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It’s Over: Biden Gets Key David French Endorsement
There are a number of substantive criticisms that can be made of Donald Trump. Most recently his utterly graceless remarks about his former GOP opponents. (I wish I had the power to make Mr. Trump watch videos of Ronald Reagan gutting his adversaries but doing so without losing gravitas or stepping away from an overriding positive vision. Showing to be followed by a quiz and assignments.) But taken individually or as a whole, Trump’s obvious defects do not justify an endorsement of Joe Biden as issued by the increasingly pathetic David French.
Pre-Obama, losing a presidential election usually meant a shift to the right or left within known parameters. Welfare and defense spending would be affected at the margins but the federal bureaucracy did not see itself as a partisan enforcer no matter who won. Public debates and litigation about sexual freedoms did not involve silencing and active suppression of dissenting majority opinion and values.
In the greatest bait-and-switch in American electoral history since Woodrow Wilson’s promise to keep us out of war, Obama was thought to symbolize a final cleansing of historic racist sins. It was to be not merely a final defeat of racism but would also provide us with a leader with standing to address self-defeating ideological and behavioral problems within the African-American population. As it turned out, Obama had less personal concern for the actual well-being of the black underclass than McCain or Romney–and brought about less material progress than did Trump. Obama only valued a permanent accusation of racism that could be deployed to destroy all loyalty and reverence for the American legal, political and cultural heritage. That irrefutable accusation was key to the “transformation.”
Joe Biden (or whoever is inserted at the last minute) is the continuation of the Obama Transformation.
A Biden victory means the de facto naturalization of 20 to 30 million illegals. A cynical forced placement of that influx into purple states to replace the working class defectors from the Democratic Party combined with automatic vote collection could provide permanent Democratic congressional majorities and an electoral college lock before its removal in favor of popular vote.
A Biden victory means a leftist majority on the Supreme Court and a continued intellectual downgrade of the entire federal judiciary. Conservatives would come to miss the articulate, sometimes independent jurisprudence of Ruth Bader Ginsberg as low-wattage kneejerk rubber-stamp opinions instead become the norm.
A Biden and larger Democratic victory will mean that the administrative state will know it can punish all dissent openly without fear of pushback. No Democratic Congress, no Biden-appointed court will act to protect political targets of the FBI, DOJ and IRS and they will know it. Wray and Garland will no longer have to defy and sneer at congressional oversight –there won’t be any oversight.
A Biden win will mean insane energy policies that will result in hardship and economic disruption.
A Biden victory combined with a large-scale Democratic win at other levels means that urban economic collapse will continue. There could be state-run stores, coupons, rationing in decay zones and other costly, failed wealth transfer schemes that increase dependence, solve nothing and worsen the deficit.
A Biden win means more enforcement and promotion of DEI because the demoralization of the normals is not a bug but an integral component of the continuing Obama administration’s “transformation” project.
And to top it off, Joe Biden has demonstrably lower personal integrity than any politician of prominence in the entire country. So a character-based rejection of Donald Trump in favor of Joe Biden is simply silly.
But then again, that massive destruction of our country is a small price to pay for enhanced self-satisfaction for David French. I could almost understand a principled neutrality on his part but I guess that would not garner enough attention.
I imagine that David French harbors some fantasy of a great American resurgence arising from the cultural rubble of a “transformed” America post-Biden by a body politic cleansed of Trump. The ironic problem with that fantasy is that an intensely polite, moderate GOP is entirely ill-suited to lead an insurgent movement against an entrenched amoral power– kinda like trying to picture Mitt Romney or Mitch McConnell being cast for a part in Red Dawn. If there is enough spark left to rebel, the new leader (let’s call him Trump II) will likely be even more rough-edged and thus even less deserving of Mr. French’s approval.
Donald Trump often says things that offend me but I don’t feel like the entire country should suffer to compensate my feelings.
Published in General
The rest of the post is excellent, OB. The title provoked that response. I read the following yesterday from Stephen Kruiser at PJMedia:
Bullseye. And ouch.
Obama & Biden make me pine for the Clinton Days.
Clinton (and Bush ll) were tremors of what could come but Obama and his ‘Fundamental Transformation’, that was the the iceburg the US hit and when the hull was truly breached.
More accurate metaphor is that Captain Obama was aiming for the iceberg…
I hope we can finally stop referring to David French as a conservative of any kind.
“That irrefutable accusation was key to the ” transformation.””
Transformation, to a very large extent, means destruction. See my posts The Great Liquidation and Head-Heart-Stomach.
Also Victor Davis Hanson: Is America Heading for a Systems Collapse?
David French and his pal Russell Moore are helping leftists infiltrate the church. Be very alert.
When this book comes out, expose these demons.
Keep this curriculum far from your congregations.
A Biden win also means a Middle East dominated by Iran…an Iran armed with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, possibly even hypersonic nuclear-capable missiles.
