Because most Republicans these days choose to support the leader of their party rather than kneecap him, a concept known until 2016 as “party politics,” Democrats and most of the national media have taken to describing the GOP as a new “cult of personality.”
That’s kind of ironic when you consider that all the Democratic Party seems to understand is personality. It’s why the Iowa caucuses were a complete wreck and why Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez is running around with what little hair he has ablaze.
It’s an underappreciated fact in politics that, even if elected Republicans can be complete dimwits, the Republican National Committee is an industrious machine that makes its Democratic counterpart look like a shanty without indoor plumbing.
The RNC consistently dwarfs the DNC in fundraising, which then translates to more staff in more states.
Perez acknowledged that in an email to supporters in August of last year. “The worst mistake we can make is to underestimate Trump and the RNC,” he said. “I can’t overstate this. They’re not waiting until next year to invest in 2020, and neither can we.”
Neither Democrats nor the media can seriously bemoan the “cult of personality” in the GOP without first addressing the cringe-inducing song and dance that Democratic voters keep trying to make happen for each of their 2020 candidates.
On Monday, a video surfaced of Joe Biden supporters singing Backstreet Boys’s “Everybody” but with Biden’s name in place of the original lyrics.
I’m on the fence about whether it was more or less uncomfortable to watch than the “High Hopes” dance made popular by Pete Buttigieg supporters and which BuzzFeed described as requiring “very little rhythm and no real athletic or dancing abilities.”
But it’s supposed to be self-deluded Trump voters who have fallen into a “cult of personality.”
The Democratic Party is right now driven by nothing but personality. Its problem is that its personalities are kind of lame.
