In just a few months Joe Biden has wrought a series of disasters that will invoke outrage that dwarfs the concocted anger directed at Donald Trump.
As Joe Biden entered office in January 2021, there still
roared a left-wing revolution, a woke madness spreading through popular culture
and Congress, much of which he indirectly has aided and abetted. It has
redefined not just politics but the rules of the presidency. And the eventual
casualty of these radical shifts in protocols and customs will be—Joe Biden.
Take impeachment, which heretofore had been rare and has
still never led to a Senate conviction. Prior to Trump, Andrew Johnson and Bill
Clinton were the only presidents to have been impeached (Richard Nixon resigned
to avoid it), and both were acquitted in the Senate.
Yet leftist congressional representatives introduced
articles of impeachment the very first week Trump was in office, on the absurd
allegation of profiting from his office (the presidency cost the Trump
corporations hundreds of millions). The House later went on to impeach him
twice, without writs of “treason” and “bribery” or even “high crimes and
misdemeanors” as set out by the Constitution. Instead, Trump was, first,
successfully impeached for supposedly abusing his power and obstructing
Congress. I don’t think the average American has ever been pulled over by the
police for the high crime “of obstructing Congress” (historically a
presidential pastime) or has been charged with “abuse of power” (said of every
president from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama).
Trump’s second impeachment was even flimsier. He was
accused of “incitement of insurrection” concerning disturbances on January
6 that supposedly led to the violent death of Officer Brian
Sicknick, the fatal shooting of an unarmed Ashli
Babbitt, and the entire fable of an “armed
insurrection.” Post-impeachment, we would learn that Sicknick died of
natural causes. Strangely, for months no information about the shooter of Ashli
Babbitt or the inquiry into that fatal act was ever fully released to the
public. No one was charged with armed insurrection, largely because none of the
buffoonish rioters were found either to have carried or used a firearm that day
or were exposed as master plotters with plans to destroy the U.S. government.
They may well have been guilty of felonies, but armed insurrectionary
conspiracy was not one of them.
No matter, the precedent had been set that serial
impeachments now will be normative when a president in his first term loses
party control of the House. Charges may not follow constitutional definitions.
There will be no need to appoint a special counsel, to build a case on
evidence, or to hold a formal hearing where witnesses present testimonies and
are subject to cross-examination. There will be no expectation that the Senate
will even come close to convicting an impeached president. Impeachment is
simply now a political gambit to embarrass a party or a president before a
reelection. Biden and future presidents as private citizens could be hounded
after exiting office with a Senate impeachment trial.
Joe Biden by such new standards would then be in jeopardy
should the Democrats lose the House in 2022, on the precedent that the
Republicans could bring up anything they wished—unwillingness to enforce
existing federal immigration law, deliberately misleading the American public
on the growing catastrophe in Afghanistan, leveraging a foreign leader to lie
with threats of withholding U.S. airpower to enhance his own political agenda,
or empowerment of and collusion with his son Hunter Biden in past efforts to
massage foreign governments for cash on the expectation of future advantageous
U.S. government treatment. These may be flimsy charges for traditional
impeachment; they are certainly not under the new Democratic model.
When Donald Trump’s confidential phone calls with foreign
leaders were leaked to the press it was celebrated by the media and the Left as
a sort of blood sport. Now are we to think the same of the embarrassing leaked
phone call between Biden and the Afghan president?
Donald Trump was impeached over a phone call with the
Ukrainian president for supposedly pressuring Ukraine, by the threat of holding
up foreign aid, to conduct an investigation of the Biden family syndicate’s
shenanigans. So, what are we to make then of Biden’s demand that the Afghan
president lie to the world so that his fragile government did not appear in
jeopardy, even if, Biden acknowledged, it, of course, was—with the added
insinuation that Biden’s commitment to support the Afghan government with U.S.
military power was predicated on his compliance with parroting such lies?
