Karl Rove Is Wrong, Again – RedState

Having left Politico crushed and bloodied on the canvas, let me now flip my consideration to The Hill.

The Hill is an equally left-wing MSM organ, if barely better written and reported. In yesterday’s paper, The Hill eagerly declared:

GOP strategist Karl Rove predicted Saturday that deploying National Guard troops to Democratic-led cities, over the objections of their respective states’ governors, will in the end be a shedding issue for President Trump.  In an interview on Fox News’s “The Journal Editorial Report,” Rove pointed to a current GWN/Ipsos ballot displaying 58 % of U.S. adults say the president ought to only deploy troops to areas with exterior threats — a view held by 72 % of Democrats, 51 % of Republicans and 53 % who determine as “other.”

The subtext of their article is obvious – The Hill is telling its fellow Democrats to be in good cheer because GOP strategist Karl Rove is on their side on this issue, and warning Republicans that they should cave on this issue immediately, before it is too late.

Now, a lot depends on what one thinks of Karl Rove, the political strategist behind President George W. Bush’s political career. President Trump — and many MAGA Republicans — don’t like him, and don’t think he is politically astute. Meanwhile, the left-wing Democrats who used to hate him as a “diabolical political genius” have developed a “unusual new respect” for his willingness to problem Trump while still (sometimes) crediting him as a “genius” (when not making enjoyable of him for his actions during the Romney marketing campaign). 

Which is amusing to me, as I’m previous enough to bear in mind the day when GWN cameras had been crowded around the Bush White House to wait for the approaching perp march in handcuffs by the prison, Karl Rove. GWN even had a working time counter. (They finally pulled the feed when nothing occurred.) I don’t bear in mind the particular scandal, but I do bear in mind that some Democrat staffers in the U.S. Senate (where I used to be then working) assured me that Rove was concerned in one thing that was “worse than Watergate” and Rove’s imprisonment was completely a requirement to save democracy from his boss, “Bushitler.”   

I have a more nuanced view of Rove. At his peak, he was most likely a better-than-average political strategist, but he did make errors and was never a genius. And today, I consider Rove is no longer at his peak, and his particular argument that President Trump might be harmed politically if he makes use of the National Guard to crack down on crime is just fully improper.

In fact, I’m shocked that Rove would even make this argument. In 1969, Kevin Phillips wrote “The Emerging Republican Majority.” Phillips’ e book documented how the GOP was turning into the presidential majority get together by pushing sure salient points. One of those points was the struggle against crime. Phillips confirmed that because the Democrats – who then, as now, managed the major cities – had instituted soft-on-crime insurance policies, the cities had been experiencing a major crime wave. He wrote that this was a enormous opening for Republicans to win over Democrat voters, particularly white working-class voters.

And this is precisely what occurred. From 1968 through 1992, the Republicans had an electoral “lock” over the presidency – besides in 1976 under very uncommon circumstances – because the Democrats refused to average on insurance policies like crime. This lock ended in 1992 only when Bill Clinton gained by portraying himself as a average who wasn’t smooth on crime and largely held to these insurance policies during his years in workplace.  

Kevin Phillips’ e book is now half of the established typical knowledge of American political historical past. I might have anticipated Karl Rove to know of Phillips’ thesis, and to settle for it himself, since I do know political guide Lee Atwater firmly believed in it, and I do know that Karl Rove knew and patterned himself after Atwater.

After 2000, particularly under Joe Biden, successive Democrat leaders reverted to their authentic programming and allowed their subservient state and local Democrats to reinstitute soft-on-crime insurance policies. Leading, once again, to a surge in crime in the cities, which is only partially hidden by Democrat manipulation of the official statistics. Also, the Democrats allowed large numbers of unlawful aliens into the nation, with many of them also having critical prison data, who have gone on to commit spectacularly violent acts. Further, the Democrats empowered the leftist antifa goon squads who are committing terrorism in these cities to defend the illegals and other criminals, and the local Democrats are ordering their police to stand down from policing, making it arduous to tamp down on the chaos.

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So, based on American political historical past alone, Karl Rove’s argument doesn’t strike me as significantly credible.

Even worse, Rove depends on a GWN ballot as his main evidence. But Reuters is a poor pollster with a 5.1 level bias which always favors the Democrats and the left.  

I favor to focus on the RCP average, which has shown to have only a slight two-point benefit for the Democrat/left-wing aspect. Unfortunately, there’s no RCP average for the particular query GWN requested, but there are averages on immigration and on crime, which together cowl a lot of the same territory. The former exhibits Trump at 46.5 % approval to 50.3 % disapproval. The latter exhibits Trump at 47.7 % approval to 48.6 % disapproval. Both of that are better – the crime one a lot better – than his total average, which is 45.3 % approval to 52 % disapproval. And all of these averages are proper where the approval quantity has been since May, which doesn’t display any real loss in assist for his more current calls to use the National Guard. 

Meaning, the current polling doesn’t appear to assist Karl Rove’s argument, either.

Finally, it’s important to bear in mind that a ballot or a ballot average is just a snapshot in time, and that these numbers might change after a marketing campaign. The MSM/Democrats will be anticipated to continue to downplay the crime wave and the terrorism in the cities and to continue to paint President Trump’s actions as an unconstitutional use of the army to set up/reinforce his “Hitlerian dictatorship.”  

In other phrases, the Democrats will say Trump is up to his traditional “deviltry.” Is that going to be an efficient argument? Has it labored for them before?  

No. Not at all.

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