Complicit in the Biden cover-up, the lying Democrats have lost all credibility
They didn’t soulfully consider Joe Biden’s marked decline and decide, for the good of him, his party and the country, that he had to step down.
They lied, and they got caught.
The Democratic Party line on President Biden was that he had turned in an exceptionally effective State of the Union address. He might mess up a name here or there, but he had gotten better with age.
He should be judged on his achievements, which rivaled those of LBJ. Anything suggesting he was in decline was a paranoid lie, or — in a truly ridiculous neologism — “a cheap fake.”
Everything we saw with our own eyes was misleading. No, he hadn’t wandered off at the G-7 summit. No, he hadn’t frozen up at his Hollywood fundraiser.
No, everything was fine.
No one formally enforced this party line, but everyone knew to follow it — Democratic leaders, journalists and donors.
The whispered conversations stayed whispered.
Then the debate happened, and before it had ended, the party line was inoperative.
There were attempts to revive it, but it was a little like being a Communist in the 1930s when Stalin wrenched the party into a totally new position.
It didn’t matter whether the new had any connection to the prior line; it had to be followed.
So Joe Scarborough of MSNBC, who months earlier had issued forth with table-thumping assurances that Joe Biden was at the absolute top of his game, suddenly thought he might have to step aside.
George Clooney, who co-hosted the aforementioned Hollywood fundraiser, wrote in the New York Times that Biden at that event was a shadow of his old self, and suddenly former Barack Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau could say that everyone he talked to at the event was appalled by Biden’s state.
The president can be forgiven for being disappointed and angry that everyone who had been covering for him switched overnight.
There’s no honor among thieves, but shouldn’t there be at least a little among political co-conspirators?
Biden showed monumentally poor judgment in deciding to run again last year. He almost certainly was in the grips of legitimate self-delusion, though.
His enablers were truly cynical and dishonest, hoping that their fake narrative about Biden’s continued vitality could see them through until November.
Their credibility should be shot as they attempt their great switcheroo.
‘Defenders of democracy’ staged a cover-up and coup
Opinion by David Harsanyi
Democrats love to brag about how they are defenders of “democracy.”
Which is odd, because 2024 will be the first presidential contest in modern history featuring a nominee who wasn’t chosen by voters.
Kamala Harris did not get a single vote in the primaries.
And the same cabal that propped up Joe Biden, that hid his ailments, that put the nation in a perilous position, that used him to push hard-left policies, that bypassed the electorate, now promises that Harris is the very best person for the job.
Why would anyone believe them?
Al Sharpton contends that Kamala’s candidacy is a “grassroots” movement. Which is laughable. She has never displayed impressive political instincts. There is, and has never been, any organic movement championing Kamala Harris.
Now her base is Democratic Party elites.
Recall that Kamala couldn’t even make it to the Iowa caucuses in the 2020 Democratic Party primaries, as her campaign went broke and disintegrated into bickering factions before it even really got started.
What has Kamala done as vice president? I can’t think of a single accomplishment.
Democrats are now forced to create a fake primary that approximates a legitimate “process” so they can argue Kamala’s ascension is democratic.
see also Top Dems threatened to forcibly remove Biden from office unless he resigned, set him up to fail at Trump debate: SourcesIt is not. If there was a normal, open contest in 2024, Kamala would likely have faced a half a dozen accomplished governors, and almost surely lost.
So, this backroom nomination creates a lot of questions. For instance, will Kamala really be running the country, or do we have another Biden on our hands?
The Wall Street Journal reports that congressional leaders were worried about Biden’s mental state back in 2021. Democrats covered it up.
One person who knew the president was unable to perform even the most rudimentary tasks, incidentally, was Kamala Harris.
If Harris was a patriot, she would have done something about it. If Biden was a “patriot,” as so many Democrats now contend, he would have gotten out of the race months ago and allowed a credible candidate to emerge.
But the president didn’t step aside, he was bullied out of the race after the left’s gaslighting efforts about his mental acuity failed.
Only then did Democratic elites begin applying massive pressure on Biden to leave the race — among them big money donors, who stopped writing the president’s campaign checks.
Democrats love to scaremonger about the corrosive power of money in politics. Have big donors ever had a greater say in picking a major party’s nominee?
None of this is exactly new. Recall that the entire left-wing establishment, including the media, let Biden campaign from his home in 2020 to help him beat socialist Bernie Sanders.
see also Kamala Harris is not your wacky aunt, she’s more dangerous than BidenIn 2024, the Democratic National Committee changed the party’s nominating calendar and put South Carolina first in line, overturning decades of tradition, to ensure that Biden avoided any inconvenient challenges — even though most elected officials knew about his diminishing mental state.
Once in power, the “moderate” Biden spent trillions on the left-wing grab-bag “inflation reduction” bill, even when economists warned the spending would spark inflation.
Biden rolled back numerous border enforcement measures, despite being warned the country would be flooded by illegal immigrants.
Biden dropped a moderate abortion stance and supported the procedure on demand without any limit.
Biden coddled the Islamic regime in Iran and sold Israel out on numerous occasions.
That’s just a taste. These policies had Barack Obama written all over them.
Now, Kamala owes the same people, not voters, her political future.
Like Biden, Kamala will be a useful proxy for those who propped up her candidacy and perhaps her presidency.
Maybe Democrats have no other choice. But please don’t tell me this is “democracy.”
David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Twitter @davidharsanyi
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