the paradox of a Democratic run against “Trump”ism
The Biden re-election is some combination a three legged stooll of big D Democracy, Abortion, and Rust Belt factories. Those are the themes he and his lackeys will hammer as best they can. But I can see some of the frissure mounting on getting the messaging together — MSNBC, cable news mouthpiece of the Democratic Party, is promoting the new Lynn Cheney book to the hilt, and covering Abortion cases in the manner of messaging how, say, the far right is prosecuting women in Texas. It is the headache that a Democrat running against a second Trump term needs to simultaneously run a normal campaign — hit the Democratic Party bullet points on Abortion and Economics — while highlighting the perils of “Trumpism” — a thing that has the problem that so many Democratic voters conflate the two anyways or expand the definition of “Trumpism” to include their objections over long standing Republican party goals. So. Where does Cheney for in the mix? And when discussing the travails on the election front, the problem comes in that in hammering the policy isdues, a socially conservative or even moderate factory worker can look at the race and make the presumption that we are dealing with the same partisan dealings we have always dealt with, and judge it in the same manner they always have. The problem on that which is really at stake in the name of “Trump”ism — is “being against” is not enough of a message, and in the terrain of politics there is always enough in “both siderism” (even when there is no equivalence) to blow up dirt to obfuscate. Is George Santos fabricator of a life story? Wow! You should check out Joseph Biden circa 1987!
Let us play the game the National Review plays with this here and see if we can spot the problem.
In the interim, the Biden Justice Department commenced a scorched-earth investigation aimed at promoting the Democratic Party storyline — elucidated by the House Democrats’ “Incitement of Insurrection” impeachment article against Trump — that American democracy was besieged by hordes of white-supremacist domestic terrorists (i.e., Trump supporters or, as President Biden and other Democrats put it, “MAGA Republicans”). Obviously, all Americans should support the prosecution of the people who violently attacked police and forced their way into the Capitol. In the event, however, the Biden Justice Department prosecuted hundreds of people on trifling misdemeanor offenses that would never have been charged in normal cases untainted by partisan politics.
We then have a comparison with the unrest during the Floyd demonstrations, which to be sure — they did prosecute bad actors. And they did let low-level rioters at the January 6th off (I can cite the head of “Walk Away” as an example). But even if we suppose a mis-balance and reticence to label yahoos for the cause of social justice and drag a wider tent for in levelling causes rightward — we got a snag right about here:
Obviously, all Americans should support the prosecution of the people who violently attacked police and forced their way into the Capitol.
Donald Trump opens campaign events with a call out to the imprisoned “patriots” — the people at that January 6 riot who violently attacked police and forced their way into the Capitol — a suggesting that he will pardon them. So. Donald Trump disagrees with this “obvious” statement.