Disuniting America

By all appearances Joe Biden has now won the presidential election. As one might have expected, his first foray into presumptively presidential speechifying included a call for national unity. 

Coming from the leader of a party that has spent four years doing everything in its power to undermine national unity, it was rich indeed.

When Biden asked Trump supporters to give him a chance, Hoover Institution fellow Paul Sperry responded:

Like you gave Trump a chance in 2016-17 when you spied on his campaign, smeared him as a Russian agent, requested NSA intercept unmaskings on his appointees &proposed prosecuting his nat'l security adviser under the Logan Act?

As you know, the Democratic playbook had it that everything bad that Democrats did was the fault of Donald Trump. It was certainly audacious, but it was wildly dishonest.

But, the Democratic Party and its media enablers spend four years trying to discredit and cripple the Trump administration. And then it declared that the administration was dysfunctional.

If the Obama administration gave Crimea to Russia, it meant that Trump was a Russian stooge. If the Obama administration refused to sell anti-tank missiles to the Ukraine-- because Putin did not want them to-- when Trump held up sales of said missiles for two whole months it was impeachable. If Joe Biden went on television to proclaim how deftly he had handled a quid pro quo with the Ukrainian government, Trump had to be impeached for a supposed quid pro quo with the Ukraine. If the Obama administration canceled an order of defensive missiles to Poland and the Czech Republic, at the bidding of Vladimir Putin, the fault lay with Trump. If Obama had allowed the ISIS caliphate to fester in Iraq and Syria, and had done nothing to stop the war in Syria, it could only mean that Trump was the devil.

Few of Biden’s statements yesterday was quite as disingenuous as this one:

Let this era of demonization in America end NOW.

In one sense this contains a kernel of truth. Since the Democratic effort to demonize Donald Trump was the hallmark of the era of demonization, defeating Trump completes their work. 

The second candidate for being utterly disingenuous was this statement, from Biden:

Let’s not treat opponents as enemies. They are not enemies. They are Americans. This is the time to heal in America.

A noble sentiment, indeed. And yet, this is not the way Democrats acted during the Trump administration. They treated Republicans as enemies. Think of the way they treated Brett Kavanaugh. In truth, Republicans, for their many flaws, never tried to destroy a Democratic Supreme Court nominee.

We have criticized Donald Trump. His imperfections, especially, his inability to keep quiet for more than an hour or so, undermined his candidacy and his presidency. Making himself the lead on the coronavirus was clearly a mistake. He should not have stood before a podium talking about things he did not understand. He acted like a salesman who did not know when to stop selling.

And yet, Trump was subjected to constant abuse, harassment and bullying, from the Democratic Party and from the media. The latter, having become the propaganda arm of the Democratic had taken to misreporting the news, to couch news stories in a way to make Trump look bad. Obviously, presidents cannot sue for libel, slander and defamation of character, but if they could, Trump would have more than a few good cases. The moral failings of the American media will not soon be forgotten.

One thing is certain, the American media had tired of the constant negativity. So electing Biden means that they can go back to covering up his indecency, to covering up his dementia, to covering up his family’s corruption, to covering up Hunter's porn career, to seeing everything through rose colored glasses. Just like the good old days when it did nothing but lie for Obama.

Keep in mind, the war that Democrats have waged against America for many years now involves thought crimes, aka bigotry. Nothing is quite as divisive as a war against what you might and might not be thinking. Of course, if you are white and male, the current version of the war on bigotry declares you a bigot… regardless. Do you think that the war against white supremacy is now going to vanish in the mist.

The war on bigotry became perfectly manifest during the Obama administration. Then, you might remember, when terrorists attacked America-- at Ft. Hood, at San Bernardino, at Orlando, at the Boston Marathon, the pusillanimous Obama, terrified of the wrath of Allah, refused to denounce Islamist terrorism. He saved his ammunition for Islamophobia, i.e., for bigotry. That was his true enemy. Yet, declaring war on the minds of Americans, especially white male Americans, is not the royal road to unity. It must fundamentally disunite the country.

When Islamist terrorists murdered people in a Kosher supermarket in Paris, Obama refused to say that their actions had anything to do with anti-Semitism. Today's Democratic Party has become infested with anti-Semitism-- another part of the Obama legacy. It's yet another side of the constant effort to demonize certain peoples.

The prime mover behind the war against white supremacy was Barack Obama. Among Trump's sins, he was demonized for being a white male. Among his other sins, half his family was Jewish. And we can’t have that.

Let’s not forget this year’s insurrection in major American cities was not mounted by the armies of the right. It was mounted by the armies of the left, by Black Lives Matter and by Antifa. The sad part is that the media has succeeded in laying the blame on Donald Trump-- because the only thing they know how to do is to demonize.

Nevertheless, Trump did better in minority communities than any Republican had in ages. So, minority voters often saw through the charade. If they are pinning their hopes on a Biden presidency, just as they pinned hopes on an Obama presidency, they will certainly be disappointed.

Besides, Joe Biden does nothing more these days than go through the motions. Consider the following piece of nonsense, uttered yesterday:

Give everyone in this country a fair shot, that's all anyone is asking for... a fair shot.

Of course, this is the Republican position. It is decidedly not the position of the anti-racism crowd, and the diversity mongers in our midst. These latter, the people who are in charge of the creepy old buffoon called Joe Biden, do not believe in a fair chance. They believe in proportional outcomes. They believe that white people must be guilt-tripped into submission, into supporting policies that dispense with all considerations of merit and count only issues of race.

After all, our new regent, Kamala Harris, is more diverse, in her person, than even Barack Obama. Quite an achievement. that. But then, do you really imagine that she earned her position because of her splendid achievements. Unlikely, that. 

Among the causes of America's disunity is the contagion called identity politics. Do you really believe that it is going to disappear now that it is running the country?