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Behind the Green Door
February 16, 2025
Something I forget to get to in the show is this post in the state-sponsored Politico about how the Democrats are sad about the state of their brand. The other day James Carville was moaning about how they are in such terrible shape and Trump is indestructible. He said something along the lines that what would have easily killed most political careers just bounces off Trump. Together they get to the heart of the crisis in the political class.
The use of the word “brand” is the place to start. For the regime, politics has been about tricking enough of the rubes to keep the racket going. Having control of the centers of cultural production convinced them they need only come up with a new way to display themselves to the people whenever the old way of selling their brand grew stale. Mark Warner is a perfect example. He was the first guy to do the Elmer Fudd act to trick the rubes into thinking he was normal.
Carville’s line about not being able to destroy Trump speaks to the other side of how the regime operated for decades. While one side of the regime tried to trick enough people to claim a majority, the other side sought to destroy anyone who challenged them. Carville’s lament is about how that tactic no longer works. In fact, it seems to have fueled Trump to regain the presidency and now set fire to the institutions controlled by the regime.
The regime is still not understanding what is happening. Yesterday I saw an ad on YouTube that had a collection of actors pretending to be locals here in West Virginia. They were mouthing all the progressive lines, but through actors pretending to be working class and rural. It is the same crap they have been doing for decades. Supposedly, these locals are angry at Trump for cutting Federal jobs and not addressing environmental justice in West Virginia.
That was the power of government money. Until a month ago, they could pull this stuff and get showered with praise from a government funded audience. Tens of billions, easily more than a hundred billion a year, buys a lot of applause. Never getting any push-back made them lazy and stupid. Now that the money is gone and there are only jeers, they have no idea how to respond. They are the guy in his driveway trying to start his car, even though the battery is dead.
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