It was the end of the big year with three zeroes. The first X-Men movie had broken box office records. You couldn’t set foot in a supermarket without listening to Brittney Spears caterwauling, “Oops, I Did It Again.” And Republicans and Democrats had total control of both chambers of legislatures in the same amount of states. That was the way it was back in the distant days of the year 2000.

In 2016, Republicans control both legislative chambers in 32 states. That’s up from 16 in 2000.

What happened to the big donkey? Among other things, the Democrats decided to sell their base and their soul to a very bad billionaire and they got a very bad deal for both.

It was 2004. The poncho was the hottest fashion trend, there were 5 million new cases of AIDS and a former Nazi collaborator had bought the Democrat Party using the spare change in his sofa cushions.

And gone to war against the will of the people. This was what he modestly called his own “Soros Doctrine”.

“It is the central focus of my life,” George Soros declared. It was “a matter of life and death.” He vowed that he would become poor if it meant defeating the President of the United States.

Instead of going to the poorhouse, he threw in at least $15 million, all the spare change in the billionaire’s sofa cushions, dedicated to beating President Bush.

In his best lisping James Bond villain accent, Soros strode into the National Press Club and declared that he had “an important message to deliver to the American Public before the election” that was contained in a pamphlet and a book that he waved in front of the camera. Despite his “I expect you to die, Mr. Bond” voice, the international villain’s delivery was underwhelming. He couldn’t have sold brownies to potheads at four in the morning. He couldn’t even sell Bush-bashing to a roomful of left-wing reporters.

But he could certainly fund those who would. And that’s exactly what he did.

Money poured into the fringe organizations of the left like MoveOn, which had moved on from a petition site to a PAC. In 2004, Soros was its biggest donor. He didn’t manage to bring down Bush, but he helped buy the Democratic Party as a toy for his yowling dorm room of left-wing activists to play with.

Soros hasn’t had a great track record at buying presidential elections. The official $25 million he poured into this one bought him his worst defeat since 2004. But his money did transform the Democrat Party.

And killed it.

Next year the Democracy Alliance was born. A muddy river of cash from Soros and his pals flowed into the organizations of the left. Soros had helped turn Howard Dean, a Vermont politician once as obscure as this cycle’s radical Vermont Socialist, into a contender and a national figure. Dean didn’t get the nomination, but he did get to remake the DNC. Podesta’s Center for American Progress swung the Democrats even further to the left. And it would be Podesta who helped bring Hillary down.

The Democrats became a radical left-wing organization and unviable as a national political party. The Party of Jefferson had become the Party of Soros. And only one of those was up on Mount Rushmore.

Obama’s wins concealed the scale and scope of the disaster. Then the party woke up after Obama to realize that it had lost its old bases in the South and the Rust Belt. The left had hollowed it out and transformed it into a party of coastal urban elites, angry college crybullies and minority coalitions.

Republicans control twice as many state legislative chambers as the Democrats. They boast 25 trifectas , controlling both legislative chambers and the governor’s mansion. Trifectas had gone from being something that wasn’t seen much outside of a few hard red states like Texas to covering much of the South, the Midwest and the West.

The Democrats have a solid lock on the West Coast and a narrow corridor of the Northeast, and little else. The vast majority of the country’s legislatures are in Republican hands. The Democrat Governor’s Association has a membership in the teens. In former strongholds like Arkansas, Dems are going extinct. The party has gone from holding national legislative majorities to becoming a marginal movement.

And the Democrats don’t intend to change course. The way is being cleared for Keith Ellison, the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus with an ugly racist past, to head the DNC. Pelosi will oversee the disaster in the House. And Obama will remain the party’s highest profile national figure.

There could hardly be a clearer signal that the left intends to retain its donkey herding rights. Soros and his ilk have paid for the reins. That is why Pelosi, with her access to donors, will retain her position.

The left had recreated the Democrat Party and marginalized it. Much of this disaster had been funded with Soros money. Like many a theatrical villain, the old monster had been undone by his own hubris. Had Soros aided the Democrats without trying to control them, he would have gained a seat at the table in a national party. Instead he spent a fortune destroying the very thing he was trying to control.

