No Matter Who Wins On Tuesday, There Will Be No ‘Return To Normalcy’
October 30, 2020
John Daniel Davidson Excerpt:
Packing the U.S. Supreme Court is not normal. Creating new states as a way to pack the Senate is not normal. Abolishing the Electoral College is not normal. Establishing a South African-style “Truth and Reconciliation Commission†is not normal. Codifying Roe v. Wade into law and forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions is not normal. A ban on fracking—or, as Biden likes to put it, “transitioning out of fossil fuelsâ€â€”is not normal. Passing any version of the Green New Deal is not normal. Raising the top income tax rate to a level not seen since the Carter administration is not normal.
These things are radical, and Democrats broadly support all of them. Biden has been disingenuously cagey about some of his plans, like whether he would try to pack the Supreme Court, but often he has been candid about going along with the leftward lurch of his party, like his abrupt about-face on taxpayer funding for abortions.
Part of Biden’s schtick has been to style himself a pragmatist and a moderate—a working-class Catholic kid from Scranton, Obama’s steady right-hand man, no malarkey! His defensiveness about the riots this summer is a case in point. In a speech back in August, after months of widespread rioting with hardly a peep from Democratic leaders, Biden said, “Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters? Really?â€
It was a weak attempt to hide the plain truth: Biden and Democrats were hesitant to criticize anything about the protests or the Black Lives Matter movement because that is their party’s base now. Any law-and-order posturing on Biden’s part was a feeble attempt to hide a radical agenda espoused by BLM and left-wing Democrats, far to the left of Biden’s old boss and alien to whatever moderate pragmatism Biden once espoused. You Can’t Repeat the Past
You may read the following phrase elsewhere in the days to come.
But I was the first one to use it, some months ago:
"AFTER TRUMP, THE DELUGE.'
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A demurral, as you most certainly were NOT the first to coin this phrase.
Following a disastrous Defeat at Rossbach in 1757, Louis XV of France,
one of its last Bourbon Monarch's, uttered the phrase:
"After me, the deluge."