Blue State Blues: After Montana, What If Democrats Are in Trouble in 2018?
by JOEL B. POLLAK
BreitBart.com
26 May 2017
Republican Greg Gianforte defied media expectations by winning Thursday’s special election to the U.S. House of Representatives in Montana.
The race had been neck-and-neck, and then Gianforte allegedly assaulted a reporter. It seemed his chances were doomed.
But if callers to talk radio were any indication, some Montanans may have voted for the Republican precisely because he had “body-slammed” a reporter. That is how much the media are disliked.
Leaving aside, for the moment, questions of what that says about the increasing coarseness of our democracy, the GOP win in Montana also illustrates something fundamental about the Democratic Party: it cannot conjure a reason for people to vote for it.
Unless you are a member of a minority that has been indoctrinated to fear Republicans in general and Trump in particular, or a coddled member of the bourgeois “Resistance,” the Democrats offer nothing.
The conventional wisdom is that the Republicans are in deep trouble in 2018 — at least in the House (the Democrats must defend 25 seats in the Senate against the Republicans’ eight, and ten of those Democratic seats are in states Trump won in 2016). That fear is one reason House Republicans cannot unite around the Trump agenda.
But after Montana, it becomes reasonable to wonder whether Democrats are actually in danger in 2018, for five reasons.
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