Democrats string together too many promises -- and get tied up in knots
SAN DIEGO -- As Bob Dylan might put it, Democrats are tangled up in blue.
They've promised so many goodies to so many groups that they can't possibly deliver to all of them. Doing so would result in taking care of some supporters but taking others to the cleaners. In trying to be all things to all people, Democrats have all but ensured that they will disappoint and disillusion.
As the cattle call of presidential candidates gather this week in Detroit, Michigan, for their second round of debates, let's examine how conflicted and twisted the Democratic Party has become.
Sure, the party is diverse. But it's also disunified and disorganized.
Of course, the Republican Party is also a mess. A real estate tycoon -- who turned out to be a natural politician in the worst sense of the phrase -- turned the GOP inside out. Think about all the race talk. In one of the great magic tricks of all time, The Great Trumpini got the party that freed the slaves, integrated Central High School in Little Rock in 1957, supported civil rights bills in the 1960s, and gave us the first two African American secretaries of state to make excuses for racism.
But this doesn't change the fact that the Democrats' big tent has become a circus. John F. Kennedy's admonition that Americans should ask what they can do for their country has been replaced with: "What are you going to do for me?" Dreamers. Teachers. Blue-collar workers. They all have their hands out. And trying to make everyone happy only makes everyone angry.
The latest argument is taking place in Congress, and it's over whether the House of Representatives ought to impeach President Trump. Now that the Mueller report has been reduced to a door stop at the Democratic National Committee, the liberal media is playing up impeachment as the next big story.
Of course, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is going to kill that story. It's not because she's protecting Trump. It's because she knows that being impeached would give Trump the martyr status he craves, rally Republican voters and make it harder for Democrats to retake the White House in 2020 -- and allow her to retain the gavel.
But even before the fight over impeachment flared up, Democrats were not exactly one big happy family. They were already at each other's throats over a litany of other issues -- where they overpromised and will likely underdeliver.
On immigration, Democrats can't decide whether to push for so-called "sanctuary laws" and health care for illegal immigrants, or go to bat for white working-class voters who want fewer immigrants because they can't compete with their work ethic and for African Americans in the inner city who worry that their neighborhoods are changing color.
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