The Democrats’ Death Wish: The Disappearing Destiny of the Donkey Party

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Brietbart:

I. The Democrats’ “Euro Envy”

Let’s state our thesis up front: The Democrats are in so much trouble on the immigration/border security/counter-terrorism issue that only a truly bone-headed move by the Republicans could save the Democrats from electoral debacle in 2016 and beyond. Which, of course, is always possible, even if, thankfully, it is increasingly unlikely.

 

Perhaps the biggest problem that the Democrats have is Euro Envy. That is, leftist Americans are deeply influenced by the leftist politics of Europe and therefore determined to emulate all its features—whether ordinary Americans like them or not.

 

Yes, European social democracy, if not communism, has long been the lodestar of American liberalism. For more than a century, American “progressives” have admired the European welfare state in its plenitude: high taxes, national health insurance, and big foreign aid budgets—and, more recently, libs have revered it all the more for its devotion to combating “climate change.”

 

But leftists don’t just want progressive policies; they want progressive institutions to permanentize those policies. Hence the building up, and lauding up, of the European Union (EU). The EU is a multinational, multicultural edifice that represents the fond dream of globalists on the left—and, in a curious bit of congruence, the fond dream of corporatists on the right as well. The EU today is a kind of regional United Nations, seeking to subordinate the “evils” of nationalism and sovereignty under the heel of a new transnational bureaucracy.

 

So perhaps the greatest mission for the EU—and a cause that unites progressives on both sides of the Atlantic—is open borders. Yes, the crown jewel of the EU is the Schengen Agreement, which established the principle that an EU resident could go anywhere in the EU without so much as stopping at a border gate or checkpoint. And to the delight of empire-building EU-ers, the Schengen Area has grown huge—although many now say that it’s too big to police and protect.

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The death of the Democratic model.