Biden’s Latest Nominee Proves He Comes Not To Bring Peace, But A Sword To The Culture War
What sort of culture war calming is this? Well, it isn't any at all, and none should ever been expected by serious people. So why did anyone?
By Christopher Bedford
December 8, 2020
There’s a high-level, widespread, and persistent fantasy that a President Joe Biden will calm this country down.
High-level, in that liberal moderate writers like The Atlantic’s Yascha Mounk believe it, writing in a Nov. 7 column titled “America Won†that “Biden will assume it as a kindly grandfather who seems nostalgic for a calmer past.â€
Widespread, in that suburban Republicans longing for the days of Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney repeatedly voiced hope the culture war would end and order would return to our streets if President Donald Trump would just leave the White House.
Persistent, because no matter how many hard-left personnel and policies Biden promotes and pursues over a term as president, the century-old political pipe dream of a “Return to Normalcy†will continue, propped up by the kind of media outlets and politicians who remember President Barack Obama as a great American uniter.
Biden made just such a move to the hard left this week, naming California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as his intended secretary of Health and Human Services — the kind of position most Americans could not name before President Barack Obama nominated Secretary Kathleen Sibelius to lead the largest expansion of government power into private lives since the Great Society. It’s also the kind of position that today’s Democratic Party will use to close churches, shutter businesses, and separate families in the name of Science.
Far from playing the “kindly grandfather†of high-minded fairytales, Biden’s pick has worked hard to establish a 33-year record on abortion, where he stands for taxpayer-funded child dismemberment until the moment of birth. His disdain for the lives of the unborn extends so far as to oppose punishing those who injure a pregnant woman’s child while committing a crime, and he’s been rated 100 percent by abortion extremists.
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