This Saturday, Joe Biden was thrown under the bus. At least, according to The Nation (a far-left reg which helps to set the tone for the Democrat base), I am sorry to say so. And while this isn’t the first hint that Biden isn’t the choice in 2024, this may be the first public call from a major outlet to follow through on tossing him overboard.
Jeet Heer wrote the hot take, and here’s some of what he had to say.
Some of these ideas are certainly risky because they could be rebuffed by Republicans and GOP-appointed judges. And following these actions would require even more radicalism in the future: If Biden leased out land to abortion clinics on federal land, he’d have to be prepared to give blanket preemptive pardons to doctors and patients in case they are charged in the future.
These radical ideas, even though they have risks, would also be a great benefit. They would prove that reproductive rights matter, are worth fighting for and receive the support of the entire Democratic Party. They would turn Biden into an active president and leader for a righteous cause.
Biden is reluctant to engage in fighting because it involves them. He’s a conciliator, not a combatant. He is a great bipartisan. The man who brings people together from opposing camps. Biden launched his 2019 political campaign under the pretext that Donald Trump’s polarization, racism and destabilization of the United States had been dangerously damaging. Biden believed he was the one who could mend those wounds. As president, his goal is to bring down the temperature, end partisan strife, and return the USA to pre-Trumpian elite comity.
To be quite clear, Heer believes Biden ever tried to lower the country’s temperature. Heer has been doing the opposite and has caused widespread division, while also pursuing policies which do severe harm to ordinary Americans.
His whole campaign purpose was to shout about Charlottesville repeatedly, lie and suggest that the opposition supports what happened. After taking office, he moved to govern as the most far-left president in history, helping to crush America’s expanding energy market. Even his rhetoric has devolved into simply calling half the country “Ultra MAGA” while claiming they want to arrest women for crossing state lines. Biden crossed the lines Barack Obama had never imagined.
Also, it is ridiculous to think that the president of the United States is any kind of moderate peacemaker. Yet, I don’t doubt that Heer and the rest of the Democrat base see him that way. Why? Because when you are that radical, even the radicals don’t appear to be radicals.
Joe Biden does not represent Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt. He’s a placeholder president, someone whose main historical task was to defeat Trump. That worthy mission has been accomplished—and now Biden wants to pretend that Trump never happened. The same reactionary politics which created Trump remain, and are even more dangerous because they have been institutionalized by the courts as well as the main stream of the GOP. Biden is inadequately equipped to face the challenges of today and the future.
For short-term political gains, Biden won’t overthrow any American institution.
That’s really what these complaints boil down to. Biden gave the people everything within the legal limits, sometimes even outside of them, until they got slapped. What he hasn’t done is stump for the destruction, if not total abolishment, of the Supreme Court. Biden, for showing such basic restraint is being called by his own party weak and unwillingly to do the necessary.
Is that going to lead to him being ousted as 2024 Presidential Candidate for the Democrat Party. Probably not, if for no other reason than he’s unlikely to run again due to his clear mental decline. He will therefore not need to be thrown out.
Still, Heer’s editorial offers a lesson in how far the left has fallen from reality. While screaming about “democracy,” they seek to exact complete power over its institutions, no matter what it takes. Biden might be the last generation that isn’t willing to risk it all, even though he may have embraced radicalism. This should be a concern for everyone who wants to move forward. People like Alexandria OcasioCortez (who Heer praises in his article) have no such limits.
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