As any seasoned political veteran will tell you, “liberals may win the culture wars, but conservatives win elections.”
All in all, it is a trade that we should be happy to take. As annoying as constant protesting and complaining may be, protestors are by definition in the weaker position in society. In order to make America great again, conservatives must continue to make changes from the ballot box and the Senate seat, not the streets.
At the same time, we cannot allow liberal hyperpartisanism to light a fire under the silent rank and file liberals and swing vote centrists. The people who do not affiliate with either of the major two parties are becoming more numerous, and they have decided the outcome of many a state election in recent years. Depending on who you ask, it was the independent swinging away from the disastrous Hillary Clinton campaign that elected our current administration, not conservative support.
Buzzfeed recently noted that “the money is rolling in for liberal hyperpartisan sites” while decrying the effect that this new support for fringe liberals was having on the overall movement. When a staunchly liberal site starts to complain about getting more money, you can be sure there is hyperpartisanism at play.
However, this surge in leftist activism presents a unique opportunity for Republicans to continue winning the day with electoral and legislative victories.
Conservatives must not fall into the trap of thinking that we run the coop just because Trump is in charge. After all, the president’s popularity took a hard hit in the past two weeks alone.
Political pendulums swing, and getting caught up in an ideologically blind viewpoint will only have Republicans repeating the mistakes of 2008. Fox News was genuinely confused about the Obama victory, but anyone who had taken a holistic viewpoint of the landscape would have seen it coming.
Fortunately, Democrats made the same mistake in 2016. Hillary Clinton was a shoo-in, they thought. Everyone was preparing their new placards and corner office arrangements. However, anyone who had been paying attention to the independents and conservatives on the Internet knew exactly what was coming.
It is our turn to be shortsighted yet again, unless we learn from the mistakes of the past. We must use the weaknesses of the opposition party to extend the reach of the conservative narrative past the Trump administration.
The first step is to delve into the reasons why Buzzfeed would publicize an article about the frailty of the hyper liberal movement. Is it because they are looking to separate the liberal mainstream from their fringe element? Or is it because they truly believe that a better America will come from the far left, and they are sending a signal to their fractured constituents to maintain some sort of order?
Liberals have never been the most organized. Anyone who is complaining about more money definitely has too much time and not enough discipline on their hands. Popular hyper liberal sites like Addicting Info were not even able to sway the last election with fake news.
As more money comes in from disgruntled liberals, these unprincipled people are fighting each other to create the most sanctimonious, yellow journalism content possible, the truth be damned. This race to the bottom has former partners at each other’s throats, as in the case of US Uncut LLC v Clayton, et al.
It is time to begin pointing out the hypocrisy of the liberal movement to crush them for years to come. Why are no conservative sites reporting on the broken partnerships, tenuous money trails and false narratives of hyperpartisan liberal sites? Political wars are won and lost on the Internet these days, and framing the true position of these hyperpartisan sites for centrists and independents is the best way to ensure that conservatism continues forward after the Trump honeymoon has worn off.
Liberals are overreacting to Trump, and throwing money at their least organized, most unstable elements as a kneejerk reaction. If conservatives simultaneously fund our level headed, even keeled policy sharks, we can frame ourselves as the better choice for America far into the future. Let’s look into it.
Although Democrats are throwing money into the wrong places, be clear: They have plenty of it to throw around – enough to make their broken clock right in 8 years. We must help them on their way down, because they are just unorganized enough to screw up their demise as well.
~ Liberty Planet
