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Three strange incidents occurred in recent weeks. Nancy Pelosi was "shouted down by immigration activists for trying to strike Dreamers deal with Trump." Hillary Clinton's book received disappointing reviews from the left, and former FBI director James Comey was heckled at Howard University. “Go home Comey, you’re not our homey.” The audience was turning on its performers.  All were signs the once reliable Blue Model is misfiring.

 

Time magazine ...  offer a brutal assessment concerning the direction of the Democratic Party. One rallying cry from the Left is that Clinton lost because she ... wasn’t left wing enough. Every time the party has gone this way in national elections, they’ve lost in a landslide. ... to win back the House, to redraw congressional maps favorable to the Left—you need to rebuild the party apparatuses in the rural areas, which have all but disintegrated.

 

In a classic case of the law of unintended consequences, identity politics is undermining globalism instead of being its tool. The unexpected drawbacks are being felt as far afield as Europe. Spain, one of Europe's pillars, seems about to break up. "Spain’s EU partners fear a mounting crisis over Catalans’ latest push for independence, and their public support for Mariano Rajoy belies some disquiet that the conservative prime minister’s hardline tactics might backfire."

 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, through a spokesman ... [stressed] it was an “internal Spanish matter” [but] .. that Berlin had “great interest in the maintenance of stability in Spain”. ...

 

While publicly refusing to take sides on whether a Catalan breakaway is desirable, few European leaders would welcome it.

As with the 2014 referendum in Scotland, which unlike Catalonia’s vote was held with the blessing of the central government in London, countries fear encouraging separatists at home: Belgium’s Flemings, Italy’s Lombards and so on. There is also a broader unwillingness as Britain exits from the EU to open another Pandora’s box of economic uncertainty and legal disruption.

 

It can no longer be denied that "global institutions" are in trouble. Trump's UN speech about the resurgence of nations may not be as foolish as the media says. Vox wrote that "in his maiden speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, President Donald Trump painted a dark vision of a world where every nation stands alone and cooperation is transactional and motivated by self-interest rather than shared values."  But that seemed exactly the sentiment activists at Howard University intended to convey. “Go home __, you’re not our __.”  There's the other and there's the us.

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