George Soros saw America in terms of its centers of economic and political power. He didn’t care about the vast stretches of small towns and villages, of the more modest cities that he might fly over in his jet but never visit, and the people who lived in them. Like so many globalists who believe that borders shouldn’t exist because the luxury hotels and airports they pass through are interchangeable, the parts of America that mattered to him were in the glittering left-wing bubble inhabited by his fellow elitists.

Trump’s victory, like Brexit, came because the left had left the white working class behind. Its vision of the future as glamorous multicultural city states was overturned in a single night. The idea that Soros had committed so much power and wealth to was of a struggle between populist nationalists and responsible internationalists. But, in a great irony, Bush was hardly the nationalist that Soros believed. Instead Soros spent a great deal of time and wealth to unintentionally elect a populist nationalist.

Leftists used Soros money to focus on their own identity politics obsessions leaving the Dems with little ability to interact with white working class voters. The Ivy and urban leftists who made up the core of the left had come to exist in a narrow world with little room for anything and anyone else.

Soros turned over the Democrats to political fanatics least likely to be able to recognize their own errors. His protégés repeated the great self-destruction of the Soviet Union on a more limited scale

Soros fed a political polarization while assuming, wrongly, that the centers of power mattered, and their outskirts did not. He was proven wrong in both the United States of America and in the United Kingdom. He had made many gambles that paid off. But his biggest gamble took everything with it.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-01/how-george-soros-destroyed-democratic-party

Good read.

Mainstream democrats are starting to lose them also. Liberals aged 18-25 who came out and voted, volunteered, and donated to Bernie Sanders generally refused to vote for Hillary in the general election. To this demographic, Democrats are just as much a problem as Republicans. These people are true believers of the revolution. They see democrats the same way most of us do all politicians, as snakes willing to sell out there constituents for reelection funds.

But did he destroy it?

The deep, dark blue power core of the nation (NY, CA, NJ, MA, IL, etc) have solidified single party rule in a lot of ways and is poised to resist by any means necessary (even with violence).
I kind of wonder if his mission was more to create a civil war eseqe divide between red and blue and capitalize on the instability that this creates.

It would be nice, but I doubt it.

Soros may have seriously damaged the Democrats, but we're watching the slow suicide of the Republicans.   

I'm not counting them out yet. Hillary would have won this last one against anyone else. They had it fixed and frauded, they had the propaganda turned up to eleven. Cruz just would not have been able to handle it. Hillary + the activist judges we have already in place would have burnt this whole thing to the ground by now without the ones she'd have appointed in the future. Their corruption runs deep and it's not going away two months into a new administration especially when better than half the Republican party is in on it.

More like the deep blue core of cities of San Francisco, LA, Sacramento, Boston , Chicago, Newark, etc.. that's the only reason those states are blue. I have to add Denver and Boulder and what they have done to my state.:(

And yet the Republicans still can't get a damn thing done.

Too many rinos they are used to being the cuck party

Mena

That is true but those cities set policy for the states in question.

So the 49.9999999999999999% or less of us are kinda trapped behind enemy lines. In California, despite having single party rule at the state level, they haven't stopped. Now there is a push, even in my fairly conservative, relatively small town to district it so that the Hispanics and low income folks have a louder voice to implement their leftist agenda. Some attorney has filed suit claiming that our city is discriminatory and unless districts are formed he will take them to court. Since the court fight is way more costly then the districting process, the city has decided to just set up districts. The left will not rest until even the small town dog catcher is a leftist crony.

And the left is continuing to project power, turning purple states light blue (OR and WA spring to mind) and even formerly conservative strongholds like AZ are getting a slightly purple tint.

WTF I love Soros now.

the key difference is the democrats platform is deeply unpopular, so they speak in lies and platitudes.

the republicans only have to do what they say they will.

Seal the border, kick out the illegals, cut taxes, get government out of health care and the schools.  All of which they say they will do.  Democrats can't say that.

republicans would own politics for a generation.

Shit, the contemporary GOP has been a cluster-fuck since George Bush senior said "read my lips, no new taxes."

Even a state like the People's Republik of New Jerseystan isn't all blue. It's not unlike the rest of the US where the urban areas are democrat and out number the rest of us.  

While it sounds good, I'm not so sure about all that.