It is presently being replaced by the Democratic-Socialist Party. If you think I exaggerate, consider these examples.
Imagine that any candidate last night had had the courage (or lack of sense) to actively defend President Bill Clinton’s policies on welfare reform, capital gains tax cuts and balanced federal budgets, or his 1996 State of the Union assertion that “the era of Big Government is over.”
Imagine that any candidate had agreed with President Barack Obama’s original 2008 position that “I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.” Or imagine that a candidate had defended Obamacare as the solution to health care in America and opposed any limitation on the right to buy private insurance.
When the last two Democratic presidents are no longer defendable, something profound has happened.
We have already seen the old Democratic Party (and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn literally represent the old Democratic Party) being eclipsed by “the Squad.” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now the spiritual leader of House Democrats, and every major Democratic presidential candidate has endorsed radical Green New Deal-type proposals that would expand government, destroy the energy industry, radically change America and plunge the economy into a depression.
The Democratic-Socialist Party wants to outlaw private health insurance, punish the successful (especially the wealthy) and expand government control over virtually everything. The Democratic Socialist candidates range from wanting to confiscate guns; to forcing the radical California gender curriculum in every state; to removing the tax exception for every church, synagogue and mosque that defines marriage as between a man and a woman; to providing free (meaning taxpayer-funded) health care to people living in the country illegally; to opening the border so anyone and everyone will be able to enter the United States without having to worry about immigration law.
Some of these radical candidates favor tax-paid sex change operations in prison, and some argue that male criminals who declare themselves female should be sent to women’s prisons (one of Biden’s contributions to the dialogue).
Imagine that one of the candidates had said he or she were against abortion. The result might have been a riot—and at a minimum an expulsion of the heretic. Instead, the new Democratic-Socialist Party stands for abortion on the last day of pregnancy, and its most radical acolytes are now for infanticide after delivery, as long as “the infant would be kept comfortable” (see the New York State law endorsed by the Democratic governor of Virginia).
Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich is the chairman of Gingrich 360, the host of the Newt’s World podcast and author of the New York Times best-sellers Understanding Trump and Trump’s America.
The views expressed in this article are the writer’s own.
