The Patriot Post® · Democrats Want You to Know They're Having an Existential Crisis at Their Convention
By Stacy Washington
Many of us know someone who is constantly in the midst of one “existential crisis” or another.
More often than not, their succession of crises and constant allusions to impending doom are a function of their own neuroses, as opposed to a level-headed assessment of their actual situation.
After days of watching the virtual Democratic National Convention, I’m convinced the Democratic Party has become an institutional version of that person. The entire event was one ceaseless parade of crises and perceived threats, each more grave and more “existential” than the last, and every last one of them somehow attributable to Donald Trump.
By my unscientific, back-of-the-napkin count, speakers mentioned a crisis or crises no fewer than 39 times during just the first three nights of the DNC. It’s important to note, however, that these are not mere run-of-the-mill crises. They’re “existential crises.” That is to say, the Democrats believe our very existence is at stake.
On the third night, we reached peak crisis mode. A young, bespectacled man from Arizona informed us, conclusively, that “there is one issue that is an existential threat to all of us, and it’s climate change.” Just three minutes later, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham one-upped him. “We have the chance this November to end two existential crises: the Trump presidency and the environmental annihilation he represents.”
It was outrageous enough that a sitting governor suggested the world might end if Donald Trump is reelected, but then it got really silly.
Teenage electro pop superstar Billie Eilish — an encyclopedia picture for “I think I’m having an existential crisis” with her hair in a neon-green reverse ombré — was on hand to tell viewers that “We have to vote like our lives depend on it … because they do.”
Did you catch that? Unless you elect Joe Biden, Billie Eilish — and unspecified others — are going to die! Do you understand now? Do you?!
None of this is to say that — especially with COVID and the economic havoc it has wrought — America does not face genuine crises today. That doesn’t excuse the Democrats for their hysteria, self-indulgent despair, and totemization of Donald Trump as — if we take them literally — the harbinger of the end of the world.
The real crises confronting this nation, including mass unemployment caused by a deadly pandemic, are at the very center of President Trump’s agenda. In the last quarter, America embarked upon the V-shaped recovery that will deliver the most rapid economic rebound in history, adding back over 9 million jobs and getting us on track to return to the historic prosperity we were enjoying before COVID.
The President is equally focused on addressing the very real crises that the DNC speakers steadfastly refuse to mention, such as the skyrocketing murder rates in American cities that correspond exactly with the civil unrest and anti-police radicalism that so many prominent Democrats proudly support. Attorney General Bill Barr’s historic Operation Legend has already resulted in the arrests of almost 1,500 of the country’s worst criminals — including 90 suspected murderers — helping to stop this crime wave from becoming an actual existential crisis.
The imaginary existential crises conjured up by the Democrats — “voter suppression,” “systemic police racism,” and a supposed plot to destroy the U.S. Postal Service — serve only to highlight another genuine one: the possibility that the Democratic Party’s hyperbolic, apocalyptic coalition might actually wind up in charge of this country.
Imagine your neurotic acquaintance staffing the White House or some powerful federal agency with the power to directly impact daily life. That’s exactly what the Democrats are offering, and it’s not a happy thought.
Stacy Washington is the Communications Director of Family Vision Media, co-chair of the Project 21 National Advisory Board and hosts Stacy on the Right Show on SiriusXM. She is an Emmy-nominated TV personality and serves as a Co-Chair of the Black Voices for Trump coalition advisory board.