Liberalism will get unleashed and will fail again

Published January 8, 2021 4:00am ET



The events of the first week of 2021 have been monumental setbacks for conservatives and Republicans.

First, Democrats won both the runoff Senate races in Georgia, a formerly solid-red state. They won not by running centrist old-Southern Democrats like the highly-respected former Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn. The senators-elect from Georgia, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, ran as hardcore leftists — promoting more government, government-run healthcare, free money, higher taxes, and soaking the rich. They are, to put a spin on Winston Churchill’s famous yarn: wolves in wolves’ clothing. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren will have new comrades.

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