Democrats, going dictatorial edition

Dan Henninger's columns are always informative. Henninger's latest column is no exception. It's titled "'National Emergency’ and the Democrats’ Apocalyptic Politics."

The subject of this week's highlighting is today's Democrat Party's tactics. Henninger writes "For Democrats, politics has become showtime. On Tuesday, 17 House Democrats—including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib—staged a made-for-Instagram arrest outside the Supreme Court. Then the committee investigating the invasion of the Capitol by Trump supporters went prime time Thursday evening. The committee has created its own logo—“January 6th”—which looms on a gray screen above the committee."

This was done in the hope that Joe Biden will shift into 'Beast Mode' on abortion and climate change:

After Mr. Manchin withdrew his support for the climate legislation, citing opposition to new taxes and inflation, former Obama White House counselor John Podesta wrote the senator had "doomed humanity." Rhode Island’s Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to—where else?—Twitter to liberate himself from Congress: "Free at last. Let’s roll. Do it all and start it now," Mr. Whitehouse tweeted. "With legislative climate options now closed, it's now time for executive Beast Mode."

In this context, Beast Mode is essentially 'going dictatorial.' In this context, it doesn't matter if the American people hate the ideas that Democrats are shoving down our throats. The ends justify the means.

The post-2020 Democratic Party’s theory of politics appears to be: The system no longer works, so blow up the system by issuing presidential executive orders on climate, education, guns and abortion; ending the legislative filibuster; packing the Supreme Court; suppressing dissent as "misinformation"; and if necessary, redefining reality, such as the "1619 Project," which rewrote the country’s history.

Democrats don't have a grip on reality. Instead, they're willing to scream disinformation whenever they're challenged. If they lose, Democrats want to blow up the system. Constructive policies are infrequent. They're used to fascism. It's how they get things done these days. Threats and intimidation are part of the Democrats' toolbox:

Trump might've lost in 2020 but his Supreme Court nominees did what the Constitution required them to do. The justices overturned a ruling that should've never been ruled on. It should've been left to the political branches.

These tactics do produce publicity—such as Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s faux handcuffed pose Tuesday—but a problem remains: It isn’t sustainable. An article in the Washington Post this week reports that college-age Democrats are pushing away from politics, including this November’s elections, done in by the endless, insistent activist wheel-spinning.

That is the familiar result of displacing the unavoidably incremental progress of real politics with an antipolitics—street demos, constant moral denunciations, or threats of ostracism from the group for imagined offenses. Whatever else, keeping the apocalypse going is exhausting.

This November, people will reject the politics of threats and intimidation. They'll displace Democrats for a decade or more. Good riddance.