National
Review editor Jonah Goldberg drew up an expert analysis of what holds the
Democratic Party together and makes them an incredible political juggernaut.
They are not an ideological coalition based on individual liberty, limited
government, and a respect for constitutional governance.
They are a coalition of differing and otherwise
bickering coalition of ideologies, all with different agendas. Labor unions and
LGBT groups, for example, will often stand on the same side because their
gross, over-arching goal is more power coupled with an expansion of the state
to benefit their pet interests.
What is happening now, however, is that
different left-wing coalitions are gaining more or disparate power in the
federal government at the expense of other interests. Bi-coastal elites have
demagogued immigration for decades, but not once have they intimated their
interest in living next to men and women of different heritage or ethnic
status.
The Democratic elements with the most power have
the most money, and that means Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and the trendy New
Yorker set. They don't care about ethnic minorities. They don't really care
about Latinos.
They only care about those votes and enriching
themselves through expanded government largesse.
Gutierrez blasted Democrats for acquiescing to a three-week spending bill in exchange for a DACA vote, adding that he did not see “how a vague promise from the Senate Majority Leader about a vague policy to be voted on in the future helps the Dreamers or maximizes leverage the Democrats and American people have over the Republicans right now.”
“If the Republicans said we are ending
same-sex marriage, but we promise Democrats a vote later; or we approve of oil
drilling in every national park, but you’ll have a vote later – do you think
the Democrats would say yes?,” Gutierrez asked. “This shows me that when it
comes to immigrants, Latinos and their families, Democrats are still not
willing to go to the mat to allow people in my community to live in our country
legally.”
Of
course, anyone could argue that radical communist Luis Gutierrez is just
posturing, too, even though he’s about to retire from Congress.
Where
have the Democrats been all these years on this contentious immigration issue? In
2007, more Democrats than Republicans voted against an immigration reform
package. In 2010, Obama had consummate one-party control of Congress, and Democrats
did nothing on immigration.
Now they
want to play up the issue again just to score political points with their base,
but their base is beyond frustrated with Democrats. They have been promised by
leaders in both chambers that they will get a Clean Dream Act vote. It’s not
going to happen, and the 3-Day shutdown, which Schumer lost, confirms that any
kind of deal is dead on arrival.
It’s not
going to happen, folks. No matter what President Trump says or does not say,
and no matter how challenging the situation may seem for Republicans to demand
that their own caucus hold the line against amnesty, Democrats are going to
fail on every single promise. Democratic lawmakers will behold a decimated grassroots,
so dispirited that they will not vote in 2018, all but assuring that Republicans
hold onto power in both chambers.
The coalition
of ideologies is falling apart, of course, because the resources of the state
are ultimately limited, and the competing third-party interests have found that
they have to fight hard against other interests to ensure they get the most
crumbs or get the best seat at the table with the governing party.
