https://amgreatness.com/2021/03/23/whos-actually-running-this-thing/Who’s Actually Running This Thing?We have achieved what Buckley greatly feared: Not government by the first 2000 names in the Boston phonebook, but government by the faculty of Harvard. This is what an oligarchy looks like.March 23, 2021
Dan Gelernter
We’ve seen the headlines: Biden holding migrant children in cages. Biden crafts plan to raise taxes. Biden does this, Biden does that. But who is actually doing it?
No one believes that Biden is actually president. Forget for a moment the questions about the election itself, and focus on the man: Biden can’t speak coherently, can’t remember the names of his cabinet members, can’t be trusted to give a live press conference. He says he’s willing to take questions and they turn his feed off. So he’s not in charge. He’s not running the show. He’s not president. Who is?
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If anyone in Washington right now does approximate, in substance, the president of the United States, it is not Biden, nor is it even Kamala Harris. It is whoever is in charge of Biden’s agenda. We don’t know this person’s name, of course, but we know he exists—the anonymous figure choosing who Biden sees and to whom he talks, and who controls where Biden goes. This person, whoever he may be, is our president. Hollywood used to make movies about this sort of thing, back when the idea of a government not actually of the people was supposed to be frightening.
And the elites—the nation’s wealthiest, most influential, most self-satisfied and superior people—get to be the proxy cabinet. They are going to show us just how smart they are by doing everything they’ve ever wanted to do. They’ll raise taxes and stop Keystone XL and let men compete on women’s sports teams and invite China to build our wireless infrastructure. They’ll make sure pregnant women can fly fighter jets. They’ll make you register your guns so it will be easier to confiscate them during the second Biden Administration. It’s going to be great.
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When the Left tries to claim there’s no such thing as gender, tell them they’re being stupid. When they want you to admit that a cartoon character is a rapist, tell them they’re acting like idiots. When they tell you that you’ve only succeeded because of your skin color, tell them to go jump in a lake. Because it is not enough for a leftist to get everyone following his commands: Everyone must admit that the commands are wise and good and correct. Anything short of that—even total obedience combined with a wry witticism—is unacceptable. This, incidentally, is why Solzhenitsyn was pulled off a front-line artillery unit fighting the Nazis and sent to prison for eight years for telling a joke about Stalin. It is why Stalin insisted that every accused man confess his guilt before being executed. You may wonder, if they planned to shoot the prisoner anyway, why did he have to admit he was wrong? To the Soviets, the admission mattered more than anything.The Left is simply a child that wants to be treated like an adult. An infant who screams and stamps his foot and shouts “I’m in charge now, take me seriously!†Don’t.
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