By freshidea @Adobe Stock
Is Donald Trump a Victim or a Demagogue
During the Iowa debates last night, two candidates reportedly pummeled one another by repeatedly accusing the other of lying. With Donald Trump not present, DeSantis and Haley were left “slashing at each other.” The overriding tone of the debate, declares the WSJ, was one of “small-time sniping, an unpleasant barrage of canned attacks that the candidates seemed desperate to unleash.”
Th Great Election Freak Out
In the Spectator, Freddy Gray reports: Joe Biden’s alarming numbers: the president’s job approval just dipped below 40% again.
From Joe Biden: “If Trump wasn’t running, I’m not sure I’d be running.”
Invoking George Washington
In “Wonder Land,” the WSJ’s Daniel Henninger increasingly wonders if readers are tired of hearing Joe Biden say, “our democracy”.’
Biden stood Saturday near Valley Forge, Pa., invoking George Washington to argue that Donald Trump is on the brink of overturning an American democratic order that has survived since 1789.
The word “democracy” appears in Mr. Biden’s speech almost as many times as its more than 40 nearby references to “Trump.”
Mr. Henninger does not complain about Donald Trump destroying our democracy, Rather, the “Wonder Land” writer blames Trump for destroying our language.
Mr. Trump popularized the vocabulary of the local bar stool in our politics, and this week’s speeches by the incumbent president show that the Trump compulsion to way-over-the-top language has rubbed off on Mr. Biden.
This from a Sitting President
The sitting president raised the specter of an American democracy that “falls.”
According to Joe Biden “(Trump is) willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power.”
Biden has used the word democracy almost as many times as he refers to Trump. (40 odd times).
After the sitting president raised the specter of an American democracy that “falls.,” Mr Henninger suggests that we all “bring this flight back to earth.”
Mr. Biden is no better than tied in polls against the dictator-in-waiting he describes in this speech is a poor commentary on the status of his presidency. Nor did he help himself as a candidate days later at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., in a campaign speech that was halting, slurred and difficult to follow.
Joe Biden has decided his re-election turns on two events:
- The Capitol riot of 6 Jan. 2021
- Trump’s efforts to reverse the 2020 presidential election results in several states. Mr. Biden intends to posit these two events as a threat, three years later, to “our democracy.”
According to Joe Biden, the former president is intent on seizing power—“the alternative to democracy is dictatorship.” A “glum citizen” (Trump) was seated in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, listening to three appellate judges express doubts about his claims of unfettered presidential immunity for anything he did or said on 6 Jan. This and other Trump controversies will be adjudicated by nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who in the world thinks Mr. Trump is destroying our democracy? Not Mr. Henninger, who does hold Donald Trump responsible for destroying our language.
Mr. Trump popularized the vocabulary of the local bar stool in our politics, and this week’s speeches by the incumbent president show that the Trump compulsion to way-over-the-top language has rubbed off on Mr. Biden.
An Associated Press/NORC poll last month said 62% of Americans believe U.S. democracy could be at risk in the November election.
A broader idea behind the “our democracy” complaint is that something called the will of the people is being thwarted. In his Valley Forge speech Mr. Biden says, “The alternative to democracy is dictatorship—the rule of one, not the rule of ‘We the People.’ ” After his D.C. court appearance Tuesday, Mr. Trump sent out a fundraising email that says in November “the PEOPLE of our country vote out the tyrants.”
Tighten your door bolts when politicians start putting the people’s will in motion.
Unmentioned in Mr. Biden’s speech is that what really worried George Washington was unrestrained partisan intensity. Today we’d call it democracy on steroids.
The presidential primary system begins Monday, another part of our democracy that remains intact, even if the minds of our presumed leaders aren’t quite.
As always, it falls to America’s voters to sort it out. They the people don’t need to be reminded of that.
It makes one wonder, with a Biden/Trump rematch, which candidate will make himself more odious in November?
The presidential primary system begins Monday, another part of our democracy that remains intact, even if the minds of our presumed leaders aren’t quite.
As always, it falls to America’s voters to sort it out. They the people don’t need to be reminded of that.
The presidential primary system begins Monday, Mr. Henninger reminds readers.
(Which is) another part of our democracy that remains intact, even if the minds of our presumed leaders aren’t quite.
As always, it falls to America’s voters to sort it out. They the people don’t need to be reminded of that.
