The election of Donald Trump is proof that a great awakening is shaking up the country, and the two major political parties must contend with a massive sea change.
The Republicans, it can be argued, have already begun to grapple with their issues as the eventual nomination of Trump and the ultimate repudiation of the hardline #NeverTrump faction within their party showed.
But for the Democrats, a day of reckoning is just beginning, and internal strife surely will cast a wide net around anyone who was ever associated with or promoted the corrupt, toxic family known as the Clintons.
The people at the center of the election debacle — namely, Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta, campaign manager Robby Mook, press secretary Brian Fallon and advisors Tony Podesta and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe are all arguably smeared for years from their association with the Clintons, who for all intensive purposes can be called a crime family, whose members may yet still face indictment for their transgressions.
The infamy and undeniable corruption of the campaign has brought shame and finger-pointing to those who encouraged Hillary Clinton to run for president again in the first place, in spite of her being beaten soundly a first time and having “more baggage than a 747,” as the British Financial Times wrote recently.
Even before the outset of her campaign, Clinton and others in her party made it clear that not only would she be the party’s nominee, but that she was the odds-on favorite to become the country’s next president, despite the election not taking place for more than another year at least.
The Clintons announced a massive war chest larger than that of any other political candidate in history, which would eventually total more than $2 billion. A large number of corporate and billionaire donors were lined up, with many names coinciding with those who gave indiscriminate amounts to the Clintons’ eponymous foundation, which by this time was one of the largest cases of charity fraud in the world.
Even though Clinton ostensibly faced two primary challengers — Socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley — it was clear to anyone who could read between the lines that Clinton was the pre-chosen nominee-in-waiting, who only had to amass the necessary delegates to face a Republican challenger.
Through now-exposed steering, a secret agreement and media collusion, Sanders was relegated to the media sidelines of the primaries (O’Malley had dropped out at the very beginning), even though for a brief time, popular support enabled Sanders to temporarily threaten Clinton’s standing.
The outright rigging of the Democratic Party’s primary is unprecedented in modern times and may yet result in lawsuits, damages and/or criminal charges for members or leaders of the DNC. At the very least, it revealed the dark workings of the party’s inner machinery in ways that were both unpleasant and scandalous for those involved.
Even worse than the primary shenanigans are the activities uncovered by documentary filmmaker James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas. O’Keefe caught on hidden cameras paid Democratic consultants Scott Foval and Robert Creamer conspiring to foment violence at Trump rallies and commit voter fraud.
The resulting videos went viral on Youtube and extremely disgraced the Democrats, who quickly issued lame excuses claiming that Foval and Creamer were only “temporary regional subcontractors” using unauthorized practices in their consulting work. (It later came out that Robert Creamer had visited the White House no fewer than 340 times, meeting with President Obama personally at least 45 times).
Despite the very clear admission and exposure of this wrongdoing, the Democrats showed neither real guilt nor capitulation; they appeared ready to continue down the very same path of illicit activity that got them to a highly contentious place where they neither satisfied their party’s hardcore supporters nor were strong enough to dominate the engagement of the opposing conservatives.
While many Democrat voters tentatively disagreed with their party’s tactics, they were willing to go along with its nominee as long as the stench of scandals both past and present could be well ventilated from the public media space.
Unfortunately, despite the DNC’s now-proven direct connections to mass-media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and NBC, valiant attempts to filter out the malodor of the Clinton campaign were unsuccessful. The much-covered Clinton email server scandal was successfully portrayed as being the Democrats’ version of Watergate (even original Watergate journalist Bob Woodward agreed with this assessment).
The ample airing of this dirty laundry through Alt-Right websites such as yours truly, American Liberty Report, and others like Breitbart News and the Drudge Report was an important component in enabling a November Trump victory at the polls.
Between the email issue, the willingness to promote Clinton over the more popular choice of Bernie Sanders (who had initially shown better polling numbers against Trump), proven media collusion and a cavalier attitude, the Democrats proved that a “win-at-all-costs” strategy was neither moral nor viable as many on-the-fence and independent voters decided the Clinton brand was too compromised and the Democrats too unethical in their methods to support.
As it stands, the Democratic Party has scarred its reputation and its integrity, perhaps permanently.
A massive “housecleaning” operation, perhaps in conjunction with a few well-crafted public mea culpas might go some distance toward healing the perception of the party as an organization. But for the party to once again claim that it cares about the wishes of voters will likely take an extensive election post-mortem and forensic analysis of what went wrong with the entire Clinton project.
~American Liberty Report
