The battle for another is just beginning.
Every time the liberal candidate for president stood behind a podium in this 2020 election, there was a placard there announcing that this election was the battle for the soul of the nation. I always thought that moniker was the epitome of supreme arrogance and hubris for a party that couldn’t do enough to keep God out of its platform, identity, decisions, and future. Well, today that party is declaring victory and likely has won the White House. I have not faith in the courts to change any voting rolls—just like in 2000 with Gore v. Bush. But one thing in this election has been decided. And, it has been decided clearly.
One party may have won the White House, but not the soul of the nation. If anything, the soul of the nation tonight is a bit dusty. But, it is not defeated. And it certainly wasn’t won by anybody. Just ask a Democrat.
You can hear it in the disgust of Democrat Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger of Virginia on today’s Democrat caucus call: “We lost races we shouldn’t have lost. Defund the police almost cost me my race because of an attack ad. Don’t say socialism ever again. We need to get back to basics.” Many moderates have already lashed out at the Bernie Sanders/Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/ “riots and looting are reparations”/green new deal/defund the police/Democrat socialist wing of the liberal party. There may indeed be a battle brewing, but it won’t be for the soul of the nation.
Many commentators have already picked up on this reality. More minority votes came in for the conservative this time around. Al Sharpton is disgusted by the fact that the conservative did “better than he should have” with minority voters. Like the New York Times who claimed this week that they are the arbiters of who wins the White House, the Reverend Sharpton must be the one who determines for whom minorities vote.
The battle for the soul of the Democrat party has been joined. Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has already shot back at her detractors. This should be interesting to watch from the side-lines. I have no intention to wade into this hot mess.
You see, I used to be a Democrat. My first campaign rally was in 1970. Harry F. Byrd, Jr. was running for re-election to the US Senate, but at that time the liberal wings were starting to emerge even in conservative Democrat land. Until Barack Obama, Conservative Virginia Democrats had voted for the Republican for president in every election since Lyndon Johnson (1964). Conservative Virginia Democrats even gave Gerald Ford his only southern state against Jimmy Carter in 1976. In 1970, Byrd was required to sign a loyalty oath to his now-more liberal party and platform. He refused and was re-elected as an Independent from Virginia—easily. This is how I cut my political teeth at the age of seventeen.
It might take fifty years or so for the Democrat party to settle the issue of who determines what is the soul of the party. Twenty years ago, I predicted that any civil war in our nation would occur between the left and the far left. I think it’s going to fester for a little while before widespread anarchy breaks out again in our cities. But sooner or later, the far left is going to have to come to grips with the fact that they cannot get the autonomy they want from the left-wing and the two are going to go at it. If I lived in a blue state city, urban center, or metropolis, I wouldn’t hang around.
How will it end? How long will it take? I don’t know.
But when the survivors turn to those of us who are residing here in the heartland–in the soul of the nation, who love our constitution, the rule of law, who are pro-life, pro-religious freedom, pro-small government, pro-capitalism, pro-strong national defense—who value truth over our own freedom, we should be ready to receive them with open arms and give them the reason for the hope that we have. In the community of nations, that hope is the United States of America.
She may not realize it, but in Virginia, and I suspect other formerly red states, these are the “basics” to which Congresswoman Spanberger is referring.