Just because you’re black doesn’t make you a radical

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Republicans make much about what they are calling “Trump derangement syndrome,” an alleged obsession among Democrats with impeaching Trump that is continuing to push the Democratic party farther to the left.

This idea that Democrats have somehow become as radical on the left as Republicans have moved to the right has always bothered me. I wonder what it is that Democrats are advocating that is so radical? Remember that the radical Obamacare legislation was a policy that had originally been proposed by Republicans opposed to the Clinton health care initiative, and then was implemented in Massachusetts by a Republican Governor. You may have heard of him… that radical Mitt Romney.

But yet Republicans, whose great legislative accomplishment was a tax giveaway to the very rich that will explode the deficit passed with almost no hearings, equate their legislative approach to that taken by President Obama with healthcare. Reminder, Obamacare had 79 full legislative hearings prior to its passage.

So just what is it about the Democratic party that Republicans think make it so radical. I would submit that it is the Democrats’ propensity to nominate candidates who are not white males.

Consider Barack Obama. In 2008, the left coalesced quickly around him with an expectation that he would…