THE NYT IS SUBSTANTIALLY OWNED BY MEX BILLIONAIRE CARLOS SLIM. THE PAPER HAS BECOME A MOUTHPIECE OF LA RAZA SUPREMACY AND OPEN BORDERS AMNESTY
In response to election debacle, New York Times demands Democrats shift further to the right
The New York Times’ post-mortem on the Democratic Party’s election debacle on November 2 reached an entirely predictable conclusion: The Democrats must shift even further to the right.
In its editorial published on Friday, “Democrats Deny Political Reality at Their own Peril,” the Times editorial board calls the elections, particularly the defeat of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe in Virginia, “a political nightmare for the Democratic Party,” which “requires an honest conversation… about how to return to the moderate policies and values that fueled the blue-wave victories in 2018 and won Joe Biden the presidency in 2020.”
The Democrats, the Times writes, have been “looking left on so many priorities and so much messaging” and “have lost sight of what can unite the largest number of Americans.”
It adds, “A national Democratic Party that talks up progressive policies at the expense of bipartisan ideas, and that dwells on Donald Trump at the expense of forward-looking ideas, is at risk of becoming a marginal Democratic Party only appealing to the left.”
The newspaper writes further on that Biden “did not win the Democratic primary because he promised a progressive revolution,” citing approvingly the statement of Democratic Representative Abigail Spanberger: “Nobody elected him to be FDR. They elected him to be normal and stop the chaos.”
The claim that the Democratic Party since the election of Biden has been “talking up progressive policies” is absurd. The complaint of the Times centers on the administration’s so-called “Build Back Better” social spending and climate legislation. “The concerns,” the Times writes, “of more centrist Americans about a rush to spend taxpayer money, a rush to grow the government, should not be dismissed.”
In fact, the “Build Back Better” legislation has been progressively whittled away to virtually nothing, with all elements not directly related to the interests of the corporations, including the expansion of the pool of cheap labor, systematically removed. In particular, in the course of orchestrated “negotiations” with right-wing congressional Democrats, any measures to tax the rich, which polls show are overwhelmingly popular, have been eliminated.
The Times seizes on the Virginia elections to demand that the legislation be further gutted. In response, the Democrats delayed voting on the bill on Friday, instead moving to pass a separate bipartisan infrastructure bill, endorsed by big business, on its own, as had been demanded by right-wing Democrats such as senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
Under conditions of a massive social crisis, a pandemic that has killed more than one million people in the US, growing concern among workers over the soaring cost of consumer goods, anger over decades of escalating social inequality, and widespread disillusionment with both political parties, the Times concludes… the Democrats are too eager to “grow the government.”
As for the assertion that the Democrats have been “dwelling on Donald Trump” since the inauguration of Biden in January, the opposite is the case. The Democrats have worked to cover up the significance of Trump’s fascistic coup attempt of January 6, and Biden has made a hallmark of his administration the maintenance of a “strong” Republican Party, as he proclaimed immediately after his inauguration.
The implication of the Times editorial is that any remaining investigations into the role of Trump and his co-conspirators in the Republican Party in the effort to overturn the elections and the Constitution should be scrapped—in the name of looking forward.
The fundamental deceit of the Times editorial, however, is what it leaves out entirely. The right-wing politics of the Democratic Party are connected to its relentless promotion of racial and identity politics, targeted to privileged sections of the upper middle class. It is this political strategy, bound up with the class character of the Democratic Party, that suffered a shipwreck on November 2.
The Times itself has played the leading role in promoting the politics of racial conflict, particularly through its “1619 Project.” In a meeting with the newspaper’s staff on August 12, 2019, Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet explicitly stated that “race and understanding of race should be a part of how we cover the American story… [R]ace in the next year is going to be a huge part of the American story.”
That is, the Times, speaking for the Democratic Party, would work to place race at the center of American politics. The “1619 Project,” unveiled two days later, is dedicated to the falsification of American history, presenting it as a history of unending racial conflict, in which black Americans have waged a solitary fight for democracy against white racism.
What are the issues that preoccupied the Democratic Party prior to Tuesday’s elections?
Last month, the Democrats in New York City removed a statue of Thomas Jefferson from City Hall, on the grounds that it “symbolizes the disgusting and racist basis on which America was founded.” The Times, in its own account of the decision, declared the statue’s removal “part of a broad, nationwide reckoning over racial inequality.”
