[ April 19, 2024 ]
The Washington Times’ Charles Hurt appeared on the Tucker Carlson show Wednesday night to discuss how recent events are “playing right into the hands of Donald Trump.” He cites the success of radical leftist candidates in recent Democratic primaries and, in particular, the race that everyone is talking about, 28 year-old Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s surprise win over ten-term Congressman Joseph Crowley in New York District 14. It was once thought that Crowley, referred to as the “King of Queens,” might even become the next Speaker of the House if Democrats regain the House majority in November. Instead, as Trump said, “he got his a** kicked.” The Democrat’s lurch to the left, Hurt believes, will not play out well in the general election.
He compares it to the Tea Party candidates who prevailed in the 2010 Republican primaries, but were too far to the right to win in a general election. An example would be Tea Party senate candidate Christine O’Donnell’s defeat of the more moderate Delaware Congressman Michael Castle in the primary. She lost the general election because she was far too conservative for the state. Prior to the primary, Castle, who had served two terms as governor and nine terms in the House, was considered a shoo-in to beat the Democrat, Chris Coons.
Similar scenarios played out all over the country in the 2010 mid-terms. At one point, it appeared likely that Harry Reid would lose his Senate seat to Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle in Nevada. Instead, he won the race. It was thought that a more moderate, more seasoned candidate could have derailed him.
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Throughout the recent New York District 14 primary, Ocasio-Cortez “attacked Crowley for his race saying that, as a white man, he was not fit to represent the district. She explicitly said this election is about race.”
Carlson and Hurt wondered how a candidate could get away with saying that “the election is about the color of a person’s skin.”
Ocasio-Cortez also ran on abolishing ICE and impeaching Trump. Those may be winning issues in NY 14, but a tough sell elsewhere.
Hurt: Increasingly, it (discussing race) is something that is accepted coming from the left…Ever since the beginning of the whole Tea Party movement, we’ve been waiting for a similar reckoning to hit the Democratic party. I think that’s what we’re seeing now…These people are communists and that’s a real problem. Democrats are going to have to contend with this and this is not going to be the last sitting Democrat who is going to get ousted by some socialist, who wants free stuff for everybody, who comes out of nowhere.
Tucker: This candidate in Queens ran explicitly against ICE and called for a South African style Truth and Reconciliation Commission to go through the sins of ICE, the human rights abuses. Are you going to see other Democrats run on that same platform?
Hurt: We’re going to see actual mainstream Democrats in Congress pushing this lie about ICE. And, my goodness, what do you expect when they accuse ICE agents and border patrol agents of being like Nazis.
Asked by Carlson if a candidate can win on this platform, Hurt said:
Hurt: Maybe in NY 14, you can win on that platform, but I guarantee you, anywhere else across the country, you’re not going to be able to win on this and all of this plays right into the hands of Donald Trump.
I would argue that Donald Trump got himself reelected this week and it’s because of crazy stuff like this and the Maxine Waters stuff and the haranguing people in public. It’s all playing into Trumps hands.”
The interview clip appears in the following video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDpXYlNyGLE
Conservative commentator Michele Malkin questions not only the patriotism of the “Abolish ICE” movement, but also their sanity. Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America party. These are “shrieking radicals that oppose any immigration enforcement.”
She points out that approximately 20 Democratic candidates are running on the Abolish ICE platform, including several sitting Congressmen. There are many others, who aren’t calling for outright abolishment of ICE, but who insist on major changes in immigration law. ICE field offices across the country are under siege and some have been forced to shut down, such as the Portland, OR facility I reported on here, due to protestors. Yet, no party leaders are condemning their actions.
President Trump is now trying to make Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters, two of the least popular members of Congress, the faces of the Democratic party, which is a very effective strategy.
The more Trump achieves, the more “unhinged” their rhetoric becomes. In fact, The Republican National Committee has just released one of their best ads ever, based on this theme. Inside of one minute and seven seconds, it provides voters with ten reasons why they should not cast their ballot for a Democrat in November.
“The Left in 2018: Unhinged”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFRHX6glTSM
I agree with Charles Hurt. It’s been a very good week for Donald Trump.
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40 Comments
5 years ago
#MAGA #Trump2020 #KAG!! #WINNING
5 years ago
something tells me that the democrats will suffer burnout and won’t even vote much….if it keeps on with them having no new material, and all they can do is disrupt
5 years ago
Reply to
wall poster
Its time to debar politicians who use race to get elected . And those who oppose / call for abolishing immigration control.
