I’m not a political scientist but as an honorary old man I have the benefit of a long memory, something that some political scientists can’t claim simply because they haven’t walked on this Earth that long. And with that long memory comes the ability to see BS, what was, and what might come to be.
The first observation is that Joe Biden’s presidency is already done. A new president would usually have their term in office peek out around the 1st midterm election or if they were really good, maybe the first year of their second term. Obviously, that hasn’t been the case with Joe Biden. I’m going to mark the end of the Biden presidency at August as Afghanistan crumbled. A lot of people have already forgotten the profound horror of how bad that was for integrity of the United States, internally, internationally, and on behalf of tens of thousands Afghan civilians that assisted us over the past 20 years and we abandoned to brutal death. Sure, afterwards came record inflation, deep legislative failures, and colossal missteps in Biden’s handling of Covid, but those were just heaps of foul icing on a deflated cake. Joe Biden’s presidency is dead, and yet still searching for a yet deeper bottom.
The other figure in this equation is Donald Trump. Trump as of January six, 2021, was declared deader than dead politically. The outrage over the storming of the capitol, in a lot of people’s minds, carved out a place for him that was beyond the scope of any failed president in US history, except a great deal of what we were presented at the time wasn’t even true. In the interim between now and then, we’ve learned a great deal more about the events of those days and you don’t have to be a consumer of just conservative media to know, begrudgingly for many, that the grand story presented on that day was full of holes, omissions, and lies screamed from mass media outlets. These in fact are masking a conspiracy far more audacious than the one that was pinned on Donald Trump. Stay tuned as the real story continues to filter up through the media block-aid. Donald Trump was a victim of January 6th not a perpetrator. Traditionally, in the aftermath of a presidency, the former executive goes into retirement and stays quiet. That pattern was changed with Barack Obama who has meddled behind the scenes ever since he left office and in fact was the guiding hand behind a lot of misfortunes directed at Donald Trump. As an aside, I’ve made the observation before, that Obama is in his fourth term. First the designated two terms in elected office, marked at the end by his sanctioning and abetting Hillary’s criminal interference in the 2016 election. His third term consisted of actively undermined Trumps elected time in office via Russia-gate and an army of Obama loyalist lodged deep in the bureaucratic swamp poisoning many of his initiatives. Presently, as Obama is intimately engaged with Biden’s presidency via proxies filling the Whitehouse.
In the aftermath of January 6th, Donald Trump stayed relatively quiet, non-committal, and watched as Biden’s presidency crashed and burned. Donald Trump’s traditional former-president status ended sometime around August 2021 just about the point where Biden’s presidential honeymoon and marriage so to speak, ended abruptly. This did not escape the notice of pundits in the mainstream medium. Since then, Donald Trump is being made into and spoken of as an active threat to ‘democracy’ which is really code for the burning hulk of Democrat aspirations which began with the inauguration of Joe Biden. Such a short flight it was.
There are two kinds of threads or talking points now regularly directed at Donald Trump. The first one is from the blue-anon types, the CNN and MSNBC loving crazies that believe that Donald Trump is going to come back on a white horse and destroy democracy. This is augmented even within the Biden government by his people in the military that seem to be hotly pursuing a self-fulfilling prophecy in the making of a future insurrection within the military or even a civil war. If they can’t find it, they sure as hell are going to make one a-la January 6. That says a great deal more about the far-left Democrats and the Biden administration then it says about Donald Trump or any of those that follow him.
The other thread I see are people who represent ostensibly conservative media, who take side jabs at Donald Trump, with a bad case of amnesia. They deal in a level of unreality that I find very curious, taking easy digs at him, almost implying some sort of equivalency between his presidency and Joe Biden’s. It usually goes something like this: ‘Joe Biden did such-and-such, almost as if he were acting like Trump’.
