Jack Davis, the multimillionaire businessman running here in western New York to unseat one of the most powerful Republicans in Congress, makes his fellow Democrats a little nervous.
This behavior, apparently, makes Democratic party hacks nervous. As well they should be; the potential success of Davis' candidacy points to a larger victory for populist conservative politics. To the extent that the Democrats are in the game in the red states at all this year, it's largely because they're running right of center candidates in a number of races.Mr. Davis is prone to overstatement. He has warned about “Red China,” for example, and suggested he would take a bat to anyone who sent his sons sexually explicit e-mail messages like those a congressman sent to young male pages.
He defies liberal orthodoxies. He has said he wants to “seal” the nation’s borders and has held memberships in conservative groups like the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation.
We're seeing Democrats who love guns, who go to church, who want to kick Iran and North Korea where it hurts, who want to play hardball with China. Democratic success in Congress may only lead to intra-party warfare between the rump blue-staters and old-line "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party," and their new conservative comrades.
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