Their hold on power is based precisely on their making promises and taking no action. Democrats have done this as a matter of routine, and Republicans have been too bed-wettingly fearful to do otherwise. Until now. Trump is a businessman, he wants tangible results, and he got them. He threatens the entire establishment so that Republicans are moved to vigorous action, for the first time in their undisturbed careers as second-place holders, to campaign against Trump with a passion completely absent from their campaigns against Democrats. Trump is threatening them all with obsolescence, the number of conservative Blacks is on the rise, and Democrat cities are in flames.
I was reading Adam Ulam's The Bolsheviks when this interesting parallel occurred to me.
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What many don't understand is that this has been what the Democratic Party has been from it's founding. They were always anti-constitution. They were formed by the same class of people who were royalist during the Revolutionary War. They have always believed that deception is their pathway to power. They believed, and still do, that if they could institute the anti-constitutional, anti-state's rights popular vote, then they could overturn the results of the Revolution and return the United States to the proper form of government, which is Plato's Republic. For those who don't know what that is, Plato's Republic advocated an uninformed and uneducated slave class, a moderately educated merchant class and a highly educated ruling class.
From their founding, Democrats have fought for this kind of societal arrangement. It is who they are. They try to pretend that they are the ones who instigated all the great civil rights reforms over the last century and a half but that is simply a lie. Freeing slaves was achieved by Republicans and never accepted by Democrats. The right of women to vote was passed by Republicans and denounced by Democrats. The Democratic president didn't have the ability to veto it. The right of Blacks to vote was passed by Republicans and denounced by Democrats. The Civil Rights Act was passed by Republicans and denounced by Democrats. They only get on board with the social change once they know they can't stop it and only to use it as a tool of division.
Everything in our political history that has reduced the power of government in our lives has been denounced by Democrats. Everything that has increased the power of government in our lives has been supported by Democrats. This will never change and as we can see around the country (and around the world) they would rather preside over complete destruction than relinquish their grip on power.
This is why they refuse to accept the results of elections they lose and it's why they always try to cheat. They cannot accept the Will of the People nor can they accept being rejected by the people. They will punish the people, as they are now doing, for refusing them their right to power.
They don't care about black lives or worker's lives or the children or suburban women or illegal immigrants or the uninsured or any other cause they come up with. They care only about power and the money they can generate with it.
Many Republicans are the same, no doubt, but thanks to Donald Trump, they seem to be being purged from the party.
Being as cynical as I am, I didn't trust that he would be what he he has shown himself to be. I'm so glad I was wrong.