J-Pod Warns Democrats

One of the under-appreciated services the GOPe and the Neo-con faction of pundits perform for Democrats is providing counsel from a more 'objective' position, given both Democrats and Neo-cons don't want to see Trump win again. John Podhoretz is no rabid partisan here, but an objective observer sounding the alarm. A friend from the other side of the aisle dispensing good advice.

This article outlines the problem(s) with Biden in polling and other indicators and holds the readers' hand through the pain of the facts. Couched even in the most optimistic terms, the data John Podhoretz cites looks quite bad for Biden:

Michael Tyler of the Biden campaign offered a ready response to the bad news: “Polling continues to be at odds with how Americans vote, and consistently overestimates Donald Trump while underestimating President Biden.” I’m sorry, but this is simply untrue, and Democrats should not take false comfort.

Later in the article citing the growing support from Hispanics:

But the poll, and others like it, make clear that Mr. Trump has continued to make remarkable inroads with Hispanic voters.” 46-40! When Trump was insulting a judge in Wisconsin for being Hispanic, or showing his love for Latinos by eating a taco bowl at his desk, who would ever have thought this possible?

Of course J-Pod claims Trump insulted a judge 'because' he was Hispanic, and therefore somehow all Hispanics. This is identity politics that the GOPe love to hide behind and simultaneously advance like a Roman phalanx, using their political spears from behind a shield-wall of Democratic half-truths and toxic racial memes. They will advance the Democrat identity politics of Well, I never! How can someone say that! all day if they don't fully agree with the Republican in question.

Then there is the egregious act of celebrating Mexican cuisine as a clear indication of awkward bigotry.

Yes, it is indeed 'possible' because most Hispanics are not hypersensitive and so quick to take offense. Certainly the ones who aren't all that happy about the rapid influx of their (artificially constructed) demographic pouring over the borders aren't going to hold this supposed faux pas as some massive grudge.

Rather than focusing on imagined slights, most Hispanics look at, and look for, results. Apparently the author believed it wasn't possible to gain support and respect from Hispanics by actions across the board, taken at full measure, the entire economy, crime and other positions including, family, freedom of religion and abortion. They are only interested in one thing, you see - trying to stamp out the stereotype that Hispanics eat tacos all the time, or something... After a while I think the Neo-cons internalize all the left's accusations and are desperate to deflect onto their factional opponents. Not me! Them! Not us! It's those MAGA people! Watch, I'll accuse them of being racially insensitive myself!

Hispanics are not monolithic as Mr. Podhoretz fancies they are. He seems surprised that the vast majority of legal, voting Hispanics might just want to make America great again and they might be a different strain than marxist Hispanic activists who promote racial friction, and a group Mr. Podhoretz believes is representative of La Raza (the race).

And that’s not the only jaw-dropping result among a Democratic constituency. African-Americans are still overwhelmingly Democratic, but…not quite so overwhelmingly. This poll puts Trump’s support among black people at 23 percent, with 66 percent supporting Biden.

Jaw-dropping maybe for Podhoretz, but this trend has been growing steadily since Trump entered the race in 2015. My jaw remains in its upright position. Somehow J-Pod was able to restrain himself from citing how supposedly racist Trump is, however, he offers no speculation or insight as to why this increase of black support might be. Could it be they see a better economy under Trump? Could it be that they are waking up to these scams the Neo-cons are running? Maybe they think Biden is far more advanced in the racism department than Trump? Maybe they are getting wise to the Democratic party's tactical use of fear-mongering every election cycle?

And remember that Trump himself has an enthusiasm problem of some size owing to questions about his character and the legal action against him, as suggested by. (sic) Nikki Haley’s not-disastrous showing against him (even if much of her vote has come from people who never voted for Trump in the first or second place).

Now "not disastrous" is considered a 'win' for JPod. The levels of copium these people ingest and barf-out unawares is astounding. As to, "people who never voted for Trump in the first or second place" they are called Democrats, but maybe John gets paid by the word.

The question is whether Biden himself is looking at these numbers—and in moments of clarity is able to discern the colossal humiliation he may be on the verge of experiencing, not to mention historical judgment that will be rendered of his feckless decision to hold on to the reins of power should he lose in November.

Of course he's not looking at the numbers and he's already humiliated himself and our country.

Might he, therefore, get himself out of the race and give Democrats a chance to do what they clearly think is the most important thing they can do—save America from another Trump term?

The point of this article: Help Democrats understand they are driving off a cliff and should ditch Biden. Free advice from someone who cares!

In conclusion, we get to why John Podhoretz is so readable and educational (for me anyway). He was able to write an entire article about how Biden is losing without one positive reference to the guy that's winning and how that could *possibly* be. Well done! Then, the university-educated author uses the poets, Yeats and Tennyson and incorporates passages on age beautifully, almost Noonan-esque for his lofty conclusion:

Biden claims to love poetry. And there are two great poems about senescence. One is Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium,” with its savage lines: “An aged man is but a paltry thing,/A tattered coat upon a stick.” In it, the poet yearns for release from his paltriness; he feels his soul has been “fastened to a dying animal,” which is his body. The other is Tennyson’s “Ulysses,” which is far more inspiring: “Though we are not now that strength which in old days/Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;/One equal temper of heroic hearts/Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” He obviously wants to be seen as the Ulysses of Tennyson; weakened by time and fate, but strong in will, and unyielding. But as he moves about the world in full view of the people who will decide his future, he seems far more like a tattered coat upon a stick fastened to a dying animal. He would truly be the Ulysses of Tennyson if he were able to see himself clearly and realize that the only real act of a heroic heart would be to yield.

Good Sir, for the good of the nation, will you yield?

Subtext - please Democrats save yourselves... and us neocons because Nikki Haley is just one "not disastrous" showing away from obscurity!