These are dark times for the Tranzi Progressive Movement. Their beloved Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian (National) Socialist paradise of Venezuela is in trouble. Latin America, after the victory of Resistance forces in Honduras, is shifting to the Right. Their allies in Iran are despised by the people and anti-government protests are a regular occurrence there. The European Union is having major economic issues and has to bail out the Progressive regime of Greece. An ABC News-Washington Post poll has the GOP up 48-45 in Congressional races. Their world is collapsing and I couldn’t be more pleased.

Good politicians, like Ike and JFK (and yes, our Bill Clinton), use the landscape around them to shape coalitions that sustain them in power. Great politicians, like Reagan and Franklin D. Roosevelt, refashion the landscape, creating realignments that survive them by decades.

Obama, by contrast, has done something different: He first formed, and then shredded, his own coalition, creating wedge issues that splintered his party, with no help from opponents at all.

In the wake of the collapse of the health care endeavor, rancor has bloomed on all sides. The Associated Press writes of “Democrat-vs.-Democrat anger” in all sorts of venues. Politico mentions “signs of strain” between Harry Reid and the White House, and notes that relations between Democrats in the House and the Senate hover between disdain and hostility.

Read the rest: Noemie Emery: Democrats inflicting themselves with wedge issues

As has always been the case in history, Progressives tend to turn on each other. Whether it was Napoleon turning on the Jacobins, Hitler on Stalin or Mao on Khrushchev, their ego’s lead to treachery. The Progressive regime in Washington is now in self destruction mode. We must keep up the pressure and attacks. They are breaking and now we must press our advantage home!