Josiah Lippincott doesn’t pull any punches. It’s not “David Vichy French.” He’s part of the Judas Iscariot wing of Republicans — using his so-called “Christian” identity to betray us. Same with Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, and Liz Cheney.
https://amgreatness.com/2024/03/17/david-french-mike-pence-and-the-judas-iscariot-wing-of-conservative-inc/
The only time I hear of David French is when he is writing something derogatory about a Republican Presidential Candidate. I don’t think it matters who the candidate has been over the past three or four decades. What is significant about anything David French writes or says? Does 1/2 of one percent of the American public even know who he is? How many of those care what he thinks? This is MAGA time. It’s not your grandfather’s Republican Party. Our opposition is not the Scoop Jackson Democrats either. We cannot expect our rank and file to be fighters if our leader is a wimp.
Your post is excellent in stating the outcome of another 4 years of Biden presidency. But my favorite sentence is – “Donald Trump often says things that offend me but I don’t feel like the entire country should suffer to compensate my feelings.” Thank you!
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/03/17/biden-campaign-raised-record-breaking-53-million-in-february/
A lot of people with money to spare want Biden in office. I assume that the motive is opposition to Trump. What is it about Trump that terrifies them?
The uniparty serves the interests of the ultra rich. Grifters who depend on subsidies, consulting contracts, crony capitalism, and the whole crowd who bailed out Wall Street but not Main Street when the bubble burst. The noisy middle class presumes to criticize the sex habits of the Epstein fan club so they need to be squelched. An entire layer of African-American Judas goats deliver votes and power to very rich white people who ooze fake compassion. A legitimate democracy would end the gravy train.
So Trump would effect a “fundamental transformation”? I can see that would be a problem for those who have learned to work the existing systems so well.
I quibble with your statement that it was the Obama administration when we saw the bureaucracy become politicized. I think it was much further back, but that is just a quibble. Otherwise, you are spot on about this.
It’s been a while…
I don’t think it’s so much ‘people with money’ as:
I get not voting for Trump. I don’t get voting for Biden.
Trump was very gracious when DeSantis withdrew. Lord Black discussed his observations based on many years interacting with Trump.
https://www.steynonline.com/14143/conrad-black-on-the-dirty-stinking-rotten-corrupt
Here we go again…
Dear Gitabushi,
Remember the glories of the McCain and Romney administrations?
There’s your answer, cupcake.
—P
Pre-Trump, I used to enjoy listening to David French on certain podcasts. But even then he exuded a certain sniffy superiority of opinion that was irritating.
I laughed at that great subject line.
It’s obviously not limited to David French. Liz Cheney is another example. From their actions and statements, they feel the Republican Party should spend time in the wilderness, with no political power for at least a generation.
I wouldn’t have a problem with that, if we were dealing with Bill Clinton’s Democratic Party (as much as I despised him).
And after J6, I thought that Trump would have gone into obscurity, much like other former presidents, including those that only served one term. I still think that would have happened, if the Democrats hadn’t started their lawfare offensive against him. I also think that they did that deliberately so that Trump would end up being the Republican nominee.
Sending the Republicans into obscurity for a generation is an indulgence we can’t afford.
Bush was Hitler. Any Republican who is not in lockstep with the Democrats with be demonized.
See you later, Liz. Write if you find work.
Splitting the baby ends in a dead baby — a dead America. It gives a whole new urgency to “a time for choosing.”
I lived in a state guaranteed to go Democrat at the national level for thirty-eight years. My vote for a GOPe candidate for president was meaningless. Now I live in a state almost guaranteed to go Repub at the national level, so again, my vote is meaningless. I could refuse to vote for Haley, Christie, Kasich, or any other blob and not risk seeing Wandering Joe re-elected, and had any of those been the candidate, I’d leave the top slot blank.
It’s not meaningless. Even if you live in a deep blue state sure to vote Biden, you vote for the Republican anyway, because
a. you don’t want to give the Democrats the “national popular vote.”
b. you need to show the conservatives where you live that they’re not alone.
c. you need to make it harder for Democrats at all levels.
d. you don’t want them to think they have a mandate of any sort. Even if they win, you want it to be as narrow as possible.
e. you might actually win.
Don’t be defeatist.
I hear you. But, we know who’s at the top of the ticket, and we never hear the end of “fill-in-the-blank-Democrat won the national popular vote.” Every vote counts more than ever this election, imo (I wouldn’t be surprised if the Left pulled off the NPV compact before the election. The ends justify all means for leftists).
People may choose to leave off voting for president, but I, for one, completely and utterly deny their moral superiority for not opposing the Demoncrats.
The choice is between Satan’s army and not-Satan’s army. Anyone who doesn’t see that lacks moral clarity.
WC, I don’t live in a swing state. I live in Minnesota, which is going to go for Biden (or whatever Democrat is on the ticket if he keels over). I feel no obligation to vote for a candidate who has made it clear he doesn’t want my vote. But I have no intention of voting for Biden, and I have a hard time understanding a self-styled conservative who wouldn’t just leave the presidential slot blank or write in someone they prefer, rather than vote for Biden.
He is a lawyer and he saw everything through legal solutions. Are people making you bake a cake against your conscious…well, the solution is to hire a lawyer and file a lawsuit. If you don’t do that then your convictions must not be very strong after all. If you do make that suit, then it may take years to get a resolution, but that is the way this should work after all…lawsuits take lots of time because the lawyers need to bill you lots of hours (even if someone else is paying for it. Whatever happens, we shouldn’t change the laws to make these protections codified because that would reduce the number of law suits that people like Mr. French got to bill against.