So faux conservatives, I get it, Donald Trump is easy to hate. I totally understand that you don’t like the mean things that he said and when he insulted people with a juvenile taint to it. I get it that somebody who eats his steaks well done and smothers them ketchup and washes it down with a Coke is reprehensible. I totally get it, but let’s not confuse words for action or feelings for substance which is what you Lincoln-Project-esque pseudo-conservatives seem to do. I also know there are still plenty of RINOs roaming around the Republican sheep fold. I hear the Lincoln Project is calling to have you renew your membership there.
So let me count the ways that Trump’s presidency is in stark contrast to the Biden failure oh smug faux conservative critics. Can you imagine Biden successfully executing Operation Warp Speed which brought us the vaccines? I don’t think so, not when he’s struggling to make basic distribution of Covid test which were already in existence, a reality. Maybe you’re perfectly fine with vaccine mandates to force the no-good unwashed un-vaxed to think about everyone else instead of being so selfish and along with that maybe you’re okay with the most wide scale disenfranchisement of a group in this country since slavery. Even if you’re a die-hard believer in vaxes, maybe it wouldn’t be too hard to imagine that a carrot might have been more effective than a stick or really a club…with nails, after all, we now have a lot of data to prove how well the stick didn’t work.
Maybe you guys had something against energy independence, but I can’t imagine what it would be and I’m glad that you’re happy paying that extra buck and a half for your fuel now. You’ll be even happy waiting for the wind to power the windmill to charge up your EV.
Maybe you’re perfectly happy that we now have troops out of Afghanistan, I actually happened to be for that myself but could any serious person doubt the Trump would have done it differently as he was the one who started the initiative to begin with? Is there any serious person that wasn’t dumbfounded with the gross incompetence of how Biden managed it out of sheer reckless, mindless ego against the council of his military staff?
As I recall we didn’t have a border crisis when Trump was in office, and we certainly have one now. Wasn’t it Biden who systematically dismantled everything that Trump did on the border out of pure spite and now he’s being forced, one measure at a time to reinstate those measures?
Maybe you’re still in the crowd that believes inflation was transitory, or a result of the Covid lockdowns. Funny, I seem to recall the goods and services were flowing pretty well back in the fall of 2020; that was after the initial Covid surges and during the middle of the second surge. Opening a fire hydrant of free printed money and spraying it all over the country couldn’t have been a reason for inflation, could it? (You may have to go back to your college Economics 101 to freshen up on the whys and wherefores here). It was all in the name of Covid, that most handy Great Reset tool. Or how about an infrastructure bill for which only about 1/6 actually goes to infrastructure (someday – eventually), the rest being payoffs to loyal constituents. Truth be told I’m seeing a lot more luxury cars on the road nowadays and I wonder why.
How about this week’s news that Biden was declared the least accessible President in American history? You progressive journalist can appreciate that.
Maybe those of you that were cognizant in the 70s and 80s can appreciate that Biden is now rated lower than Jimmy Carter in handling the economy. Let that sink into your soft mushy skull. I actually remember those bad-ol days which is where that memory thing comes in handy.
How about for sheer joy and goodwill, Biden just promised us a “winter of illness and death”. Don’t say he over-promises and under-delivers.
I present this partial list for all the faux conservative fools that want to take cheap swipes and make false equivalencies between Biden and Trump. I scratch my head and wonder what medication you guys are taking.
Simply because you hated Trump so badly, you’re even now still not 100% sure if Biden is a liability to this country and if it comes to the next election, it’ll still be anyone but Trump. There’s something else at work here beside basic cognitive function. What gene controls delusion? What home hearth nurturing, or Sunday School, or public school for that matter, taught us that pursuing Venezuela like social and economic policies was preferable to somebody saying something mean?
These observations are not meant as an early endorsement of Trump for president in 2024. It’s much too soon to endorse anyone particularly when there are no declared alternatives to consider, and when Trump has made no declaration to run. I’ll ultimately endorse the most viable candidate for conservatism. If that’s Trump, just as with my personal endorsement for Trump in 2020, when he showed himself to be the most qualified leader needed to advance a conservative agenda, that I’d certainly endorse him again. In the meantime, some of you are going to have to figure out what side you’re even on.