This was the macro-theme of the Democrat convention and Joe Biden’s acceptance speech. Hand it to the DNC for staying on message: COVID AND CRUDE BEHAVIOR ARE UN-AMERICAN. Most of us got the message Monday night and, by Thursday, the convention had become a vapid infomercial. But, Biden did put senility issues to rest: the man can read a teleprompter.
Biden did just well enough in the primaries and debates the DNC could torpedo Bernie Sanders (again). At least, Trump won’t lose to a mad-liberal populist, whose executive orders would gut American dynamism. And, in spite of what your conservative friends post on Facebook, Biden is actually inclined to compromise and levity, which is what Democrats believe is all it will take to oust President Trump (AKA President Darkness).
Curiously, Biden doesn’t represent a transformational idea, other than Not Trump. Lyndon Johnson ran on big government’s war on poverty. Ronald Reagan ran on less government. Bill Clinton ran on welfare reform. Donald Trump ran on fair-trade populism. Biden is running on presidential character. Trust me: by the time Election Day is here, you’ll have seen thousands of Mean Trump sound bites – especially in swing districts.
The CG has long maintained voters make decisions based on how they feel and Trump’s behavior could emotionally drain voters. This might explain in a great economy (for three years) why the President has never polled above 50%. Trump’s behavior invited but-monkey resistance: yes, but did you hear what he said yesterday? In my mind, 2020 feels like 1976, when voters were so exhausted by the Vietnam War and Watergate, they leaped at nice-guy Jimmy Carter and “I’ll never tell you a lie.”
Unfortunately, this world is filled with “nice guys” that sit beside you in church or work in the next cubicle, but “nice” stopped working in Washington and the world a long time ago. From 1977 to 1981, OPEC and Russia ate nice Jimmy Carter for breakfast, resulting in emboldened Iranian Islamists invading our embassy and holding US hostages for 444 days, and Russians invading Afghanistan.
Today, Iran and China are poised to eat nice Joe Biden for breakfast – and that’s just foreign affairs. If there’s a national rejection of Trump at the top of the ticket, then Pelosi and Schumer will control both houses of Congress, where Democrats feel entitled to change everything Trump supports because he’s evil. And, while some change is in order, America does not need a runaway tax-and-spend train – not after spending trillions to survive COVID-19.
Biden must fix three problems, which President Trump at least identified:
- Education inequality is THE root of black-white inequality, and school choice is the black-supported solution. Does Biden have the stones to take on teacher unions?
- Iran-sponsored Islamic terror is THE constraint to global tranquility, and achieving Israel-Sunni normalcy is the solution (see UAE). Will Biden run back to Iran and Palestine; thereby rejecting Sunnis and Jews?
- China is THE geo-political threat, and economic and military hegemony is their goal. Is Biden the blue-collar guy or free-trade elite?
The hope here is that Biden, like Carter, embarrasses without irreparable damage. There is a pro-civilization movement afoot in every western nation to re-purpose governments to serve citizens in three ways: (1) protect real and intellectual property, (2) preserve church, family and community, and (3) democratize capital and information. Sadly, Democrats are so focused on settling old identity grievances, they view western civilization as a threat.
The fact remains that western nations are heavily populated by western ethnicities, who believe their civilization is under attack. And, while Trump has been a bad spokesperson, he did see the Clinton-Bush-Obama failure to fight for the core beliefs of everyday people. If Democrats persist with the view that the constructs of civilization are the tools of white supremacy, then Nikki Haley is waiting to crush them in 2024.