Democrats’ Cirque De Absurdite
I & I Editorial Board
When it was time to call the candidates on stage for Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate, did one of the moderators yell “send in the clowns?†If not, someone should have. What a bunch of buffoons.
We don’t use that word lightly. One definition of buffoon is “a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior.†That’s a description that fits every candidate on the stage. Each was hilariously solicitous and comically transparent.
Almost before the game show applause had settled, Beto O’Rourke launched into a juvenile Spanish-language hustle that left Sen. Cory Booker wide-eyed and most everyone else rolling their eyes.
Moments later, Booker found common ground with Friedrich Engels, grousing about how the economy wasn’t working for everyone, a common thread throughout the “debate.†Still later, he too resorted to Spanish, competing with O’Rourke to show he is the most Hispanic candidate, even more Hispanic than someone named Castro and far more Hispanic than the Irish guy.
A few beats after O’Rourke’s first foreign-language outburst, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the media’s pre-selected winner, made the brave declaration she wanted to return government to the people — while pointing at herself. Well done, Senator. Now we know who she wants to vest the power of government in.
In English, former Obama Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro resorted, to no one’s surprise, to identity politics, insisting the country “pass†— hey, how about taking a remedial class in constitutional process before running for president — the Equal Rights Amendment.
When it was her time to speak, Tulsi Gabbard, one of two congressional representatives from Hawaii, looked as if she was going to be the only serious person on the stage — then she yammered on about a “green economy†and “good-paying jobs,†empty Democratic talking points without depth designed to elicit applause.
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