As the World Socialist Web Site anticipated, the racialist attack on the American Revolution and the Civil War has been a gift to the Republicans and the far right. One year ago, commenting on the factional warfare within the Times over the “1619 Project,” we wrote :
Working class Americans, black as well as white, draw inspiration from the great and ineradicable achievements of the two American revolutions. They believe human equality is a principle to be fought for and made real, not a “founding myth,” as the Times sneered. The lynch-mob style attacks on statues of Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln and Grant, encouraged on Twitter by Hannah-Jones, anger and disgust them. Worse, the clear connection of these attacks to the “1619 Project” has allowed Trump and his fascist supporters to posture as custodians of the democratic heritage of the American Revolution and the Civil War.
McAuliffe, a stalwart of the Democratic Party establishment, deployed this strategy in Virginia, focusing the final days of his campaign on demands for fewer white teachers in classrooms, as if this has anything to do with the crisis of public education in Virginia and throughout the country.
Another major campaign prior to the November elections was the Democrats’ successful effort to remove its own governor in New York, Andrew Cuomo, on the basis a fraudulent sex scandal. The Times, again, played the essential role in soliciting and promoting a campaign that utilized a manufactured scandal to settle scores within the Democratic Party, while elevating issues of sex and gender, another cornerstone of the politics of the upper middle class.
All of this has absolutely nothing to do with the interests of broad sections of workers, of any race or gender. The election in Virginia and defeats suffered by the Democratic Party throughout the country are the product.
As predictable as the utilization of the debacle in Virginia to justify the repudiation of even a pretense of social reform is the campaign to blame the Democrats’ defeat on the supposed inherent racism of white workers.
Times columnist Charles Blow, in his own comment on the Virginia election (“White Racial Anxiety Strikes Again”) concludes that “Youngkin [the Republican winner] successfully activated and unleashed white racial anxiety.” The blame for the Democrats’ debacle lies not with the right-wing policies of the Democrats themselves, he argues, but with white workers: “You could argue that the Democrats made missteps in Virginia. Absolutely. But, to win, Democrats also needed to tamp down white people’s fears, which is like playing Whac-a-Mole.”
Comments from Democratic Party-aligned figures on social media were even more explicit. “This country simply loves white supremacy,” declared Jemele Hill, a contributing writer for The Atlantic. “White women voters are the footsoldiers of white supremacist patriarchy,” proclaimed Mona Eltahawy, founder of the newsletter Feminist Giant, in response to polls showing that a majority of white women voted for Youngkin.
Such people are a million miles from the working class. Never mind that polls show the dominant issue motivating voters in Virginia was the economic situation, with voters who said the economy was not good or poor voting largely for Youngkin.
No, the failure to elect Democrats is, according to the apologists for the Democratic Party, a product of “white racial anxiety.”
The working class is not moving to the right, nor is it motivated by racial animus. The defeat of the Democrats coincides with a growing strike movement throughout the United States, including the ongoing strike of more than 10,000 workers at John Deere in Iowa, Illinois and other US states. Deere workers, many of whom are white, voted the same day as McAuliffe’s defeat to reject a UAW-backed contract, the latest in a series of defeats of union-supported agreements, including the rejection of three contracts by Volvo Trucks workers in the state of Virginia earlier this year.
The elections also coincide with the ongoing catastrophe produced by the ruling class response to the pandemic, which has killed more than one million people in the US alone. The Democrats, no less than the Republicans, are determined to end all restrictions on the spread of the virus, which continues to kill more than 1,100 people in the US every day.
McAuliffe expressed the indifference of the entire political establishment to mass death when he misstated the level of death in his state from COVID-19 by 10,000, asserting that “4,000 Virginians” had died, when the real toll, according to official figures, is more than 14,000.
The interests of workers find no expression in any faction of the political establishment, whether the increasingly fascistic politics of the Republicans or the race-obsessed politics of the Democrats. As the Democratic Party contemplates its “political nightmare” and shifts further to the right, a wave of class struggle is coming crashing down on its head.
Onward Together has raised about $965,000 since 2017. That's nearly equivalent to what it would have cost a Wall Street firm to hire Hillary Clinton to give five hour-long speeches before Donald Trump ended her political career.
Special Report: The Hillary Clinton Problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WywjHtIzNVU
WILL GRIFTER, CHARITY FOUNDATION HUCKSTER AND SOCIOPATH LAWYER HILLARY CLINTON MURDER JULIAN ASSANGE?
