The Democrats’ Days of Rage and Denial

Their self-delusion in defeat is as predictable as a sunrise

 

by Jim Geraghty December 6, 2016

 

It’s not often that “go die in a fire” is given as an option in an ultimatum, but Professor David Faris, writing in The Week, has urged congressional Democrats to grab a torch: The Democratic negotiating position on all issues put before them while they are in the House and Senate minority for at least the next two years should be very simple: You will give us Merrick Garland or you may go die in a fire.

 

Faris’s piece, already rocketing around Facebook, is entitled, “It’s Time for Democrats to Fight Dirty.” There is nothing more reassuring to the members of a political party that just lost an election than the notion that they lost because they were “too nice,” or because the electorate couldn’t grasp the nuances of their message. After 2008 and 2012, some Republicans convinced themselves that they had lost not because of any real flaws in their agenda, message, or candidates, but because they were too high-minded and not tough enough. Democrats told themselves the same after losing in 2004, 2010, and 2014..........Read more