BY FRANK VERNUCCIO
It is healthy for rival political
parties to have vigorous,
sometimes even
harsh, debates.
However, there are lines
that should not be crossed.
The use, threat, or condoning
of violence must never
be used. The employment of
outright lies does not move
the national discussion forward;
it only makes the environment
far worse. The use
of political power to silence
opposition is completely unacceptable.
Inciting hatred
and prejudice between different
segments of society
is abhorrent.
Since the Democratic
Party lost the election of 2016,
it has crossed those lines, repeatedly
and substantially. In
its convention this summer to
nominate a presidential candidate,
it had the opportunity
to return to a more appropriate
course of action. It failed
to do so and that failure bodes
ill for the future.
The Democratic Party
of Harry Truman and John
Kennedy no longer exists.
The mid-twentieth century
emergence of a political
party that captured much
of the center of the American
electorate has been replaced
by an elitist core that
does not honor patriotism,
national unity and a willingness
to work hard to build a
better future.
To those small business
owners that labor countless
years and long weekly hours
to build success, Obama said,
“You didn’t build that…”
To American workers who
trusted him to bring back the
jobs that China stole, he said
“…hard truth is that some
of the jobs that have been
lost in the auto industry and
elsewhere won’t be coming
back.”
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reasonable to expect that
a very substantial rejection
have played a major role at
the DNC convention. It did
not occur.
of the party, as evidenced by
the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-
Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Ilhan
Omar, Ayanna Pressley and
Rashida Tlaib has alienated
many Democrats. The clear
and unmistakable acceptance
of anti-Semitism by Democrats
Sarsour has violated the trust
many Jewish voters placed in
the Democrat Party, as did the
anti-Israel, pro-Iran policies of
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the Obama Administration.
While seeking to portray
himself as a moderate nominee,
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Following the horrifi c riots
that occurred in Democrat
run cities such as New
and elsewhere, it was
of such tactics would
The sharp leftward tilt
such as former DNC vicechair
Keith Ellison and Linda
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Joe Biden has fully accepted
the extremist policies
of the radicals. Indeed, he has
done so for some time. During
his tenure as vice president,
he counseled Obama not to
take out Osama Bin Laden. He
has remained comparatively
silent as his party increasingly
accepted socialism and
anti-Semitism.
As vice president, he was
part of an administration
that used illegal and unconstitutional
tactics to harass
and intimidate political opponents.
He willingly went along
as President Obama sent billions
in cash to Iran. He has
promised to return to the intimidation
of Catholic organizations
such as the Little Sisters
of the Poor who refused
to accept Obama’s mandate to
provide coverage for acts their
religion deems unacceptable.
These are not policies that
Democrats that cherish the
legacy of JFK and Truman
fi nd acceptable.
Following almost three
years of an outright lie that
sharply divided the nation,
the now thoroughly disproven
“Russian collusion” nonsense
that Democrats made the centerpiece
of their politics, it
was reasonable to expect that
Democrats would have used
their convention to call for a
new emphasis on actual issues
and challenges, not political
infi ghting. That did not
occur. While the political urge
to not alienate anyone, even
fringe groups, is understandable,
the utter failure of Democrat
Party leaders to forcefully
and repeatedly renounce
the actions that has shaken
American cities to their core
is condemnable. Calling the
disorder “mostly peaceful”
is false.
There is room for all perspectives
in the national dialogue,
but there is no place for
the tolerance of violence, bigotry
and falsehoods.
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