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http://www.wsj.com/articles/steal-this-election-1481759796" Steal This Election "
" Abbie Hoffman wrote ‘Steal This Book.’ Democrats are doing the 2016 update. "
By DANIEL HENNINGER
" A serious person might ask: Why did John Podesta, the Democratic Party, and various of its media affiliates head into the fever swamps after Donald Trump won the election?
We knew months ago that the Trump phenomenon could drive women mad and make grown men weep, but how to explain the adoption of a Tom Clancy conspiracy, to wit: Vladimir Putin, using hacker slaves in a Kremlin basement, stole the election for Mr. Trump? Therefore let’s sequester the 538 folks from the Electoral College in a safe house for a CIA briefing before they vote to validate the results of the 2016 election.
Several explanations press into view, the simplest being . . . embarrassment.
Mr. Podesta and his associates lost the election, or at least the one that has been deciding U.S. presidential results since George Washington carried the Electoral College vote in 1789. (Gen. Washington got 69 votes, John Adams 34.)
This year’s loss happened in large part because the Hillary campaign ignored Bill Clinton’s advice to pursue the blue-collar vote that won him the presidency. The Clinton campaign thought Barack Obama’s “coalition of the ascendant” would win a third straight time. Staring out across the U.S. political map today, they look now like the coalition of the descendant.
Little surprise that the people responsible for this debacle are filling the skies with Putin-elected-Trump flak to divert eyes from why they lost states they should have won.
Another, more plausible explanation would be the belief among Democrats that the Trump victory is a temporary political bubble.
Mr. Trump won by gaining the support of les deplorables who formerly voted Democrat or who had stopped voting altogether after losing faith in the system. That is a thin, volatile presidential base.
If President Trump doesn’t deliver prosperity that satisfies these new voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, they’ll abandon the Trump Republicans. Then, like Silly Putty, the Democrats’ Blue Wall of electoral-vote states will reform in 2020.
At the moment, Mr. Trump is doing one-offs to animate the base, such as pistol-whipping Carrier and Rexnord. His more durable strategy is dropping the corporate tax rate to 15% and liberating capital investment across all economic sectors, something the Trump business troika—Rex Tillerson,Steven Mnuchin and Gary Cohn—knows has more carry than, well, Carrier.
If Mr. Trump consolidates his election support with material progress, Republicans could have a governing coalition for many election cycles. One of the election’s most intriguing footnotes is that Mr. Trump increased support among blacks and Hispanics over the 2012 result by 2% each. That wasn’t supposed to happen. It will happen again if this president delivers to these marginalized Americans what Barack Obama only promised.
So yes, the losers in 2016 have an incentive to jam the possibility of a successful Trump presidency. Still, one has to ask: Why this? Why are the Democrats resorting to the goofball gambit of asking Electoral College electors to steal the election for Hillary Clinton?
The answer is because that’s how this wing of the Democratic Party does politics. The progressive Democratic demonstrators that filled Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower after they lost is the same party wing that rioted in 1968 in Chicago outside their own party’s convention.
Among the leaders of the Democratic street politicians back then was Abbie Hoffman—activist, radical, marketing genius.
For Democrats of that generation—which is the Podesta and Hillary and Bernie generation—Abbie Hoffman was their Michael Moore. Abbie summed up his view of politics with a book titled, “Steal This Book.” Many did.
Now Michael Moore is exhorting thousands of bereaved and angry Democrats to descend on Washington next month to “disrupt the Inauguration.”
All I can say is: Do it!
Something in the post-1968 Democratic genetic code is always on the brink of tipping into anarchy.
Most American voters become uncomfortable when they see an Abbie Hoffman or Michael Moore cavorting in the streets with the country’s politics. Almost always, voters make Democrats pay a price for conducting politics by extra-political means.
After the 1968 Democratic convention, many Democrats believed the party had to move forcefully left, just as Elizabeth Warren,Bernie Sanders,Keith Ellison and various comedians are urging the party to do now.
In 1972, the party nominated Sen. George McGovern, a man of the left. Sen. McGovern got 17 electoral votes. Richard Nixon got the rest.
Shrewd Democrats then found their way to a strategy of nominating Southern governors no one had heard of, such as Jimmy Carter in 1976. He won, barely.
In 1984, Democrats reverted to a progressive liberal, Sen. Walter Mondale, who got 13 electoral votes.
In 1992 they returned to a centrist-seeming Southern governor, Bill Clinton, and won.
Today, the effort to “delegitimize Trump”—with Electoral College conspiracy theories and “disrupt the Inauguration”—sounds like something from antic Abbie Hoffman’s “Steal This Book.”
The streets—and the political wilderness—await. "
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