Left/Libs welcome illegals/jihadis and run around like cowards after they start committing gang rapes, assaults http://bit.ly/2uHm0YC
But thankfully most folks in America have begun to see through it.
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
The LEFT is completely exposed.
There is no poll out there that validates people want OPEN BORDERS or MASS IMMIGRATION.
POLLS state the OPPOSITE. We are literally being invaded.
5 years ago
Reply to
wall poster
The Demoncraps had been freaks, are freaks, and will increasingly be more and more freaky in the future.
What happens in NY14 will not stop in NY14.
It will spread.
It will spread to other precincts all over the country.
Demoncraps have been taken over by communist fascism, and they will increasingly do what the Maduro camp has done inside Venezuela, using force to intimidate their opponents.
Be prepared, Patriots !!
Be prepared to fight the communists.
Be prepared, for the sake of America !!
5 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
Yes Americans, be prepared.
But beware of your leader who is, with his lies and search for self glory, alienating the rest of the world against you.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mickey Oberman
Bullshit Mickey! The rest of the world you refer to is Iran, the failed EU, Mexico etc, etc.
5 years ago
Reply to
Shuali
Keep going, Shuali. You left out all those free countries whom he selects to abuse with insults and lies who once thought America was a friend..
But time will tell. Rapidly shortening time.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mickey Oberman
Need no worry, pal.
We only ‘alienate’ those who truly deserved to be ‘alienated’.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mickey Oberman
He doesn’t have to “search” for glory – it’s written all over him – HE LOVES AMERICA – unlike you, trying to sow sedition
5 years ago
Reply to
Moya McNulty
Aha! and you are the usual style bigot too.
I really should not be surprised.
5 years ago
Reply to
Moya McNulty
Thanks to your hero who, until 2 weeks ago was also my hero, as well as the obtuseness of you and so many like you, America is now tearing itself apart and losing all its friends and allies.
Trump’s arrogance and lies are destroying even the Republican party.
I hope, Moya McNulty, for the sake of your country, you awaken before it is too late
5 years ago
Reply to
Moya McNulty
It should not be hard for even you, Moya, to find Trumps brilliant speech in which he vilifies America;s oldest friends and and supporters and allies withe lies and more lies.
5 years ago
DEMS are also very screwed!
Thank Harry Reid for the NUCLEAR OPTION!
A SIMPLE MAJORITY is need to confirm a Justice.
So do it BEFORE the midterms and DEMS can’t stop it.
Trump will tip the scales to a CONSERVATIVE Supreme Court for at least a generation.
Kagan’s nomination was confirmed by a 63–37 vote of the United States Senate on August 5, 2010. Three months BEFORE the November MIDTERMS! She replaced Justice John Paul Stevens. What comes around goes around! 🙂
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5 years ago
Grandmaster of Trolling 🙂
5 years ago
” It’s been a very good week for Donald Trump.”
And a tragic week for America and the world.
Trump, the one track self glory seeker, will stop at nothing to attain his own glorification.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mickey Oberman
Substitute “Mickey Oberman” for “Trump”, and I totally agree with you !!
5 years ago
Reply to
ed
Hey ed,
I too, like you, was until two weeks ago a strong supporter of Trump from when he first announced he was running for president.
And I am a mere Canadian.
But when Trump started spouting his false fabrications and outrageous lies about my Canada I was appalled and shocked. I gave the matter a lot of thought.
I came to the conclusion that a man who would turn against his oldest and closest friend and staunchest ally was not worth the paper he uses to wipe himself.
Perhaps you, too, ed, should take some time to think.
He is playing the same dirty game with all his friends and allies.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mickey Oberman
Can’t you tell, Mickey, that Trump abhors Trudeau and his Muslim pandering open border policies and is making a statement about Trudeau and the Liberals in Canada. In this abhorrence for Trudeau I, also a Canadian, completely agree with him. Trump picked a fight with Trudeau and not with Canada. Moreover Trudeau will not come out a winner in this fight but Canada will. For example the Liberal majority will be destroyed and perhaps the Conservatives will win the next Federal election.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mickey Oberman
HARDLY, Mr Uberman. President Trump is NOT the oldest & closest friend of your prime minister,
nor his staunchest ally. First of all, President Trump is almost twice his age – and they barely know each other! They move in ‘slightly’ different circles.
I lived in Canada once, and I watched Pierre Elliot Trudeau for years – now THERE’S a serious MAN!
This mealy-mouthed little ‘pansy’ you have now is a joke.
However, there’s nothing ‘mere’ about Canadians. REAL CANADIANS are fantastic people.