We saw from 2017 to 2021 the precedent that both active
and retired top Pentagon brass would either leak derogatory assessments of the
commander-in-chief to the press, or overtly declare him to be morally unfit to
hold office—all in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. What then
is the country to do, amid the Afghanistan catastrophe, when lots of retired
generals are now going public with calls for their president’s key military and
civilian office holders to resign for culpability for a series of foreign
policy disasters? Is it a good thing for our generals and admirals to become
editorialists and critics of an elected president’s administration or
ill-conceived, both, neither—or sometimes, depending on who is president?
In the Trump years, the Left institutionalized the new
idea that threatening to invoke the 25th Amendment was a casual affair, a
strategy appropriate to harming or removing a president. So the acting heads of
the FBI and Justice Department apparently discussed plots to wear eavesdropping
equipment to entrap Trump in recorded conversations that might reveal his
alleged dementia. An Ivy League psychiatrist was called to Congress to swear
that the president was non compos mentis and in need of a forced
intervention. The media demanded proof of Trump’s sanity to the point he
took—and aced—the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.
Joe Biden is obviously suffering from some sort of
organic illness that has reduced his mental faculties to the point he is often
dazed. When he is rarely able to craft complete sentences, he says things that
are incoherent, offensive, and occasionally racist. He seems to have no
knowledge of current events and so reassures trapped Americans in Kabul that
they can simply go to the besieged airport, show their passports, and waltz on
in.
Under the new protocols, are we to expect high Justice
Department officials to record stealthily Biden’s private conversations, to
subpoena an appropriate Ivy League psychiatrist, or to ask the president to
take a simple cognitive assessment test?
Under Joe Biden, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, General Mark Milley, sought to ingratiate himself to the woke movement,
to his woke Secretary of Defense, and to Joe Biden by assuring Congress he
would get to the root of “white rage” and in general recommend to his troops
the relevant woke texts such as those of Professor Ibram X. Kendi.
Milley produced no evidence that there were lots of
insurrectionary white supremacists in the military. He cared little in his
virtue signaling that “white” male soldiers had died in Iraq and Afghanistan at
twice their numbers in the general population—a cardinal sin under woke
disparate impact and proportional representation canons.
Again, fine. But given the sometimes violent nature of
Black Lives Matter, and its apparently proud Marxist origins, is it now equally
OK for some future chairman to testify that he will go through the ranks to
understand black rage as his Pentagon roots out would-be BLM extremists?
These hypocrisies are endless, given the pernicious
precedents that so casually have now been embraced for cheap political
advantage.
Will the next Speaker of the House ritually tear up
Biden’s State of the Union address, as he hands the text to him on national
television?
Will the Congress appoint a special counsel, allot him 22
months and $40 million to scour the Biden team to find the causes, origins, and
those culpable of the greatest foreign policy debacle since the last days of
Vietnam—with occasional side trips along the tortured family money trail and
indifference to the IRS of Hunter Biden’s international grifting?
Will retired Trump-era CIA and high-ranking intelligence
officials go on cable television to wink and nod about their privileged
security clearance information to accuse Biden of treasonous behavior?
Will they tweet that he and his policies are similar to
those of the German death camps, or stamp him as Mussolini or
Hitler-like?
And will some “brave” disillusioned Democratic “loyalist”
be canonized in the media as he falsely reassures the nation, as “Anonymous
II,” that he is both high-ranking and representative of a large, dissident, and
grassroots resistance to Biden within his own administration and party? Will
the New York Times print his warning that an army of idealists
is ready and willing to resist any Biden presidential order that it finds
distasteful? Is that the political culture that Biden should now operate
under?
Did the NATO allies find Trump’s brashness—which resulted
in a considerable increase in alliance military funding and readiness—as bad as
Biden’s soothing words that betrayed our European partners and have all but
ruined the alliance?
Was all this hypocrisy predicated on the idea that the
Left will never lose power, or that its atrocious behavior was defensible for
the moment given the accident of Donald Trump? Or do Democrats really believe
there must be one standard for leftist moralists and another for their supposed
inferiors, on their blinkered assumption that there would never be a Democratic
president as controversial and disliked by the Right as Donald Trump was by the
Left?
The truth is that in just a few months Joe Biden has
wrought a series of disasters that will invoke outrage that dwarfs the
concocted anger directed at Donald Trump. And it may be vented through the very
protocols that the Left invented for its own short-term advantage.
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