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As regular readers of my column know, I’m no fan of Donald Trump. And that
’s putting it mildly.
I don’t like his chronic dishonesty. I don’t like narcissism. I don’t
like his nastiness and his silly name-calling. I detest his need to
constantly cause chaos, as he did with a recent tweet suggesting we should
postpone the 2020 presidential election. There’s nothing about this man’s
character that I like.
And I hope he wins re-election in a landslide.
Actually what I mean is that I hope the Republican candidate beats the
Democratic candidate. And I wish the Republican candidate were almost
anybody else. But since “almost anybody else” isn’t running, I hope Joe
Biden loses more than I’m actively rooting for Donald Trump to win. If that
’s akin to a distinction without a difference … so be it.
It amazes me that in a country of more than 300 million people Donald Trump
and Joe Biden are the best we can come up with. If we picked two candidates
out of the crowd at a Star Wars convention we wouldn’t be worse off.
It’s not exactly a bulletin that Joe Biden is a puppet candidate. I don’t
think he has a clue as to what he stands for. His political team puts words
in his mouth and on a good day he repeats them without forgetting what he’s
talking about. Be assured that if Biden wins, Bernie Sanders and AOC will
be running the show.
Biden says that if he wins he’ll be one of the most progressive presidents
in U.S. history. And Bernie Sanders says Biden would be the most progressive
president since FDR.
So let’s take a look at what that progressive future might mean.
For two months we’ve been witnessing chaos and destruction in Portland and
other cities run by progressive Democrats, yet no one in the Democratic
Party will stand up and condemn the violence as if they really mean it. They
’re cowards who fear a backlash from the hard left wing of the party. Stand
up against rioters and the progressives will find a primary opponent to run
against you.
This is a party my father, a lifelong Democrat, wouldn’t recognize. He was
a blue- collar worker who could never support today’s Democrats. They bear
no resemblance to John F. Kennedy or Hubert Humphrey or Jimmy Carter or Bill
Clinton or even Barack Obama, who was a mere liberal when he was president
but now — if his partisan remarks at the funeral of John Lewis is any
indication — has become a passionate progressive apparently believing that
passionate progressive polices are what his party needs to win in November.
Today’s Democrats think the police are the enemy, not the rioters, who they
like to call “mostly peaceful protestors.” Some Democrats have called law
enforcement officers “storm troopers” and “secret agents.” When Donald
Trump sent federal agents to Portland to stop the rioters from burning down
the federal courthouse, the mayor of the city and the governor of Oregon
were angry with the president – not the anarchists!
This is a party that invited Attorney General William Barr to a
congressional hearing but wouldn’t let him respond to their non-stop
onslaught of attacks. They accused him of corruption, of perjury of
violating his oath and of betraying the Constitution. And when he tried to
respond, they constantly interrupted to say, “I reclaim my time.”
In plain English that means we get to talk and call you names and you’re
expected to shut up and take it. If that happened on the street, someone
would wind up with a bloody nose.
As Andrew McCarthy put it in an essay in National Review Online: “What
happened on Capitol Hill was a debacle to despair over because Democrats do
not act this way because they are preternaturally rude. They act this way
because their voters expect and demand that they act this way.
“It is not hard to understand, even if it is hard to accept. Democrats do
not merely disagree with Donald Trump. They abhor him. Their supporters and
media friends so loathe him that each ‘hearing,’ each issue, becomes a
contest of who can be the most indecorous and contemptuous. Who among us can
spew the most bile?”
He’s right. It’s not only Democrats in Congress who give their party a
bad name. It’s also the Democrats who cheer for their “I reclaim my time”
tactics. If Hillary Clinton were a Republican (or simply even-handed) she
might call them “deplorable.” And she might be right. | i******0
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