By Michael Brendan Dougherty
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Spare me all the praise for Joe Biden
as a selfless hero who has put aside his ego and ambition to do what is right
for the country. Joe Biden did not give up the presidency. His candidacy for
reelection was euthanized by his own party, while they thought nothing of him
and everything about the inheritance he could squander if they allowed the
candidacy to live any longer. This was like watching a Canadian Medical
Assistance in Dying scandal, with the president physically and verbally
resisting the “dignity” his party offered him.
“Who put NATO back together, Jack?”
“Take your Paxlovid and shut it, Gramps!”
For weeks, the media hive mind and elected Democrats have
been threatening to trash the reputation of Joe Biden and his family, a
reputation they have routinely humiliated themselves defending in recent years.
Think of the lengths they went to to describe the Hunter Biden story as foreign
propaganda, even when they knew that Hunter was (in the words of Daniel Foster)
something akin to a character in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Think of
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski going on and on about how Joe Biden’s
mental acuity was only just now reaching its peak, having recently been liberated from his
previous “Irish” temper and extremism.
The man was stabbed in the face by people he loyally
served, such as former president Barack Obama, who was reportedly orchestrating
the various statements and leaks that undermined confidence in Joe Biden. He
almost didn’t have to bother; the media was suddenly in full froth. The whole
thing had the quality of a Warner Bros. cartoon, with anvils
falling out of the sky onto Joe Biden’s head, timed to do maximum damage.
Press: Oh, by the way, President Biden hasn’t had an
unscripted full cabinet meeting in years. BANG! Exclusive: Hollywood Donors Are
Abandoning Him. BANG! Oh, the Biden family has a scheduled meeting for a photo
shoot; let’s present it as a meeting at which they are discussing potential
resignation. BANG! Exclusive: Did you know Biden has just been skipping his
meetings with foreign leaders, even ones who deliberately set them early in the
afternoon so he could sleep? BANG! Latest: Biden is being minded almost
exclusively by Hunter Biden, who you might remember is the legally imperiled
monster who addicted his deceased brother’s wife to crack. BANG!
There are some who similarly want to praise the
Democratic Party and its elites for soberly organizing, for reinstituting the
smoke-filled room and saving their party from the extremism of the voters.
This too is a special form of insanity. The Democratic
Party and the enormous media hive mind that protects it had been deliberately
ignoring and covering up Joe Biden’s deterioration for years. They would have
continued to go along with this outrageous abuse of the executive branch —
deliberately running an incompetent — for as long as they could. They only
stopped because the debate performance so badly exposed them that they could no
longer collectively will themselves to deny a fact that the vast majority of
the public and the vast majority of Democratic voters had accepted long ago:
that Joe Biden was too old and infirm to be president of the United States.
The last functional emotional register left in Biden’s
quiver is solemnity. And yet he didn’t get even the simulation of a dignified
exit. The announcement that he was exiting from the presidential race was
delivered via an unmemorable bit of awkward prose, filed directly onto a
social-media platform that most elite progressives claim to hate and that is
owned by a confirmed donor to his opponent.
Now the same Democrats who insisted until just a few
weeks ago that any question about the president’s competence is just the
product of right-wing misinformation and “cheap fakes” are assuring you that
they can make “fetch happen.” Kamala 2024. She’s part of something called “brat girl summer.” I’m sure that will help her run up the
margins in Scranton that Biden did.
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