Does America Have a New Natural Governing Party?

“These are not new principles. They defined the Republican Party for most of its history, a party that had always included a progressive element.”

Political parties die. Who now is a Federalist? Where are the Whigs today? The Federalists became Whigs, and the Whigs became Republicans, but this time it feels different. There is no sure and certain hope of a resurrection, and for the current iteration of the Democratic Party it looks like the long goodbye, having decisively lost the presidential election this month, along with the Senate and the House of Representatives. (This was all accomplished while dramatically outspending Republicans.)

Think of the Democratic Party of today’s core beliefs and ask whether any part of them will be thought worth preserving. The pre-modern identity politics, the obscenely paid football stars who took a knee, the Women’s March attendees in their hats in the shape of the female genitalia, will we ever see them again? Will anyone miss the maddened Antifa mobs or the “mostly peaceful” riots? Whatever happened to the defund the police movement? Where are the diversity trainers and the lectures on unconscious bias? Remember Vice President Kamala Harris’ proposal for transgender surgeries for illegal aliens in our prisons? There were so many great ideas, just a few short years ago, and now they are permanently consigned to the dustbin of history.

The Democrats have become the party of illiberalism. The idea that we should be judged as individuals and not as members of a race or sex was tossed out the window. Free speech rights were all very well and good when the Left was in the dissenter role, but not after it ascended to power. Then the dissenters were on the Right, and the Left became the censors. At one time a patriotic respect for our founding principles might have restrained some on the Left. Those principles constitute our identities as Americans, and that which is not liberal is not American. But for Democrats American patriotism was jettisoned when the Founders were revealed to be irredeemable racists.