In the left’s game of high-stakes blackjack, it’s time for the right to double down

Modern American politics abounds with talk of chess. People will tell you Democrats play chess and Republicans play checkers. Not to mention all the discussion of the three-, four-, even five-dimensional chess games reportedly going on at any one time.

But in watching the situation of the so-called “Tennessee Three” play out, I’m inclined to think the left’s game of choice is actually blackjack.

Blackjack is a simple casino game and is popular because it gives you the best odds of winning, upwards of 40 percent depending on house rules. One strategy in blackjack is to bet the minimum amount. If you win, you pocket the money and bet the minimum amount again. But if you lose, you double your bet on the next hand. Because blackjack typically pays 1:1, if you win a hand at double the amount of the one you lost, you recoup your original losses.

Political Blackjack

This blackjack strategy is increasingly analogous to the way the left does politics in America today. Consider recent events in Tennessee. The left’s transgender agenda was on the back foot in Tennessee after the legislature took action to curtail the surgical and chemical castration of children. Considering their tremendous gains over the past decade, leftists might have viewed it as a small setback. Still, they lost.

Then the traumatic and awful Covenant School shooting gave them an opportunity to double their bet, and they gruesomely took advantage. To grab the narrative spotlight, three Democrat legislators — Justin Jones of Nashville, Justin Pearson of Memphis, and Gloria Johnson of Knoxville — helped orchestrate an insurrection at the Capitol, flooding the building with protesters and seizing the rostrum with the use of a bullhorn.

Tennessee Republicans, with their legislative supermajority, did not cave. Instead, they chastised the three Democrats for blatantly and undemocratically violating legislative rules, and they voted to expel Pearson and Jones. Johnson escaped expulsion by one vote because she had not used the decorum-violating bullhorn.

The left had doubled down and lost even more. On social media, the right celebrated the state GOP’s backbone and appeared energized by the success. The left could not allow this to stand.

So, leftists escalated again. The national corporate media, such as “Good Morning America,” feted the Tennessee Three. The left began to call for donations to flood into Tennessee Democrats. Former President Barack Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris praised the protest on social media, and President Joe Biden invited the three troublemaking Democrats to the White House.

And now the Nashville Metro Council, the local government of the area Jones represents, voted to reappoint him as an interim representative to fill his own vacated seat. Jones marched back into the Capitol at the head of a protest of about a thousand people and was sworn back into office in time for roll call.

Before he returned, the Tennessee Republican Party issued a statement saying they would “welcome back” any reinstated legislators. Jones responded by telling House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, to resign and calling him “an enemy of democracy.”

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