Why the Left Will
Cut Biden Loose
Democrats will soon find no further reason to cover for Joe Biden’s own serial abhorrent personal behavior on matters of financial probity, sex, race, and truthfulness.
By: Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
June 22, 2022
Republican pundits and conservative activists are debating whether they can win in 2024 with the successful Trump agenda, but without the controversial Donald Trump as their nominee.
The Democrats have a similar, but far more serious dilemma with Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s nominee in 2024.
Unlike the Trump Administration’s successful four years, Biden’s tenure has been an utter disaster. There are no policy offsets to the personal liabilities and unpopularity of Biden himself.
Biden’s liabilities transcend his physical infirmities, his advanced age, and his seeming geometric rather than arithmetic rate of mental decline.
Biden, moreover, proves daily that he is not a nice guy. His excesses, past and present, are precisely those the Left considers mortal sins.
Walking back Biden’s absurdities has become the nonstop, tiresome task of many on the Left. As they face a midterm disaster in November, many no longer see any compensating reasons not to drop Biden.
When the Republicans take the House of Representatives in 2022 there will be nonstop investigations of Hunter Biden’s alleged tax avoidances, his possibly illegal work as an unregistered foreign agent, and Joe Biden’s untaxed compensation he received from the Biden lobbying consortium.
Consider also Biden’s nastiness.
During the 2020 campaign, he personally attacked a young co-ed as a “lying dog-faced pony soldier” and a stocky questioner was reduced to “fat.”
Unlike Trump’s art of the deal, exaggerations, and distortions, Biden says things that are not simply untrue, but abjectly preposterous—such as the United States currently has a lower inflation rate than major European industrial powers.
In Biden’s world, there were no COVID vaccinations until he took the oath of office. Vladimir Putin, or the oil companies, or the refiners, or Donald Trump are responsible for the historic crippling gasoline price hikes he caused by canceling drilling and pipeline projects.
Biden claims his negative-growth, hyperinflating economy is not disastrous but strong.
He serially lies that he drove a semi-truck. He has not been to the Middle East 38 times. He never received an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy. Nor was he a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
The MAGA movement is not the “most extreme political organization in American history.”
In other words, Joe Biden reveals the same fantasies and plagiarism that ended his 1988 and 2008 presidential campaigns.
On matters of race and sexuality, Biden is the epitome of that for which the Left, supposedly, has zero-tolerance. Biden was infamous for damning with praise candidate Barack Obama as the first “clean” and “articulate” African American presidential candidate.
In a fake patois, Biden once warned an audience of black professionals that Mitt Romney would “put y’all back in chains.”
During the 2020 campaign, candidate Biden derided a black journalist as a “junkie” and lambasted a radio host and his audience with the claim “you ain’t black” if they didn’t support his candidacy.
Spinning racialist fables like Biden’s “Corn Pop” stories would brand any conservative politician as a racist. As president, Biden still uses the term “negro,” and he called an African American advisor “boy.”
On disturbing matters of sexuality, Biden is even more coarse.
After the Justice Brett Kavanaugh hearings, the nation was lectured that “women must be believed.” But it was the Left who attacked former Biden aide Tara Reade who surfaced in 2016 to accuse then-Senator Biden, her former boss, of sexually assaulting her.
Biden himself had a creepy history of invading the private space of young women—inappropriately kissing them, hugging and squeezing them, and smelling and blowing into their hair and ears.
Finally, Biden was forced to apologize—sort of—by claiming he belonged to an earlier generation when such aggression was simply normal behavior. It was not then or now.
The latest controversies whirl around the British tabloid Daily Mail’s publication of the diary of Biden’s daughter.
From the Mail’s lurid reporting, Ashley Biden seems to suggest that she showered with her father at an age when “showers w/ my dad (probably [were] not appropriate).” And she seemed to connect Biden’s familial inappropriateness with her regret over being “hyper-sexualized [at] a young age.”
When Donald Trump was accused by porn star Stormy Daniels of a consensual tryst or was caught on old Access Hollywood tape crudely boasting about touching inappropriately female admirers, the resulting uproar nearly derailed the Trump 2016 campaign.
