Planting themselves in a toga or a trench is not warfare, it is going to seed. m/rWorks and Days » A Beat-up, Exhausted, and Terrified Republican Establishment
By Victor Davis Hanson On February 2, 2014
On almost every contemporary issue there is a populist, middle-class argument to be made against elite liberalism. Yet the Republican class in charge seems ossified in its inability to make a counter-argument for the middle class. Never has the liberal agenda been so vulnerable, a logical development when bad ideas have had five years to prove themselves as very bad ideas. When Obama is all done he will have taken high presidential popularity ratings, a supermajority in the Senate, and a large margin in the House and lost them all — if only the Republicans can make an adequate case that they represent the middle class, the Democrats only the very wealthy and the very dependent.
Illegal Immigration
We know the entry of 11 million illegal aliens depresses the wages of the poor and entry-level working class. Illegal immigration overwhelms state services, and that too hurts citizens most in need of help. …
Energy
Fracking and horizontal drilling help the middle class …
Gun Control
How hard it is for Republicans to say to liberals, “I accuse! The wealthy have their security details, most of them armed. …
The Federal Reserve
Barack Obama’s Wall Street is booming, not because of a superb business cycle, but because there is no interest on capital anywhere else to be found. The rich profit from their more sophisticated knowledge of stocks, the poor from debt relief. The middle? …
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