The Hypocrisy Variant
If not for double standards, the Democrats would have no standards at all.
by David Catron
August 9, 2021, 10:19 PM
A contagion is ravaging the Democratic Party, destroying the credibility of its leaders and scaring away its supporters. It is the deadly Hypocrisy Variant. The most prominent Democratic carriers of this infectious strain of duplicity are former President Barack Obama, President Joe Biden, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Less significant Democrats who have tested positive for the Hypocrisy Variant are Rep. Cory Bush (D-Mo.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and the Texas Democrats who fled their state in order to hobble the democratic process.
The Hypocrisy Variant is a new mutation of a recurring Democratic infection, but the number of cases has spiked in recent weeks, reaching its peak at former President Barack Obama’s lavish birthday bash last weekend. Photos of the fête taken and posted on the web by Rapper Trap Beckham make it all too clear that the masking and social distancing rules that Obama has encouraged the hoi polloi to follow don’t apply to him or any of the arrivistes with whom he now regularly mingles. This party would have unquestionably been labeled a “reckless superspreader event” by the media and every Democrat named above had it been held by Donald Trump. Oddly, the silence about Obama’s star-studded soirée has been deafening.
Obama is hardly the only Democrat carrier of the Hypocrisy Variant, of course. President Biden is a kind of one-man superspreader. During last year’s presidential campaign, Biden routinely denounced then-President Trump as a lawless authoritarian who had consistently exceeded his constitutional authority. This claim was never accompanied by convincing evidence, but it was parroted by the media. It goes without saying that as soon as Biden was installed in the White House, he began issuing constitutionally suspect executive orders as fast as his lackeys could shove them under his nose. His most lawless act thus far has been the renewal of the unconstitutional eviction moratorium. As legal scholar Jonathan Turley writes:
Biden is openly flouting the Constitution with a knowingly invalid extension of the eviction moratorium — and some law professors and advocates on the left are cheering him for it … Biden was hailed for his extra-constitutional commitment to social justice. One liberal commentator declared that “with one small action, Biden reveals himself as a better leader than Trump.” That “small action” was violating the Constitution — the document he swore to uphold, “so help me God,” at his inaugural. Nevertheless, gutting the rule of law is somehow now seen as “a sign of leadership in action.”
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