The point is not just the asymmetrical treatment that has shielded Biden’s cognitive decline, his rude outbursts, his outrageous racialist slurs, and bizarre sexual aggressiveness.
Instead, the Left now fears Biden’s terrible polls and a worse record—and the resulting damage he is doing to the Democratic Party.
In such a losing political context, Democrats will soon find no further reason to cover for Biden’s own serial abhorrent personal behavior on matters of financial probity, sex, race, and truthfulness.
No wonder they are growing desperate to find ways to cut him loose—without making Kamala Harris his successor.
The 2024 election will be a mess. While Pres Trump, IMO, did a good job as President, even in the last two years something was amiss as evidenced by the large turnover of competent advisers. No, I don’t think Mr Trump is the right guy for 2024. DeSantis seems to be the only option for Conservatives and he may not even run. Liberals need to replace two losers so maybe Machelle Obama, who would likely be very popular with the leftist voter.
Four much bigger issues bother me, however. I honestly believe that the culture in DC is so polluted and corrupt that no matter who is elected, politics will remain in the toilet. Our leadership has not acted in the country’s best interest for decades, with very, very few exceptions. It is all about individual egos, re-election, Party politics and remaining in power at all costs. The people and country be damned. Secondly, rather than investigating voter fraud in the last election and putting that issue to rest by either fixing it or proving it did not occur, the Left chose to ignore it. The result is folks like me continue to think that voter fraud was wide spread, thereby rendering the act of voting meaningless. By not investigating fraud and with absolutely no accountability, why would the voter think that it won’t happen again and again. Will a Conservative ever be elected again? Fraud worked so well, let’s do it again. The impact of fraud is earthshaking to our system. Stalin would concur. Thirdly, the voter. Again, IMHO, I think the average voter in America is as ignorant as a stone. Note, I did not say stupid. Part of the reason and I understand, life is complicated with families needing two jobs to live a middle class lifestyle, the huge demand of kids, and life in general, today. People are neither politically astute nor really interested and therefore, almost exclusively vote their emotions. No thot of long term or unintended consequences, little thot of “vote for my family’s self interest”, no thot of demanding the best from our leaders, just vote the Party line and let’s go eat. Lastly, America’s culture is going down the toilet. Reportedly 70% of the Black and 35% if Hispanic families have no father in residence. Both minorities reportedly are the largest occupant groups in jail, or they used to be before our elected leaders started letting felons out on the street to rob and kill the rest of us. The concept of family and family values, community and country mores, have disintegrated. We have diluted today’s fragile culture by letting millions in over the border, with and without Covid and tuberculosis, fentanyl, cocaine. We are now a secular nation, having lost the morals of a worthy society. We have lost pride in America. We have lost direction. Lost meaning as a culture. Identity.
There is nothing sacred about our country any longer. Rome fell as have hundreds of other vibrant cultures. I fear we don’t have long to wait before ours transition to something no longer resembling the greatness we once were. It does not appear as a country we have the leadership, wisdom, desire, energy or interest to be “the great light at the top of the hill”. Perhaps that is just the nature of continual evolution. Thanks for reading.
I neglected to add a comment attributed to Stalin, I believe, that says it all on the subject of voting. “It is not who votes but who counts the votes that is important “.
Could not agree more with Ron Brown’s response to Victor Hansen’s writing.
Both are crystal clear how far our nation has fallen. It is difficult to admit the state of decay in our nation and culture at the very present day and how fast we fell into it. I do not believe this is accidental. It is just too much to be that. This is a planned destruction of our nation.
And that brings tears to my eyes.
I could not agree with my brother more. We have lost the moral fabric of our country. Socialism has been tried in more than 25 countries. Each time it has failed because it has no moral compass. Socialism is all about power and money. It is all about transfer of money from the lower earners in the economy to the ruling elite. The elites do not care about equity, racism, or LGBT, Black Live Matter. They are only interested in power and themselves.
I visited Russia in 1995. You could not go across county lines without a permit. Everyone could have a job, and there was no welfare. They have a saying – no workee, no eatee. I could go on and on about Russia. I would not like to live there.
There is no other country that has raised more people out of poverty than the United States and the free market economy (Capitalism).