SHAPIRO: Bidens Supposed Return To Normalcy Would Be Garbage By Ben Shapiro
DailyWire.com
After spending two years avoiding serious questions about his policy preferences, his team and his prospective presidency, we now know what Joe Biden intends to do should the Electoral College, as expected, vote for him in December: Hell reopen the swamp for business. The media spent four long years suggesting that President Donald Trump was steeped in corruption, ensconced in partisanship, enmeshed in dangerous foreign policy fiascos. The media assured us that they would defend democracy from Trumps brutalities, that they would spend every waking moment fighting to prevent anyone from accepting Trumpian standards as the new normal.
Instead, the media suggested we needed to return to the old normal by which they meant a system in which the media and Democrats worked hand-in-glove together to lie to the American public about the content of policy (If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor! former President Barack Obama); in which conventional wisdom was treated as gospel truth, no matter how wrong it was (There will be no advanced and separate peace with the Arab world without the Palestinian process John Kerry on Israel); and in which cozy relationships between corporations and government were considered de rigueur.
They meant a system in which all difficult political questions were put off for another day; in which scandals were brushed off without a second thought; in which even anti-journalistic efforts by Democrats were dismissed as out of hand. It was a system in which constitutional boundaries were routinely overridden in the name of left-wing policy priorities; in which nasty rhetoric by Democrats was written off as a natural byproduct of the rights innate evil; in which alternative news sources were treated as conspiracy outlets.
Thats the normal the media and Democrats wanted.
And its the normal theyll apparently be pursuing. Biden is stacking his administration with all the members of the establishment Democratic gang. Tony Blinken, most famous for embracing the Iran deal and encouraging more American troops in Syria, will be headed to the State Department. Janet Yellen, fresh from her tenure as Federal Reserve chairwoman under Obama, will be headed to the Department of the Treasury. Jake Sullivan, Bidens national security adviser when he was vice president, most famous for the suggestion that the Iran deal was a stellar piece of negotiation (it wasnt), will become the White House national security adviser.
Meanwhile, the media will continue to cover Biden in sycophantic fashion. This week, The Washington Post ran an entire piece devoted to the wonders of the New Biden Era, titled Washingtons establishment hopes a Biden presidency will make schmoozing great again. The piece celebrated the old normal as respect for experience and expertise, as civility and bipartisan cooperation, as an opportunity to bring people back together. One wonders what sort of peyote the editorial staff of The Washington Post must be ingesting in order to remember the Obama Era so fondly; then, one quickly realizes that theyre simply high from huffing Democratic flatulence.
The old normal wasnt good. Thats why Donald Trump was elected. Its why Democrats nearly lost the House, and why they seem poised to not take back the Senate despite Trumps personal unpopularity. The old normal stank of cronyism and oligarchy, of corrupt relationships between the Democratic infrastructure and the Democrats praetorian guard in the media.
Today, the media celebrate the return of the old normal. That celebration is likely to again result in a backlash they cant control. And theyll be just as puzzled as ever about why everyone else wasnt as overjoyed as them about the return of the establishment Democratic swamp.
Poster Comment:
Garbage in, garbage out. That is very simple to understand.