Of many questions lingering from campaign 2024, perhaps the biggest is whether Biden intentionally sabotaged the Democrats
By show of hands, how many of you diehard Trump fans were confident that this year’s Thanksgiving celebration would be as happy and joyous as it’s turned out to be?
I’ve heard it from a number of people that the feeling is simply different – and better -- these days with the knowledge Donald J. Trump and his appointed government dismantlers and implementers like Pam Bondi (for Attorney General), Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy (at the head of DOGE), Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. et al. will be assuming the reins of the federal beast come two months from this time.
For now, election postmortems continue with theories proffered as to how Trump was able to pull off the most unlikely and historic of all political comebacks earlier this month. Most of the analysis has concentrated on the political disease evident in the Democrat party as well as the gaping holes in their message and platform. Quite frankly, the voters couldn’t tolerate Kamala Harris and Tampon Tim Walz entrusted with theirs and their families’ futures.
But could it have been an inside job? President senile Joe Biden has been practically giddy in public since the day after the election. Three weeks removed from Election Day, senile Joe appears more than ready to vacate town and never look back. Was he hoping the Democrats would lose?
In an opinion column titled “Biden wanted Trump to win (Revenge against his own party)”, Michael McKenna wrote at The Washington Times:
“Not only did he step all over Vice President Kamala Harris’ message — most egregiously when he called those not aligned with her message ‘garbage’ — he seemed almost relieved the morning after the election, announcing that he would do whatever he could to ensure a smooth transition of power...
“Perhaps it is his payback for how he was summarily dismissed as the duly elected presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. Perhaps he is pleased that history will note he was the only candidate to have beaten Mr. Trump. Perhaps he is just happy not to have to go through the motions of being president anymore.
“Or maybe Mr. Biden correctly senses that despite all the noise coming from the few remaining moderates in the Democratic Party, he is likely to be the last Democratic presidential candidate who could even pretend to be an old-line moderate with vestigial attachments to identifiers of normalcy such as religious beliefs, enthusiasm for cars or whatever.”
Or all of the above. I’d hardly label Joseph Robinette Biden as a complex person, but the thoughts and range of emotions flowing through his cobwebbed brain these days must be diverse, indeed. By his appearances at international meetings and summits recently, it looked to this observer as though Biden has given up or in more modern parlance, he’s “dialing it in”.
Most of us have been at jobs where we knew we’d be moving on soon and the greatest temptation is to slack off or go through the motions or, for want of a better way to put it, “quit” as your hours dwindled down.
But the “fight” has apparently left senile Joe Biden. Throughout his more than a half century in the Washington swamp, Biden’s never been known for treading lightly. He’s been seen as friendly (to some) and accommodating, but not lazy and flighty. The senile Joe Biden we’ve come to know is the same brawler he’s portrayed himself to be whenever Trump’s name is mentioned.
His persona is what’s worked for him over the decades. But now -- really, root for the other team to win? The notion seems utterly preposterous, particularly because the opponent in this case was their most bitter rival. When Democrats insinuated that a Trump victory would destroy democracy and mark the return of a Hitler-like authoritarian dictator, one tends to believe they were serious.
Democrats have always been proficient at branding their opponents to make them appear heartless and cruel and against women, minorities, gay people, immigrants (of all sorts) racist to the core, so much so that they’ve come to believe their own rhetoric. Up until Trump, at least, Republicans have badly lagged in the mudslinging category so as to appear “bipartisan” and willing to work across the aisle, assuming their opponents had good intentions.
And losing didn’t matter that much. Too many examples to prove the assertion.
That’s John McCain for you. The “Maverick” could toss out names alright, but usually directed at people in his own party. Remember “wacko birds”?
Senile Joe isn’t innocent here, but he was largely responsible for fostering the myth that Trump was a tyrant and that no one liked the New York outsider. The reputation stuck, particularly with the media and “The View” constituency of elitest limousine liberals.
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Though hardly a Never Trumper at any point, McKenna could be counted as part of a significant number of Trump skeptics who outwardly cautioned against the former Republican standard bearer getting the GOP’s 2024 nomination. The Washington Times writer suggested that Trump’s tortured relationship with the professional political class in Washington would basically mean the new president would, if elected, face difficulty finding enough willing butts to fill the administration’s chairs.
McKenna’s argument essentially went like this – since Trump was estranged from many, many of his former top-level advisors, including his vice president, prospective employees wouldn’t relish risking their current positions to take a chance on going to work for a man who was notoriously demanding, petty, petulant, picky and took delight at throwing people who he no longer had use for under the proverbial bus.
Lots of observers said it, didn’t they? Like there was a single Republican primary voter out there who weighed whether Trump could entice a sufficient number of swamp creatures to enter the executive branch and toil for him for four years.As the transition proceeds it’s clear that McKenna’s – and others’ – fears were unfounded. Great “outsider” folks are literally lining up for a shot at serving, the only high-profile “loss” to the Trump team being gadfly Matt Gaetz thus far. The balance of Trump’s nominations should be confirmed without too much problem.
Even some Democrats will vote to confirm them.
So it’s clear that many of the assumptions made prior to Trump’s victory haven’t come to fruition. Neither has the notion that senile Joe Biden worked as hard as he possibly could to help his vice president replace him. If senile Joe cares about what’s happened to his party after the election, he’s done a mighty good job disguising his concern.
Or, it could be Biden has finally deteriorated to the extent where he can’t disguise it any longer. All one had to do is watch the video from last week as Biden finished a brief statement and then shuffled along into the rainforest. As Joe himself would say… no joke.
It’s hard to tell whether Biden is doing any of these things on purpose or if he’s even aware he’s doing them – acting overly happy, calm, relieved, free of stress, or that he’s lost his “mojo”. Senile Joe appears to have accepted his political fate and resigned to letting history define his place in the ages.
His familiar arrogance allows him to believe he’ll be thought of as a great ruler.
The days couldn’t pass fast enough for Joe Biden. Donald Trump’s second inauguration day will probably he one of the best in Biden’s life. Did he plan it this way? It’s anybody’s guess, and you wouldn’t be wrong.
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