The Trumpublican Party
No matter the final word on the election, the “blue-collar billionaire†isn’t going away anytime soon.
by Rick Marschall
November 11, 2020, 12:00 AM
In a proper inaugural ceremony next January 20, absent artifice and minus political cliches, Joe Biden would be called to stand and put his hand on the Bible, and assisted in so doing, and then would start to repeat the phrases prompted by the Chief Justice.
He would begin, “I, Joe Non-Trump, do solemnly swear … â€
That persona is essentially what got him elected — that is, he was the Non-Trump. What was reckoned to be creeping dementia — a strategy to keep Joe in a closet with the lights out — might have been ordered by a clever Democrat psy-op director who actually learned a lesson from the Hillary campaign.
Trump did not merely “give voice†to disaffected. He was mad as hell too, and became a believable comrade-in-arms.
As with Hillary Clinton’s complaints when HillaryCare spectacularly failed in the 1990s that “if more people knew its details it would have passed,†the poison pill then, and in her presidential campaign, was precisely the opposite. Too many people began in fact to know very well what they risked. It was not even Hillary Fatigue; it was the acceleration of Hillary Disgust. Familiarity still can breed contempt.
Therefore Joe the phantom cipher would be more successful than Joe the stationary target and, yes, gaffe machine. Even with Johnny Carson’s successors never calling out a Biden Blunder, the handlers imposed a gag order. After stumbling through familiar primary humiliations — a quadrennial sport of the Delaware Dolt — he was not only the Last Man Standing but, in advance of the presidential balloting, a man who at least could be voted the Most Likely to Survive.
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