Can Hate Speech Win?

In the Democrat presidential campaign, the candidate who is doing the best in recent weeks is Elizabeth Warren.  It seems that in the midst of all the other mistakes being made by her fellow candidates, Warren's dishonest claims to having Native American heritage and her cashing in on that phony claim is receding into distant memory.  Instead, Warren's harsh rhetoric directed towards anyone who is successful in American society is bearing fruit.  Warren is pushing the politics of envy and rage.  There's no idea of shared sacrifice for the good of the country with Warren. No, Liz pushes the notion that anyone who has been successful has to be punished with extremely high taxes and social handicaps.  Warren's angry vision is a land where all are equal:  equally poor, equally limited in their freedoms, and equally miserable.  Warren talks about government programs to give free stuff to people (which, you can be certain, will not be free.)  Paying for the program, however, will require the enactment of confiscatory taxes.  Warren wants to strip the wealth of those who have been successful and use it mostly to make the government bigger and to give it more control over the lives of everyday people.  Warren is the primary purveyor of hatred toward the successful.

In the latest poll out today, Warren is now running second to Biden in Nevada.  That's the first poll in many months in which the top two candidates are not Biden and Sanders.  Just a few months back, Warren was lying wounded by the side of the road as people laughed at her phony claims of being and Indian.

It makes me wonder if Warren's version of hate speech will carry the day among the Democrats.  Certainly, there are enough angry Democrats to provide a big level of support if Warren can corral all of them.  It will be quite funny if the party that spends hours condemning everything as hate speech selects a candidate who is a primary purveyor of hate speech on the political scene.