Biden's soulless screed
Last night, the same president who almost exactly a year ago disgracefully abandoned 14,000 Americans and tens of thousands of our allies to the Taliban decided to lecture the US on “the continued battle for the soul of the nation.”
Let that sink in for a moment or two.
In that speech, Joe Biden tried to take the high ground for democracy against authoritarianism — just a week or so after eviscerating the constitutional check on the presidency by claiming the executive branch has the authority to print and appropriate between $600 billion and one trillion dollars to transfer debt from Biden’s base voters to the rest of the taxpayers.
Let that one sink in for another moment or two. Especially after Biden described “the work of my presidency” as returning the US to the founding documents of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Joe Biden isn’t the solution for what ails the American soul. He’s not even really the main disease of what ails the American soul. Joe Biden is a demagogue who floated to the top of a morass that has been building for decades, and who only sees the problem to the extent that it benefits or harms Biden’s interests.
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Ahem. One can certainly believe this to be true of “MAGA Republicans.” What about the Democrats and progressives that rioted in the streets of Washington on January 20, 2017, in an attempt to disrupt the inauguration of Trump? How about the way that Democrats — even mainstream Democrats — labeled themselves “The Resistance” almost immediately after the 2016 election, which preceded that Inauguration Day riot and helped fuel it? And for that matter, what about the pointless two years of “Russian collusion” allegations that turned out to be based on Hillary Clinton’s oppo research?
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Without a doubt, the riot was awful and embarrassing. But we also had ongoing insurrections in American cities from Seattle to Washington DC, where armed militants seized entire city blocks and held them as “autonomous zones” where they claimed US authority didn’t exist. In Portland, left-wing domestic terrorists attacked the federal courthouse for weeks on end, if not months. In Minneapolis, where I lived at the time and which was the epicenter of these insurrections, armed mobs assaulted law-enforcement officers, burned out hundreds of businesses, looted thousands more, and created a lawlessness that still exists to this day.
Did Biden ever bother to lecture America on those insurrections, those assaults on police — not just in Minneapolis, but across the country? No; instead, he played footsie with the significant number of “defund the police” nihilists in his own party, including a number of Democrats in Congress. His defenders insist now that Biden never endorsed “defund the police,” but he’s never rebuked his party for their own anti-law-enforcement rhetoric, and certainly not in the way Biden did last night when aiming his demagoguery soooo conveniently at his political opposition.
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Biden and the Democrats are people who see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear and disregard the real world they have created or tolerated. They ignore the violence of the left and amplify Jan 6 while pretending that it was a "threat to democracy."
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