Political parties thrive on clear contrasts, especially easy-to-understand soundbites and snapshots, and one of the most effective ways to create contrast is by defining an enemy, whether real or imagined.

Yet we find the Congressional Republicans reluctant to demonize and attack their progressive communist democrat opponents. This asymmetry in political warfare gives Democrats an advantage in shaping the narrative. Meanwhile, Republicans, despite facing open hostility, often try to play by outdated norms of civility, leaving them at a strategic disadvantage.

Republicans, by nature, tend to frame their politics around preserving institutions, tradition, and order. Explicitly labeling the opposing party as an “enemy” can seem too radical or destabilizing, especially to establishment figures like George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, who want to characterize themselves as “gentlemen” among the barbarians.

With the GOP, it’s mainly about the money.

Many Republican donors and business leaders want political stability. Openly declaring Democrats as an existential enemy could disrupt relationships with bipartisan corporations, Wall Street, and trade groups that fund campaigns and direct the flow of money to special interests on both sides of the political spectrum.

Unlike the progressive communist democrats, who have a highly engaged activist base that thrives on moral urgency and where casting Republicans as an existential threat to democracy, human rights, or social progress is an effective way to energize their coalition.

And, more importantly, because Republicans hesitate to reciprocate this enemy rhetoric, knowing that the progressive communist democrat propagandists in the media will defend them, even with bald-faced demonstrable lies. Democrats don’t face significant political consequences for their extremely toxic rhetoric. They can escalate their language without worrying that Republicans will effectively do the same.

Bottom line…

The progressive communist democrats’ identity is shaped by what they oppose as much as by what they support.

• It appears that the progressive communist democrats are openly rooting for the failure of the United States, economically and socially.
• The progressive communist democrats are openly attempting to keep illegal aliens, even those who are violent criminals, from being deported.
• The progressive communist democrats are openly attempting to curtail the discovery of government waste, fraud, and abuse, and to keep government funding far-left enterprises that do not benefit the country or its lawful citizens.
• The progressive communist democrats are openly attempting to divide Americans into groups based on race, gender, and wealth, promising each group to promote their specific interests while redressing their grievances in return for political power. One need only look at American Indians, Blacks, or residents of any democrat-governed ghetto to see the diversion of billions of dollars into special interest pockets.

It’s time for the congressional GOP to grow a set of balls and directly attack those progressive communist democrats who are trying to destroy our nation from within.

We are so screwed.

--  Steve