George Rebane
The country’s Democrats are in a wholesale, smelly-sweat panic about the upcoming election – in reality a progressives’ pandemic. They have wound up with an unelectable presidential candidate-in-waiting. No one knows this better about Bumblebrain Biden than the DNC and its congressional leadership. What to do?
The obvious answer – now that all the other years-long forays against Trump have not only come up empty, but also left the party’s faithful with maximum egg-on-face as November approaches – is to loosen their lamestream lackeys along with its local acolytes with a new narrative about the causus belli du jour, and how President Trump mishandled the country’s C19 response, thereby causing thousands of additional deaths.
I’ve covered my thoughts about the Dems’ Plan B elsewhere; here I’m putting down a few thoughts about a particular dissemination of the Left’s new pro forma narrative. But before diving into that, let’s again note for the record some of The Donald’s barnacles that almost all of his supporters acknowledge –
- He is fundamentally a no-holds-barred real estate deal maker and salesman with a limited format sales pitch that he applies to everything he promotes and opposes.
- He has a very limited and simple vocabulary, and he is not an eloquent speaker.
- His promotion MO is framed in braggadocio wherefrom supportive ‘facts’ fly out loose and fast.
- His knowledge base of things outside his business world is limited; therefore he believes ‘experts’ too easily, quotes their assertions and assessments without attribution. This then leaves him open to more accusations of “lying” when the experts’ opinions turn out false or don’t come to pass.
- He is easily piqued, and when so in front of a mic, he often puts mouth into operation before brain into gear.
- He is addicted to the limelight, and hogs it excessively to his eventual detriment.
- He succumbs to gotcha questions, and instead of responding in a Churchillian manner, he resorts to 3rd grade ripostes embellished by gratuitous, unnecessary, and often sophomoric counterattacks.
- He overly values loyalty from his teammates and underlings, and is quick to swap them out when he feels ‘betrayed’.
- He does not have a visible coterie of long-term friends (along with some other former presidents).
Given all this, President Trump has amassed an impressive set of public policies, judicial appointments, regulatory rollbacks, national security initiatives, economic accelerates, and accessibility to the office and operation of his administration. As a ‘Washington outsider’ he is loved by his constituents for upsetting established apple carts, and also hated by “the establishment” for the same. His popularity is abetted by the Dems daring not to parade their own socialist proposals (some tried and ‘died’), and only resorting to attack-by-allegations masquerading as evidence.
Mr George Boardman, Union columnist, local leftwing intellectual extraordinaire, and progressive psalmist – launched an opening volley of this narrative in the 21apr20 edition of the newspaper which purports to provide “some context for the latest installment of the Trump blame game” (here). Boardman follows the lamestream’s talking points to the letter in dunning the administration’s C19 response initiatives and accomplishments. What he and his thought leaders don’t and cannot do is supply any substantive factual critiques other than quoting a timeline of Trump’s early diminutions of the epidemic that essentially echoed the ‘experts’ at WHO and elsewhere. Instead, the Boardmans of the country now are bloviating is simply hot air that warms the hearts of the less-read and those suffering from terminal TDS. (In the 21apr20 WSJ Robert O’Brien presents a brief summary of the administration’s critical C19 decisions that are totally invisible to the Left.)
A substantive critique of the administration’s C19 response program would go beyond emotion filled allegations, and instead present a set of telling comparative measurements of how the US has fared in the C19 fight along with other first-world developed nations. And these metrics would be compiled on a per capita basis, not the gee-whiz naked numbers that so numb our innumerates. A professed journalist (of which I am NOT one) would do a bit of research and, as a minimum, compile a table such as the one below upon which to make the case dunning Trump. And we won’t even go to the slings and arrows launched at the federal government by those ignorant of Washington’s constitutional responsibility in alleviating in-country emergencies and disasters. Among our progressive pundits’ mindset, federalism is now a fallow institution of America’s governance.
Finally, since the Left’s pre-election socio-political utility is the obverse of the Right’s – i.e. they want to maximize the C19 misery and minimize the economy – as explained here, they and their spokespeople will do everything to deny and/or discount the existing levels of herd immunity that recommend a more rapid return to normalcy. As indicated in recent studies by Stanford and USC, herd immunity may already be well established in most regions of our country. (more here, here, and here)
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