Briefly Noted: What Do Dems Think They're Up To With Their January 6 Event Commission?

Here’s my best guess. 

As a practical matter you can roughly divide Dems into two groups:

1. Those who think they can conduct a Watergate Redux, and

2. Movement radicals who are probably inspired more by something along the lines of the Stalin show trials and a mobilization of the masses.

Both are delusional.

The older group, whose political experience remains shaped by Watergate, think they can somehow relive those glory days. The days when they framed—with the help of the MSM—not only a Republican president for piddling misdeeds (if any), but tarred the entire Republican party with the same set of brushes, leading to what they thought would be a permanent majority party status. This, they thought, would be the full restoration of the New Deal, but on steroids, and they brought to this expectation the usual leftist sense of historical and moral entitlement. Thus the unrestrained rage at any Republicans who shattered their illusions (beginning with Reagan)—as well as the demographics responsible for shattered illusions. Interestingly, the demographics of hatred are largely the same now as they were in the Reagan years. Some things don’t change.

The basic Dem idea, as I see it, is to create a wave of revulsion a la Watergate against Republican “insurrectionism”. The Dems will try to wrap their commission in the mantle of supposed American values: diversity, hatred for white supremacy, and so on. The things the left talks about in their metro strongholds.

That’s not going to happen this time around. For the following reasons:

1. Younger people either don’t remember or don’t care about Watergate, and are now learning the hard way what a trainwreck liberalism brings. The failures of the current regime, now coming home to roost, will increasingly threaten and destroy their hopes and dreams. For themselves and their children. The anger directed against tyrannical radical school boards is likely just the beginning of a backlash from a generation that has never experienced social and economic disruption at this level.

2. Seniors, on the other hand, know from experience that Watergate is shrouded in Dem mythology and has no particular relevance to their lives, and they too see the trainwreck of liberalism. Sloganeering, waving the “bloody flag” of Watergate (or, now, the slogans of CRT, BLM, etc.)—as a political tactic all this long ago began to experience the law of diminishing returns. Seniors are looking for politicians who share their values and concerns, not utopian fantasies. More traditional Dems, to whom seniors felt some loyalty, have now been overtaken by the crazies. Seniors don’t want to live the rest of their days amid social chaos and turmoil.

3. Neither of these two groups any longer rely on the MSM for their hard news. Even seniors are increasingly turning to the new media. The vaunted influence of the MSM reveals itself to be now largely pushing on a string, figuratively speaking. The Left Media still has its hardcore followers, but it’s a distinct minority. Witness the way a Joe Rogan can snub his nose at polite Left opinion.

4. The result is that the attempt to turn the January 6 Event into Watergate Redux is doomed to failure. Too many people across the country—in common with international election observers—recognize the fraudulent nature of Election 2020. Poll after poll has shown this, and the pathetic performance of the Zhou regime—including an almost palpable hostility to normal people and their lives—has done nothing to diminish that view.

5. Moreover, unlike the Watergate days when the actors in the staged drama were far away and were people we only knew from television or the leftist newspapers, people now have a sense that they know these people. The new media has stripped the politicians of their aura of greatness and public service, leaving them exposed as small and venal, mean spirited and often ignorant. Just as importantly, the majority of Americans see in the vast January 6 crowd people not too different from themselves. Those are people with whom they can identify, even when they may disagree with them—which is something they can no longer do when it comes to the elite ruling class. The attempts at censorship and thought control have fallen flat and the perpetrators are overwhelming despised. The Dem Old Guard are living in a past that most of the country has moved beyond.

6. Finally, the movement radicals who are now the Dem base, espouse a radical utopian socialism that fails to resonate with the most of the country. The profound problems facing America—the fall from Greatness, whether in military, economic, or political vision terms—are too palpable, too close to home for Americans, by and large, to buy into utopianism. These problems are identified as brought on by the Dems. The issues that matter now to most Americans are precisely those that the Dems have made a hash of with utopian policies: Open borders, rampant crime, dysfunctional ideologically driven schools, social breakdown generally but with all the social controls imposed through mostly Dem politicians. These are the things Americans will be thinking about between now and Election 2022, and no amount of propagandizing by the MSM will divert Americans focus from the failures of an imposed regime to a fraudulent narrative about a mostly peaceful demonstration against a political establishment with which few Americans truly identify.

7. Hovering over all this as the final guarantee that Americans will largely ignore the false January 6 “insurrection” narrative is the specter of: Inflation. Seniors remember—and fear—the days of stagflation. Younger people are beginning to experience that for the first time in their lives. They know whom to blame.

8. There is a wild card, of a political nature, that could operate at the margins of public opinion or could galvanize a significant number in combination with the factors outlined above: The John Durham Russia Hoax investigation. Some might argue that the Durham investigation will be cynically discounted as just more politics by most Americans. However, depending on how bad things get—socially and, especially, economically—a successful portrayal of America’s problems as arising in great measure from an elitist Leftist coup that debauched our elections, led by an impossible to like harridan, could provide a narrative within which to frame the anger at all the rest of our problems. That narrative will reverse Watergate.