Victor Davis Hanson // National Review
Joe Biden lost it again on the campaign trail at an auto plant being built in Detroit, and in a now familiar script.
His blowup had all his characteristic theatrics of prior such encounters. There were the shouting at blue-collar workers, the he-man, corn-pop-like braggadocio, the ad hominem expletives (“you’re full of s***!”), the invasion of one’s personal space with his habitual wagging finger, the personal invective (“horse’s a**”), and, of course, being wrong on the issues and accusations.
It certainly is reasonable to assume that, given Biden’s promise to put Beto O’Rourke (“Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15”) in charge of a President Biden’s Second Amendment policies, a normal voter rightly could fear that Biden either wants, or would allow, bans on certain type of guns.
This latest incident joins lots of others, such as the Iowa one-on-one with an apparently portly male questioner: “You’re a damn liar, and that’s not true. . . . I’m not sedentary. You want to check my shape on, let’s do push-ups together, let’s run, let’s do whatever you want to do, let’s take an IQ test. . . . Look, fat . . .”
Or the brush-up with the young woman in New Hampshire: “You ever been to a caucus? No, you haven’t. You’re a lying, dog-faced pony soldier.”
We are told all this is baked into the Good Ol’ Joe from Scranton persona, and his supporters no more care than the MAGA audiences do when it comes to Trump’s tweets and disparaging epithets.
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I'm keeping my focus on the VP selection ...that will speak volumes about the game plan of the Deep State. This amplification of the Coronavirus should have been expected. James Carvel said it best, "it's the ECONOMY, stupid". It's Jacksonian. The biggest plank in Trump's reelection campaign is ...or was the economy.
In a sense, Sanders may have just been brought to Robespierre's guillotine (politically not literally) for his madness
Looking from afar it seems to me that the Democrats have lost the plot. However, given the revelations that continue to surface about American politics and the machiavellian intricacies employed by the wealthy elite to influence, corrupt or otherwise marginalise and deny the ordinary voter a voice in government, I would ask if Biden can be replaced by Hilary at the last moment under your system. It would certainly be keeping well within the "it's my turn" and "I won the popular vote" scenario and any number of plausible gambits from the "devastating" confessions by Bill recently publicised, to her experience and understanding of the White House, having an ex-president as a presidential "wife", experience as Secretary of State and the current kinder, gentler, female gender profile over the rude, quixotic incumbent. It would also seem a natural move for the democrats as Joe continues to show problems with both memory and capability to replace him denying Trump a target until the last moment. I am not well enough acquainted with your system to see if my " conspiracy theory" is even possible, but I think that if it were that is what the end play may well be. Your thoughts. Cheers
Biden is just another socialist as far as I'm concerned. Due to his eroding mental state, I also find him dangerous. We cannot imagine him with his hand on the nuclear football while thinking it's the TV remote.
Victor Davis Hansen is a conductor on the Double Standard Express.