SHE WANTS HIM DEAD! HIS PROXIMITY TO THE TRUTH THAT COULD PUT CLINTON IN PRISON IS A SERIOUS THREAT.
“If the Constitution did not forbid cruel and unusual punishment, the sentence I would like to see imposed would place both Bill and Hillary Clinton in the same 8-by-12 cell.” ROBERT ARVAY – AMERICAN THINKER com
Obama’s Democratic Party administration launched a furious salvo of denunciations, with then Vice President Joe Biden calling Assange a “high-tech terrorist” and Hilary Clinton reportedly asking, “Can’t we just drone this guy?” This opened the floodgates to a torrent of demands from Republicans and the right-wing media for his assassination.
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S BILLIONAIRES’ GLOBALIST EMPIRE requires someone as ruthlessly dishonest as Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama to be puppet dictators.
http://hillaryclinton-whitecollarcriminal.blogspot.com/2018/09/google-rigged-it-so-illegals-would-vote.html
Globalism: Google VP Kent Walker insists that despite its repeated rejection by electorates around the world, “globalization” is an “incredible force for good.”
Hillary Clinton’s Democratic party: An executive nearly broke down crying because of the candidate’s loss. Not a single executive expressed anything but dismay at her defeat.
Immigration: Maintaining liberal immigration in the U.S is the policy that Google’s executives discussed the most.
FASHION ALERT: Hillary Clinton’s PAC
Selling Pantsuit Onesies To Raise Money
Onward Together, the political action committee Hillary Clinton founded after her humiliating 2016 loss to Donald Trump, is raising money by selling "pantsuit onesies" for infants, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
The Hillary Pantsuit Onesie is one of several ridiculous products for sale on the PAC's website but is the only one that exclusively targets #Resistance millennials with mental health problems. Others who wish to support Hillary's efforts to "resist bullying, hate, falsehoods, and divisiveness" can do so by purchasing items such as "The 🔥 Tweets Greeting Cards," which are also available as a sticker pack.
The "But Her Emails Enamel Pin" is another cute memento for individuals who, like Hillary herself, have never gotten over the fact that she lost in 2016 and would never even consider the possibility that she was an extremely unlikable candidate and is probably the only person on the planet capable of losing to Donald Trump.
On Friday, the failed politician announced the addition of several new products to the Onward Together shop. While supplies last, prospective donors can purchase T-shirts and tote bags featuring a "vintage, but cute" image of Hillary in high school. The accompanying text—"Rodham" in all caps—could raise questions about her relationship with nominal husband Bill Clinton, the disgraced former president of the United States. Perhaps it's a signal that Hillary, who recently vowed to "never" leave the game of politics, is planning to reenter the arena.
Hillary announced the new products on Instagram, which drew mixed reactions from users of the social media website. "Always Hillary 👏 ," wrote user jaynekeatts. "#StillWithHer," added user barettabelieves. Some of the comments weren't so positive. User mosealong_, for example, responded with 45 barf emojis. User kentskaleidoscope was similarly disgusted, writing, "YOU BELONG IN JAIL !!!!!"
Onward Together has raised about $965,000 since 2017. That's nearly equivalent to what it would have cost a Wall Street firm to hire Hillary Clinton to give five hour-long speeches before Donald Trump ended her political career.
THERE'S ALWAYS A PACK OF PARASITE LAWYERS FEEDING ON IT!
They paid a foreign national, a Trump hater, over $10 million to create a dossier full of pure lies. They funneled the money through Democrat operatives at a private law firm.
Our mostly complicit, compliant, sycophant press has no concern about facts, only Democrat power
What happened to Donald Trump in 2016 and beyond dwarfed Watergate. Most of the media not only didn't care about the corruption of the Democrats, but they were also major participants in seeking to destroy a candidate, and later, president, they didn't like.
Special Counsel John Durham has started to hit paydirt with three arrests so far, the tip of the iceberg, and the story is essentially buried because the media doesn't care, and they don't want the public to know the truth. If the public learns the truth, they will see how dishonest, corrupt, and dangerous the media is. They will set out to destroy anyone they don't want in elective office. The truth and evidence are never necessary when they are campaigning for Democrats.
