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Joe Biden’s ‘Return to Normalcy’ Is Going to Be Terrible.

November 25, 2020 by  
Filed under Opinion, Politics, Weekly Columns

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(ThyBlackMan.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: He’ll 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 Trump’s 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.

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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 right’s innate evil; in which alternative news sources were treated as conspiracy outlets.

That’s the “normal” the media and Democrats wanted.

And it’s the normal they’ll apparently be pursuing. Joe 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, Biden’s national security adviser when he was vice president, most famous for the suggestion that the Iran deal was a stellar piece of negotiation (it wasn’t), will become the White House national security adviser.

Meanwhile, the media will continue to cover Joe Biden in sycophantic fashion. This week, The Washington Post ran an entire piece devoted to the wonders of the New Biden Era, titled “Washington’s 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 they’re simply high from huffing Democratic flatulence.

The old normal wasn’t good. That’s why Donald Trump was elected. It’s why Democrats nearly lost the House, and why they seem poised to not take back the Senate despite Trump’s 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 can’t control. And they’ll be just as puzzled as ever about why everyone else wasn’t as overjoyed as them about the return of the establishment Democratic swamp.

Written by Ben Shapiro

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One Response to “Joe Biden’s ‘Return to Normalcy’ Is Going to Be Terrible.”
  1. Pelvo White, Jr. says:

    Our American history relative to past virus attacks throughout the centuries have proven that our pluralistic democracy with its capitalist economic base that believes in an unequal distribution of available goods and services based on merit has the internal constitutional political structures and legal checks and balances to survive viral infections.I am simply amazed that the COVID-19 viral infection hasn\’t caused our strained political organization under the U.S. constitution to fly apart.Political disagreements between the Republican and Democratic Parties are normal within our kind of political structure.At some point or the other during our democracy both the Republican and Democratic Parties have made mistakes which have negatively effected the nation. Trump\’s political theories relative to his beginning existential nihilist authoritarianism are not good fits for our existing democracy.We are not ready to nourish Trump\’s infantile authoritarianism to its full grown dictatorship.Your arguments presented in this article are non-sequitur appraisal of the utilitarianism performance of the American Constitution and I pray they will always be.The U.S. Constitution is magnanimous enough to accommodate the disputes which may occur between political parties however we do need to develop more political regulations of the medical usages of computers ,nanotechnologies, and atom smashers which give our scientist a better view of the sub-atomic world and the development of future cures and vaccines because our scientist are not certain about the fabric of reality and what is a disease and what is not.

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