I hope they come to their senses soon.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mickey Oberman
Well, I guess I shouldn’t have expected anything else from you. You have your “opinion”.
You may believe me to be “a hopeless idiot” – BUT I KNOW I AM NOT A LIAR.
Don’t bother replying.
5 years ago
Reply to
Moya McNulty
“Thanks, Mo Ya for your permission ” Don’t bother replying.”
I really have had much Mo Ya than I can bear.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mickey Oberman
Like America’s Democrats and its bigots like ed and old white guy and Moya McNulty et al.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mickey Oberman
You are squeezing old lemons Mickey. Same comment about ‘glory seeking’ JRT .
5 years ago
Reply to
Mickey Oberman
You have a one track mind with little more than what you have already stated about Trump to offer. All your comments and replies revolve around your comment ….
” It’s been a very good week for Donald Trump.”
And a tragic week for America and the world. Trump, the one track self glory seeker, will stop at nothing to attain his own glorification.”
Need I be clearer??
5 years ago
Reply to
Shuali
Shuali, You are brilliant !
Thank you for repeating my message.
You may do it as often as you wish.
I wont charge you any royalties.
5 years ago
There was a poll I saw on Clash Daily, where the question is “Will there be a civil war within the next five years in the USA?” Frankly, I don’t think it is going to take that long to get it started, because the liberals are going insane.
5 years ago
Well, now the mask has slipped, and the Marxist hard left in the Democrat Party in New York have admitted some of these elections are based on racial and “white power” issues. If the left can play that card, so can the right.
If this debate was honest, the links would be drawn to prove the theory that too many coloureds being faced every day as they are with the evidence that when white people [together with the best coloureds} wish to progress, making themselves richer and in so doing building great societies where the rule of law rules and opportunity for all exists, they get their noses to the grind stone, study and apply themselves to the task whatever it is until success is achieved..
Countless examples exist around the world where local non white people run their affairs to their liking and things don’t go so well, look at Mexico with 36,000 killings or parts of Brazil where like so many other places, the poor strive for wealth and “security / respect” through crime instead of application and industry.
Envy in people can become very destructive to the common good WHEN it’s given a racial justification, but to the left what matters is destruction and chaos.
5 years ago
Ocasio-Cortes and her ilk may be the “next big thing” in NY and the northeastern US but are a major flop along the Rio Grande. Try living down here in close proximity to the Mexican border unarmed. I dare you to.
Be safe, be trained, be alert.
5 years ago
My one BIG quibble with this otherwise excellent article was the writer’s (unnecessary) bashing of the terrific “Tea Party” candidates he mentioned (Christine O’Donnell in MD and Sharron Angle in NV), claiming that they were “too conservative” to ever be successful. But they really blazed the way – and, in a word, were harbingers of things to come, and they helped lay out a more conservative GOP base in the election cycles that followed. I maintain that Sarah Palin, who met with Donald Trump on more than one occasion, in a way, “passed the baton” to Trump and gave him her enthusiastic endorsement. Trump had the balls, the chutzpah and the sheer audacity to throw back in the face of all the PC libtoids the same crap they were shoveling at him (and had shoveled at Palin)! Furthermore, it really took someone like Trump to carry it all off, but Palin came closer to his feistiness and bold daring than ANY of the 16 GOP wannabees that tried to challenge him in the run-up to the convention, ever could!
5 years ago
Reply to
Joy Daniels Brower
O’Donnell was in Delaware. We’re small, but we get just as many senators as everyone else!
We can agree O’Donnell and Angle would have been fine senators. So would Roy Moore from Alabama. But the older I get, the more I think it just matters what party someone is from. Individual idealism doesn’t matter, just whether McConnell has the votes to get good stuff passed, or not.
5 years ago
Reply to
David
Sorry about that, David!! How could I have forgotten the geography & capitals of all the states that I once knew by heart?!? My bad! I almost agree with you about the importance of the party label over the more idealist & iconoclastic politicians, but most ot the others are “pale pastels,” when “bold colors” are needed and, indeed, are often more attractive and inspiring! But McConnell is a walking contradiction and one almost never knows which way HIS wind blows!! On some issues, he’s excellent; on others, he’s a useless as “tits on a bull!!” He can do as much harm as good – sort of like, “The Lord giveth, and the lord taketh away!” I’m so sorry that everyone and everything of GOP importance has to pass the smell test for the Chinless Wonder!!
5 years ago
Looks like Mad Maxine and Nasty Nancy got their B Job face on.
5 years ago
We shall see. It’s impossible to predict what will happen in the next two years. This presidency has proven it’s grand unpredictability.