The basic story of the 2016 election is that the corrupt, criminal, unlikable Hillary and the DNC couldn't run on their record or unpopular leftist Democrat policies, so they needed to destroy Trump. They clearly couldn't dig up enough truthful dirt, so they set out to create pure fiction. They paid a foreign national, a Trump hater, over $10 million to create a dossier full of pure lies. They funneled the money through Democrat operatives at a private law firm. They committed fraud when they signed documents to the FEC saying these payments were for legal fees. No one at the Hillary campaign or DNC was punished for the fraud because no one cared. They were also supporting Hillary. The swamp is deep.
Then these lies were spread throughout the media and throughout the corrupt Obama-Biden administration to destroy Trump and his associates. The lies were obvious, yet no one cared. All they cared about was electing and protecting Hillary.
Dishonest people working at the FBI used these fictitious documents in lies to the FISA court as they set out to spy on and entrap anyone associated with Trump.
These same agents protected the career criminal Hillary from prosecution no matter how many laws she violated and how many pieces of information she destroyed to obstruct justice. The media didn't care.
For years, the Democrats, including Reps. Schiff and Nadler set out to destroy Trump with endless investigations based on fictitious documents. The media participated in targeting Trump with no evidence. They needed to destroy him because they didn't like his policies.
Schiff, Swalwell, Clapper, Brennan and others went on compliant media outlets to spread lies about Trump being a Russia agent.
The corruption and dishonesty of the media has been clear for decades. Here are some things they haven't cared about or have lied about as they campaigned for Democrats and set out to destroy their political opponents.
Didn’t care about how many women the Clintons physically and mentally abused. People who we are told respect women called them bimbos and trailer trash. The women were disposable as the media, entertainers, and other Democrats campaigned for Bill.
Didn’t care about Bill committing perjury and causing a young subordinate to commit perjury and obstruct justice. Monica was disposable.
Didn’t care how many trips Bill took with known pedophile Epstein. The young girls were disposable if the Clintons wanted power. How many women and young girls were sexually abused by powerful men because so many were campaigning for the Clintons?
Didn’t vet Obama, or care that he associated with radical leftists such as Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers. They also didn’t care about Biden’s record as they sought to destroy McCain and Palin. All that mattered was electing Obama.
Didn’t care about all the lies used to pass Obamacare, nor did they care that Pelosi wouldn’t let members of Congress, the media or the public see it before it was voted on. All the media cared about was the agenda.
Didn’t care about separation of powers when Obama illegally bypassed Congress to pay for shortfalls in Obamacare.
Didn’t care when Obama and Holder obstructed justice for years on Fast and Furious.
Didn’t care when Holder or others in the Obama committed perjury before Congress. They were above the law.
Didn’t care when the corrupt, politicized IRS illegally targeted political opponents of Obama, destroyed computers and documents and lied to Congress. The politicized, corrupt Justice Department decided that the swamp creatures at IRS were above the law. Political opponents of Obama and constitutional rights were disposable.
Didn’t care when the corrupt Justice Department, EPA, and CFPB shook down corporations and set up slush funds to give kickbacks to Obama supporters. Laws and ethics were disposable.
Didn’t care when Obama and Hillary didn’t lift a finger to help people under attack by terrorists in Benghazi. Instead, they concocted a lie about a video causing the attack because the truth might have jeopardized their power in the coming election. They even sent Susan Rice out to five networks to intentionally lie. Now this known liar is high up in the Biden administration.
Didn’t care that people continually lied through the media to get the Iran deal done. Ben Rhoades bragged about how gullible and helpful the media was in perpetuating the lies.
Didn’t care that Obama sent $1.8 billion in unmarked bills to the tyrants in Iran to bribe them.
Didn’t care that Obama dictatorially ordered the politicized, corrupt Justice Department to drop a multiyear, multi department investigation into a billion-dollar drug running operation by terrorists to appease the tyrants in Iran. They were above the law. Obama’s legacy was more important.
Don’t care how many people were killed by drugs and terrorism because Obama cared more about his legacy. The Americans who died were disposable.
Don’t care that the corrupt, politicized, Justice Department was so busy campaigning for Hillary and seeking to destroy Trump that they didn’t care how many laws Hillary and her aides broke, didn’t care how many computers and documents they destroyed, didn’t care how much they obstructed justice, and didn’t care how much they lied. They were above the law because they wanted Hillary to defeat Trump.
Don’t care that Comey, McCabe, Schiff, Brennan, Clapper and others intentionally lied about Trump and Russia for years. They still trot them out when they want to trash Trump.
