The Democratic Party leadership has been infected by a death wish or infiltrated by agents of President Putin with the mission of ensuring Donald Trump’s victory in November.
Why? Think about it.
What is the biggest issue in American politics this summer? Joe Biden’s age and his fitness for a second term, an issue on which 80 percent of Americans have already concluded he is unfit.
And what is the issue that continues to haunt Democrats, their inability to come to a firm conclusion (should he go or should he stay?) that will ensure he remains the focus of every media outlet and every news cycle? Well, the president’s fitness to run again and serve another four years, of course.
Democrats are doing Trump’s work.
What is the biggest issue in American politics this summer? Joe Biden’s age and his fitness for a second term, an issue on which 80 percent of Americans have already concluded he is unfit.
To continue to talk about the one issue that has more chance of losing you the White House than any other — and then fail to come to a definitive opinion on the matter — is either a form of collective insanity or a sign that enemy conspirators have infiltrated your inner circle.
Since I offer the second explanation only to elicit a smile, I am left with the conclusion that the Democrats really are in the grip of an epidemic of self-destruction.
Trump is aware of this. It explains why he has remained as quiet as he has been since last month’s presidential debate, the scene of a historic slow-motion car crash for Biden from which he has yet to recover. Don’t interrupt your opponent when he is making all the mistakes.
Trump even postponed announcing his choice of running mate.
Why feed the media alternative headlines when Democrats are generating their own damaging frenzy? Even the most servile Democratic media outlets are feasting on Biden.
Trump has long wanted to take on Biden in the 2024 presidential race. He sees him as an easy winner (and that was before Democrats started doing Trump’s work for him).
When House Republicans were trying to impeach Biden earlier this year, they told me that Trump called them and told them to stand down. The clear message: Don’t do anything that would jeopardize Biden’s chances of being the Democratic nominee.
Trump has long wanted to take on Biden in the 2024 presidential race. He sees him as an easy winner (and that was before Democrats started doing Trump’s work for him).
Biden’s tenacity in digging in and sticking to the rebel cause suits Trump like a glove. The trickle of defectors joining the rebel cause continues, but it is still far from the tsunami needed to force the president to give up running again.
On Tuesday, a meeting of House Democrats failed to get Biden to stay in the race — or to get him to leave. After the meeting, Mikie Sherrill (New Jersey) became the seventh House Democrat to call on Biden to step aside. Pat Ryan, whose New York district could fall to Republicans, became the eighth today. That’s still not enough of a critical mass to force Biden off the ticket.
However, the dissent between the parties continues. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) has not called on Biden to step aside, but predicted that Trump “could win by a landslide,” which is to say he should step aside.
That great Hollywood sage, George Clooney, wrote an article in the New York Times (where else?) urging his old friend Joe to resign, after the ritual homage (required of all Democratic apostates) to what a wonderful president he has been.
“We’re not going to win” with Biden at the helm, he concludes, something he did not share with the Democratic donor class just a few weeks ago, when he held a large fundraiser in Los Angeles.
Perhaps the most damaging intervention came from former House Speaker and fellow gerontocrat Nancy Pelosi, who told MSNBC’s Morning Joe (the president’s breakfast fan club) that Biden could still reconsider his candidacy, but that he was running out of time to do so.
He later walked back his comments, saying he was not suggesting Biden should reconsider his stance. But given that the president has been steadfast in his stance, it is difficult to understand what else he meant.
Just when things couldn’t get any better for Trump, several prominent Democrats began insisting that if Biden throws in the towel, the crown should automatically fall to Vice President Kamala Harris.
That has angered other Democrats who think she is as much of a liability as Biden and want an open convention in Chicago next month to choose a new nominee.
Harris’ supporters insisted that it would be unconscionable for Democrats to overlook a black woman in favor of a white man, or even a white woman. The party has thus become a prisoner of its own obsession with identity politics, in which ability and competence take a backseat to race and gender.
But Harris’s supporters, who in some cases acted with tacit support, amused Trump. If there is one candidate he is even more certain of beating than Biden, it is Harris.
Republicans arrive at their convention in Milwaukee this weekend in top form, courtesy of Democrats.
Trump will be the master of whatever he sets his mind to, his candidacy is not in doubt. His hostile takeover of the Republican Party is complete. The convention will produce its own headlines when he reveals his choice for running mate.
The latest polls give him a comfortable lead in five of the seven swing states. Only two (Wisconsin and Michigan) are in contention. Trump has a five-point lead in Pennsylvania. There is no path back to the White House for Scranton Joe that doesn’t go through the Keystone State.
A Trump insider told me that the former president has been heard joking in recent days that he wondered if the convention could be postponed by a week.
Why would he want to be asked that? To give the Democrats another week to stew in their own juice, was the reply.
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