By Richard Porter
Biden’s out. In a bow to the reality of a looming landslide loss to Donald J. Trump, the president set the Democrat party free. But it won’t matter.
You know you had a great convention when your opponent drops out of the race three days later. In the wake of Trump’s horrifying near-death experience, Trump and his disciplined team rode the wave of relief, thankfulness and renewed affection to seize the high ground in American politics as a common-sense, non-ideological problem solver who will work to unify the country.
In his bravura convention speech, Trump mapped out his common-sense agenda of reversing progressive inanities such as open, unchecked immigration, electric car mandates, inflationary spending, lack of public safety and opening women’s sporting events to biological men, with paeans to unity, the American spirit and a government that serves the interests of ordinary people instead of ideologues:
“Our resolve is unbroken and our purpose is unchanged: to deliver a government that serves the American people better than ever before. Nothing will stop me in this mission, because our mission, because our vision, is righteous and our cause is pure … Together, we will restore vision, strength, competence and we’re going to have a thing called common sense making most of our decisions actually. It’s all common sense”
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Then, hours before Biden dropped out, Trump reiterated his centrist message at his rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan:
“The other side’s going around trying to make me sound extreme – like I’m an extremist. I’m not! I’m a person with great common sense. I’m not an extremist at all. Like some on the Right, severe Right, came up with this Project 25 … they’re very, very conservative, just like you have – they’re sort of the opposite of the radical Left, ok? You have the radical Left and the radical Right… I don’t know anything about Project 25, I don’t want to know anything about it.”
Trump 2.0 is a common-sense populist; his resilience and strength under fire has already made him a metaphor for the American spirit. His already tight connection to every-day Americans – folks who engage reality pragmatically, not as a progressive – was further cemented by his choice of a new generation’s brilliant heterodox, JD Vance, as vice president – the man who literally wrote the book on the forgotten men and women of America who comprise Trump’s base.
In the face of Trump’s disciplined drive to dominate the middle, Democrats now find themselves with neither a candidate nor a compelling message.
What’s a new candidate to do? Almost all of Biden’s policies are deeply unpopular, but no Democrat can move away from progressive pieties without losing support from the Left-wing delegates who will choose the new Democrat nominee in Chicago in just four weeks. It’s doubtful that the Democrats will continue their “danger to democracy” line of attack in light of the attempted assassination – and the absence of any popular involvement in the choice of the Democrat’s nominee.
Plus, every time the new candidate says “felon”, popular support for Trump will be refreshed by disgust over the Democrats’ inexcusable cheering-on of politicized lawfare in a desperate attempt to stop the resurrection of their opponent.
Trump’s back and better than ever, and the Democrats will do nothing but sputter.
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