Willingly participated in spreading the “Hands up Don’t Shoot” lie after Ferguson to gin up racial hate against white cops. They don’t care how many cops were injured or killed by these intentional lies. The cops were disposable.
Participated in the intentional lies as they sought to destroy white Christian boys for the crime of wearing MAGA hats. The young boys were disposable.
Participated as they sought to destroy Judge Kavanaugh with no evidence. It is astonishing and deplorable how many people the media is willing to destroy to push the leftist agenda.
Never cared about the Biden family corruption. Even buried the truthful story about the Hunter Biden laptop to protect Biden before the election. They still don’t care about all the kickbacks to the Biden’s no matter how much evidence there is.
Instead of caring about the Biden family corruption, the media and other Democrats sought to destroy and impeach Trump for wanting to investigate the corruption -- which should be his job.
Don’t care about sanctuary cities and states and the Biden administration refusing to enforce immigration laws they swore to uphold.
Don’t care about how much Fauci, WHO and others have lied or got wrong or about the Wuhan lab and gain of function research. The children’s financial, physical, and mental health were disposable as schools were unnecessarily closed.
Don’t care about natural immunity as they are willing to fire anyone who dares disagree with the dictatorial mandates to get shots. Those people who get fired are disposable.
Don’t care about how well Florida is doing compared to the rest of the country without mask or vaccine mandates.
Don’t care about all the states where election laws were intentionally violated in the 2020 election. Instead, they pretend that there is nothing to question. They had no concerns when the 2016 election was challenged, and Trump was called an illegitimate President for four years. Instead, they participated in the big lie. They don’t care about voter integrity as they claim requiring a photo ID to vote is racist.
They participate in continuing to call an unarmed protest on January 6 an armed insurrection to intentionally mislead the public.
They don’t care about the only person killed by a weapon on January 6. An unarmed veteran woman shot by a Capitol cop. Ashli Babbitt was disposable.
They not only don’t care that CRT is taught throughout the U.S. They lie about it as they regurgitate the terms, white supremacy, white privilege, and systemic racism to gin up racial hate and division. They do this while they pretend that they are for unifying the country.
They have never cared about evidence to support the radical climate change agenda to destroy America. They don’t care that all the dire predictions have been 100% wrong for decades. All they care about is the agenda.
And they certainly don’t care what is in all the slush funds the Democrats are seeking to pass and how they are paid for. They don’t care that Pelosi is trying to get them passed before they are read and before they are scored by the CBO. They campaign for these bills, sight unseen, because facts don’t matter and haven’t for a long time.
I am sure others can think of many other things that the media doesn’t care about.
What should we call the press who cares more about who they elect and an agenda than the truth? What should we call people who are willing to destroy anyone who gets in the way of the left’s quest for power? Wouldn’t enemies of the people be an appropriate term? Calling these people progressive is certainly mislabeling.
Graphic credit: Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images
Clinton Operative Linked to Steele Dossier Did Not Disclose Work for Russia to Justice Department
Charles Dolan's involvement in the dossier saga flips Democrats' allegations of Russian collusion on their head
The Clinton operative who provided information for the infamous Steele dossier worked for years for the Russian government and its state-owned gas giant Gazprom, though his activities are not disclosed in foreign agent filings with the Department of Justice.
Charles Dolan, a longtime Democratic operative and public-relations maven, worked as a senior consultant for the Russian government from 2006 to 2014 and in 2016 had extensive contacts with high-level Russian officials, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday by Special Counsel John Durham. Dolan in 2016 also fed information to Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst who served as the primary source for Christopher Steele, a former British spy who investigated Donald Trump on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. During the years he worked for Russia, Dolan was not registered with the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, according to a review of government records.
Dolan's involvement in the dossier saga flips Democrats' allegations of Trump-Russia collusion on their head. Democrats have long accused the Trump campaign of having illicit ties to Russia. Special Counsel John Durham on Thursday indicted Danchenko for lying to the FBI about his contacts with Dolan. Danchenko had denied that Dolan provided any information to him that made its way to Steele. The FBI relied heavily on Steele's since-discredited dossier for its investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The indictment lists Dolan's extensive work for the Clintons and says he took part in events and calls as a volunteer for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. It does not identify Dolan by name, but his attorneys confirmed that he is the person referenced in the indictment as "PR Executive 1." Dolan is a partner at public relations firm kglobal. He is also on the board of directors of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, a nonprofit group that says it "advances democracy for a better future."
