After sustained and vigorous pressure from his party, Joe Biden, the greatest vote-getter in US electoral history, the “sharp as a tack” octogenarian, the winner of the 2024 primary season, will neither accept the nomination of his party nor seek re-election in 2024. He has endorsed Vice-President Kamala Harris to be the party’s new standard-bearer. Biden will finish his term, though, which raises an important question to my mind: if Biden is not fit to run (or stand trial), how is he fit to remain president?
I want to take a moment to reflect on Biden’s historic 2020 election. His record 81.3 million votes was especially astonishing given that he was obviously senile and rarely left his basement to campaign. To put those 81.3 million votes in perspective, George Bush won 62 million votes in 2004; Barack Obama won 69.5 million votes on 2008 and 66 million in 2012. Trump won 63 million votes in 2016. Biden won 81.3 million votes. Right. That happened.
In 2020, Trump received 74 million votes—the most legitimate votes of any president in history (maybe more, if machine vote flipping occurred). But he’s not popular, we’re told. Look at the suppression polls. How did Trump ever win in the first place? How will he ever win again (presuming he will make it to Election Day alive)?
If it’s Hillary Clinton again she, then will need more than the 66 million votes she won in 2016. And she will have to figure out a way to carry the states she lost in that election (because Biden didn’t win them). But, for now, Clinton has endorsed Kamala Harris (so has her husband, the former two-term president). So has Biden. Will Obama? Or will whomever is the Democrat nominee get 80-plus million votes this time?
Imagine our situation today had Trump been reelected in 2020 with his mandate of 74 million votes. We’d be entering the homestretch of his presidency. He’d be a young 78 years old. No war in Ukraine. Peace in the Middle East. A weakened China. A pacified Iran. Secure borders. A booming economy with low inflation and interest rates and rising wages. Strong public safety. All those who hate all those things would be looking at only a few more months of Trump (and Mike Pence would not be the successor). Now they’re looking at four more years of Trump.
In some ways, it’s better Trump lost in 2020. In the meantime, a plan has been developed that takes advantage of the opportunity created by the Supreme Court’s overturning of the Chevron deference (Celebrating the End of Chevron). The project is Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, and it is a highly detailed plan to deconstruction the unconstitutional, unelected, and unaccountable administrative state and return to full capacity the original scheme of the Founders (Project 2025: The Boogeyman of the Wonkish; Attempt at an Albatross: The Manufactured Hysteria Over Agenda 2025). The Trump team wasn’t ready for this in 2020. They’re ready now.
And the public should get ready now. With a straight face, the domestic security apparatus reports that the greatest threat of violence comes from the people who are least involved in violence. The people with the most guns (aside from the government) are not the people committing the violence. The greatest threat of violence is from the groups that have committed the most violence over the last many years: Antifa, BLM, Islamophiles, and trans activists, as well as the street gangs of our central cities. These are the groups whom the Democrats encourage and enable. They are the shock-troops of the corporate state.
If the nation doesn’t experience violence during the run-up to the election, it will when Trump is elected 47th President of the United States. Not from MAGA. From the other side. The Democrats will encourage it. The police will be smeared as racists and ordered to stand down. White people who take to the streets to stand up for their republic will be branded “fascists” (they already are). Defending his country makes a white man a white supremacist because his country was founded on it—and thrives on it. Our educational institutions will mobilize armies of counselors to help the triggered through their trauma (that is, trigger the trauma they manufactured). I shutter contemplating the fate of free thinkers in the academy. I have cause to worry for my safety.
We might even get some election denial from the left. It wouldn’t be the first time Democrats disputed an election (2000, 2004, and 2016 are ready examples). Marc Elias and his ilk are already telling us that election integrity is Republican code for rigging. The hypocrisy on the left will be ignored by the corporate media, just as it ignores the hypocrisy of decrying the age of Donald Trump after having lied about Joe Biden’s health for years. Yes, Trump will be like Biden an octogenarian when he leaves office. But, unlike Biden, Trump is a young 78 years old.
The progressive penchant for historical revisionism may be at peak absurdity. Then again, you can never know with progressives. These are people who euphemism the mutilation of children’s genitals as “health care” and anti-white bigotry as “diversity” and “equity.” We’re told that Biden is a patriot who put country before self. The fact is that Biden was forced out the race by his own party. (Putting country before self might look something like sacrificing life and livelihood to represent your country when it needs you.)
Remember the line from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” New examples of doublethink and the manipulation of historical facts by the regime abound. “Kamala Harris was the Democrat candidate. Kamala Harris has always been the Democrat candidate.” It was a coup. Because that term might feel overused, let me define it for you: A coup involves the overthrow of an existing government or leadership by a small group, often from within the military or other segments of the state apparatus, and is usually carried out with the intent to install a new ruling authority. While coups may not be violent nor involve violations of the law, they do violate democratic norms. In this case, the candidate elected during the primary is no longer the candidate running for office.
But Trump is a threat to Democracy.
Democrats have been telling us that they aren’t voting for a president—they are voting for an administration (now they may be voting for a DEI hire). This was certainly true given that it was obvious that Biden wasn’t actually running the country. However, Republicans can say some similar, for the Republican Party is democratic-republican in character now, which opens the party to liberals, as well as conservatives who are not pro-life and warmongering. It’s a movement. The transformation of the party from a globalist and military project that stitched onto itself Christian conservatism for votes to a big tent populist-nationalist party is nothing less than astonishing.
In a USA Today op-ed yesterday, on National Ice Cream Day, conservative Dace Potas wrote about how sad he is as he watches other conservatives sacrifice “meaningful stances, such as being anti-abortion, opposing sexual promiscuity and opposing union strangleholds on our economy in the name of winning the election.” Take a moment and savor that. The Republican Party is no longer stridently pro-life, prudish to a fault, and anti-labor. And that’s a bad thing. Where do the busybodies go now? (There are analogs for true believers in the woke-scolding Democratic Party, so conservatives might check that out. See what they can live with.)
Potas is also sad because the Republican Party is going to eschew or at least moderate destructive free market policies and hawkish foreign policy. We are seeing the end of neoliberalism and neoconservatism. Democrats are sad to see this, as well. Of course. After all, neoliberalism and neoconservatism were originally their projects. The Uniparty is collapsing.
We are living through a remarkable historical moment. Now if those around Trump can keep him safe. I suggest he stop shaking hands with people and get a food taster. Maybe avoid crowds, albeit these public events are a barometer of the man’s mass support (whatever you think of him, the man is a rock star). The globalists and warmongers are not just going to stand by and watch as they lose their projects. It’s going to get very dangerous now, not only for the president, but for the country.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. [Winton’s] heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth’s centre.”
These words are George Orwell’s. Carry them with you as you go forward in a world where the sense-making institutions of society are determined to gaslight you over the most obvious of truths. Orwell gave you a North Star. You will need rely upon it now more than ever. It is otherwise know as common sense.
freedom and reason 