Party Politics

At present, we seem to have a four party system in the United States.

Although Donald Trump is running as a Republican, he really represents something other than that Party's establishment. Trump's Party is the Party of Nihilistic Despair.





Then there is the Republican Party establishment, which is clearly at a loss as to what to do about the Trump insurgency. Trump may very well make them irrelevant this November.

The Democratic Party establishment has a presumptive head, Hillary Clinton. Over the past quarter of a century, Hillary has worked in tandem with her husband Bill to transform the Democratic Party into the Party of Cynical Opportunism. The Clintons bait the Plutocracy with Lefty talk and then sell them their support. This is their established pattern and I see no signs of it changing. One could also call the Clintonian Democratic Party the Party of Bait and Switch.

Finally, there is the party of Bernie Sanders: the Party of Desperate Hope. This is the Party that first emerged in 2008 and helped to elect Barack Obama--only to find his version of "hope" to be a variation of Clintonian "bait and switch."

The Party of Desperate Hope remains both desperate and hopeful. It is the Party of the Invisible Whitmanian Republic.