The Justice Department requires individuals who work on behalf of foreign governments to disclose their influence activities. Other filings submitted by Ketchum Inc., the firm where Dolan worked through 2014, show that the company had extensive contacts with U.S. media outlets during the course of its work for Russia. Dolan is listed in two filings submitted by Ketchum. Those show that in 2012 he received $157,000 to cover out-of-pocket expenses. Dozens of other employees at Ketchum are registered as foreign agents of Russia and Gazprom during the same period.
While Dolan was not widely known before he surfaced in the Durham investigation, he has extensive contacts in Washington. He was photographed with then-vice president Joe Biden in February 2014, while he was still working for Russia.
According to the indictment, Dolan provided Danchenko information about former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort that ended up in the dossier. Danchenko had asked Dolan to share any "thought, allegation, or rumor" about Manafort. Dolan told Danchenko that a Republican friend of his had shared insights about turmoil regarding Manafort within the Trump campaign. The information would later appear in one of the memos from the Steele dossier. Dolan told the FBI that he lied to Danchenko about speaking with a Republican friend about Manafort.
Dolan was also involved in perhaps the most controversial allegation in the dossier. According to the indictment, Dolan and an associate spoke with staff members of the Ritz Carlton in Moscow about Donald Trump's stay there years earlier. The dossier alleges that the Russian government has video footage of Trump with prostitutes at the hotel. But according to the indictment, Dolan said that none of the hotel staff members to whom he spoke mentioned any sexual activity.
The indictment also reveals that an official at the Brookings Institution, a prominent liberal think tank, introduced Danchenko to Dolan around a decade ago. Steele in 2017 told the FBI that Brookings senior fellow Fiona Hill introduced him to Danchenko around 2011, according to documents declassified last year. Hill is not identified by name in the indictment, but documents released last year by the government identify her as the person who introduced Danchenko to Steele. Hill served as the Russia expert for the National Security Council during the Trump administration.
It is unclear whether Durham asked Dolan about his work for Russia or his failure to register as a foreign agent. Dolan and his lawyer did not respond to requests for comment.
In 2022, the Democrats Biggest Enemy is Voter Revulsion
Democrats haven’t grasped this yet, but it’s too late for them. The die is cast. An electoral bloodbath awaits next year, akin to or surpassing what happened to their party in 2010.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s and the Squad’s anti-American leftist politics drive their party, and that’s beginning to register at a gut-level with voters. What voters – critically, that big, pivotal segment known as independents – now feel is revulsion for Democrats in not just one way but many. The intensity of that revulsion is bound to grow in the coming months.
How do we know that? In the first 10 months of the Biden presidency, we went from a functioning country recovering from needless Covid lockdowns to a nation suddenly skidding downhill. Do we believe that we haven’t seen the worst of Biden’s inept governance and congressional Democrat incompetence, extremism, and corruption? 2021 will only prove a prelude.
Democrats are ensnared in hubris, and have boxed themselves into corners. Ideological corners. Policy corners. Governance corners. Interest group corners. Cultural corners. Integrity and corruption corners. An unabated lust for power dominates their appetites.
Starting on January 20 – shortly after Biden was sworn in and began robotically signing executive orders – voters witnessed failure after failure, with energy costs and inflation climbing; supply chains bogging down; an evaporating southern border and floods of illegals; needless defeat and retreat in Afghanistan; a draconian vax mandate; urban homicides and crime exploding; cancel culture employed as a threat and cudgel; boondoggle spending and proposals by a Democrat Congress; parents branded “domestic terrorists” by the U.S. attorney general; and, as Thomas Lifson pointed out, the spreading realization that Democrats hid Biden in his Delaware basement in 2020 because he really is decrepit and daft.
The moderation and bringing Americans together trope that Biden mouthed was a come-on, part of a confidence racket to persuade suburbanites – particularly suburban women – that there’d be no significant departures from Trump’s generally solid policies and governance – except his handling of Covid, which, claimed Biden’s ventriloquists, Trump failed to defeat. Biden averred that he’d shepherd the country out of the “dark winter” of Covid back into the light.
Instead, Biden and Democrats pimped fear and have diligently tried to force compliance with mask and vax mandates – after Biden publicly foreswore both. Reality and science were eschewed – the latter twisted and subordinated to serve Democrats’ political ends. Natural immunity is given short shrift, if at all. Biden made unquestioning obedience and threats of job loss and ostracization cornerstones of his Covid policy – a policy his administration is still pressing stubbornly.
