Old Donks

Monica Showalter talks about the Democrats' aging and shrinking field of socialists whom they can shove to the front:

Like the old gray men of the Kremlin, the Democratic Party is led by gerontocrats. Like their socialist counterparts from that bygone era in the 1980s, they just don't want to leave. Nancy Pelosi's recent insistence on staying, despite her obvious health failings, is but one example, and there are others. According to Mike Allen's Axios, the top three Democrats in the House leadership are all near 80 years old. And it extends to the Democrats who'd like to unseat President Trump in the next election.

The gerontocratic phenomenon suggests that with Obama gone, Democrats have entered a picture of late-stage socialism.

There is an old Soviet joke about this issue, descriptive in a story about the great Siberian railroad. When the train traveling on it broke down in the middle of nowhere, its engineer at the helm, Vladimir Lenin, ordered everyone on it to get out from the train and push. When the train broke down again, Joe Stalin was at the helm and ordered the NKVD to shoot half and tell the other half they'll be shot too if they don't push. The train broke down again under Khrushchev, and this time, saboteurs wrecked the tracks. Khrushchev ordered the passengers to take the tracks from the back of the train and move them to the front. The train broke down again under gerontocratic Leonid Brezhnev. He ordered the passengers to pull down the shades and bounce up and down to give the impression that the train was moving.

This really cuts to the heart of the matter: Hillary was their closer. She was gonna step onto the mound and cinch it for the socialists as they finally re-made the country into their long-awaited "utopia." Instead, she threw a game-losing grand slam, and Trump is now gleefully disassembling everything they've painstakingly put into place over the last three decades. So now the leftists are throwing tantrums and jumping up and down on the seats.