I’ve argued here on the In Box that I think the drubbing Democrats are about to receive will be less ferocious than the conventional wisdom would have us believe.<\/p>\n
But my view is an increasingly lonely one and some of the fiercest pessimists out there are former allies of Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress.<\/p>\n
Across the once-vibrant progressive blogosphere, lefties are abandoning the Democratic ship, trying to put as much distance between themselves and the Mr. Obama as they can.<\/p>\n
This, despite the fact that Democrats have achieved a series of legislative victories, coveted by liberals since the 1960s, including financial reform and health care reform.<\/p>\n
Here’s what Josh Marshall has to say on his popular Talking Points Memo site<\/a>:<\/p>\n What I’m curious about, though, is whether the Dems are ready for the sheer, shuddering, really just deafening chorus of defeatism and ideological self-doubt Democrats are going to face on November 3rd.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Meanwhile, two years into the Democratic reign, liberal Arianna Huffington <\/a>is touring the country promoting a book in which she talks about “third world America.”<\/p>\n Just weeks before the mid-term elections, liberal filmmaker Michael Moore is busily attacking White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.<\/a><\/p>\n And Markos Moulitsas, whose Dailykos<\/a> website was one of the biggest boosters of the new Democratic majority in 2006 and 2008, is accusing Senate majority leader Harry Reid of “whining.”<\/a><\/p>\n Republicans rightly saw the desperate and pathological Democratic need for Republican approval and assent as weakness, and used it to erode Democratic support.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It’s noteworthy that not one of these left-of-center opinion makers is encouraging their audiences to vote, contribute money, or volunteer.<\/p>\n Moulitsas’ article is titled “Here’s how Dems fell apart,” as if the election were already over and dozens of close races were already forfeited.<\/p>\n There’s no mention of efforts to minimize Democratic losses.<\/p>\n With liberals resigned to defeat, and their biggest effort these days is to put as much daylight between themselves and the disaster as possible.<\/p>\n So I’ll stick by my main prediction:<\/p>\n If Republicans do win control of Congress, it won’t be because of a massive surge in GOP support.\u00a0 The Democrats will lose because their own base decided collectively to sit this one out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve argued here on the In Box that I think the drubbing Democrats are about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}