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.