June 13, 2023

“Politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”

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—Orwell

The next American presidential election year should be a potboiler — not Orwell’s 1984, but close.

The playbook on the left is pretty much a done deal.  Joseph Robinette Biden and family will be running on three planks: the war in Ukraine with Russia, the war for woke at home, and “anybody but Trump.”  Call it Putinesque abroad and grotesque at home.  More than a little ironic that Democrats, formerly the refusenik party, are now a guns-and-butter wunderkind, marching globally under rainbow flags.

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The Beltway swamp makes for bizarre literal and figurative bedfellows.  Americans may have delusions about Biden family identity, but the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin certainly do not.

On the domestic front, if DIE and kinky culture are markers, the American left is already a flaming success at the tactical and operation levels.  Democrats have already planted woke, snowflake, and freak flags in all the federal institutions that matter: State, Defense, Commerce, Education, the Intelligence Community, and Public Broadcasting.  Surely, you could do worse than think of the legacy media as closet comrades, too — allies of the freak, creep, and deep states.

Worse still, nine of ten apparatchiks and contractors in the Washington, D.C. area vote for Democrats.  Partisan civil “servants” are a huge subversive asset even when Republicans or conservatives win high office.

Just ask Donald Trump.

Biden will cultivate the snowflake, woke, and war vote in a debate-free environment, shielded by partisan legacy media prophylactics.  For a climax, speaking actuarially, Joe Robinette could also ensure that Kamala Harris succeeds him.

Clearly, Republicans are the underdogs in the run-up to 2024, or better still, “down dogs” if you are familiar with that yoga posture.  Tenured Republican Senate and House mandarins are down dog experts, posteriors ever at the ready.