In reaction, tens of thousands of Americans are quitting or boycotting their jobs, further putting strains on systems – including healthcare and public safety – and the economy.
With each passing day, “battling” Covid for public health’s sake appears for what it is: a shabby pretext. Democrats’ impulse – on full display – is authoritarianism on the way to modern totalitarianism… something akin to China’s evil social credit system is gestating. Citizens are seeing this and viscerally rejecting this decidedly anti-American gambit.
The election contests were close in Virginia and New Jersey, you say? Were Democrats really slapped down? The fact is that elections in blue-trending Virginia and deep blue New Jersey had no business being close.
In New Jersey, Phil Murphy’s bullying governance, his misfeasance in consigning Covid-sick seniors to nursing homes, resulting in the deaths of thousands of seniors, and shuttering his state’s economy made him damaged goods. If Murphy holds on to the governorship, it’s by the skin of his teeth – thanks to Democrat votes trickling in conveniently late.
Had Murphy governed closer to how sensible red state governors ran affairs would his job have been even remotely imperiled?
Terry McAuliffe’s missteps have been broadly publicized. Suffice it to say, McAuliffe assumed that his nomination was tantamount to election, failed to check his mouth, and, most tellingly, mulishly stuck by teachers’ unions and school boards in the face of mounting parent backlash to toxic Critical Race Theory and parent outrage at two sexual assaults at public schools. One by a boy in a skirt raping a girl in a school restroom. Initially, both assaults were denied by the Loudoun County school superintendent. The illusion of “gender fluidity” mattered more to the woke or cowed superintendent than the brutal reality of rape. Sane Virginians rebelled.
As Marley’s ghost was chained to his sins, Democrats – McAuliffe being the exemplar – are chained to special interests and militant “gimmie” voter blocs.
Finally, McAuliffe had no choice. Had he sided with Virginia parents over teachers’ unions and extremist school boards, he risked blowing up important parts of his coalition. So, he stayed true to his coalition and lost. Other Democrat candidates should take note, but won’t can’t. Expect more poison pill choices for Democrat candidates in other states next year.
For Democrats, 2022 will boil down to attempting damage control, up and down ballots. But there aren’t enough months in the year and hours in a day to execute a volte-face that persuades voters that Democrats aren’t who they’ve revealed themselves to be. The masks dropped this year, and voters in blue states in off-year elections responded with disgust. Then there’s the near-epic Biden incompetence and failure mentioned earlier that needs factoring in. Imagine the blowback coming in purplish and light red and blue jurisdictions next autumn?
Rest assured, Democrats and the left are implacable. While they’ve sown the seeds of their own destruction, they’re still a dangerous force, and patriots can’t let down their guards. In fact, efforts to defeat them must redouble.
Democrats and their coalition partners fought fiercely and cunningly in 2020 to wrest the presidency away from Donald Trump. As their fortunes become poorer, their desperation may drive them to extremes. For these cohorts, power isn’t just a means, it’s their god… it’s their alpha and omega.
What Americans want is what Democrats used to claim they wanted: a nation of true equality – equality of opportunity, not result (certainly not the theft called “equity”). Americans still believe in the ideal born with this republic that all of us should be weighed based on merit, not superficialities. Most citizens definitely reject being pitted against one another based on skin color, race, religion, national origin, and whatever else Marxist-steeped Democrats can leverage or concoct to divide and conquer.
What Americans desire is what Virginia voters have chosen. This January, sworn into the commonwealth’s highest offices, will be a white man, black woman, and Hispanic man. All Republicans, no less. What do these three soon-to-be officeholders share in common? A vison of America where superficialities are dismissed and our common humanity is acknowledged… where we strive to achieve a common good... where we aim to live together peacefully and productively as Americans.
We know this won’t ever be accomplished perfectly, but we aspire to do it well, thereby bequeathing to the next generation of citizens a better country.
Equality and a common good are emphatically American ideals, and darn worth working toward in this and every generation to come. The other – the division and conflict peddled by Democrats – is worth no more than our revulsion.
Photo credit: Biden speaks after the G20 summit (edited by Andrea Widburg in befunky). YouTube screen grab.
J. Robert Smith can be found regularly at Gab @JRobertSmith and occasionally on Parler, again @JRobertSmith. He also blogs at Flyover.
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