Stuff like that doesn’t fit the progressive narrative on race.
And when Democrats slap down the race card, you just know that they’re desperate and lying through their teeth.
And finally, there’s the economy. Never in the history of gaslighting has so much happy talk been spewed out to becloud so many ugly facts. Day by day, the signs and portents of a severe recession multiply—layoffs spread like Captain Trips—inflation roars along—the stock market enters bear territory—the real estate market sags. But not to worry—Joe & Co. are on it! Pay no attention to your soaring grocery bill, folks—all is well!
Could it be that Democratic candidates are losing confidence in the notion that the “MAGA Republican” slur, student loan debt cancelation and the Inflation Reduction Act will drag them across the finish line? Their heady blather regarding the wipeout of the Red Wave seems to have died down recently…and a faint, stale aroma of Democratic flop sweat taints the political atmosphere…
What a crock of right wing bullshit this is.