The Curtains Are Drawn on Biden and Europe’s Rulers
The political whirlwind that struck three continents last week suggests the world has had enough. Or rather, the people have. Because today, both America and Europe are so different from what they were a week ago, it may take a literary mind to understand it. Or as the great American writer Walter Kirn tweeted, “For interpreting what’s going on now, give me someone with a BA in English or Comp Lit who possesses a moderate knowledge of drama and theater over a Ph.D. in political science.” As a novelist and screenwriter, challenge accepted.
Biden Revealed
In the United States, five years of mass hypnosis by the mainstream media ended with a loud snap into reality. Even the most self-deceived liberals saw the President’s illusory clothes dissolve before their very eyes during a debate with his evil predecessor. In place of their vigorous dragonslayer stood a decrepit mindless zombie needing help to get off the stage. For the libs it was the ultimate Movie Moment. And they must have reacted in horror like the Navy officers at Captain Queeg’s (Humphrey Bogart) breakdown in The Caine Mutiny.
Across the Pond, the British people have also had enough — of a Conservative Party that denied or ignored everything they overwhelmingly voted it in for.
Last week’s leftwing chain reaction was a matter of survival. The mainstream press, knowing the jig was up — and that all their powers couldn’t make their once willing subjects unsee what they’d seen — had one choice. Act shocked, shocked that the “Lincolnian” Joe Biden was a babbling empty shell. Then they let him have it. (READ MORE from Lou Aguilar: Biden Voters Get the Red Pill)
As did their masters, the Democrats, their formerly unassailable shield-wall broken by an irresistible enemy — the truth. They split into two factions last week, those insisting that Biden must go and those defending him, at least until the next phase. For either side will switch to the other as soon as one crosses the point of no return.
After losing its protection, the White House has also come down to two opposing forces, family versus staff. Biden’s inner circle — First Lady Macbeth, son Hunter, and Biden sister Valerie Owens — comprehend that someone else must take the fall for the debate disaster. And who better than adviser Anita Dunn and her husband. Red State quotes an NBC source on the inner sanctum turmoil.
“Biden family members have discussed whether he should fire senior White House adviser Anita Dunn and her husband, Bob Bauer, who is Biden’s personal lawyer, two people familiar with the matter said.” Jill Biden will sacrifice anyone and anything to remain in power, including her husband’s health and any shred of dignity. Or as one informed source told NBC while heeding the Walter Kirn Principle, “It’s Shakespearean.”
So will be the tragic ending for Joe Biden. A lifelong mediocrity whom a web of leftist lies, corruption, pathological hatred for his opponent, and a convenient pandemic boosted into the White House after forty years of failing. He will retain just enough cognizance to know deep down, all bluster to the contrary, that he was the worst President in modern history. While the previous bearer of that title still lives. And understands enough to gladly bequeath it.
It’s Not Just Biden
Across the Pond, the British people have also had enough — of a Conservative Party that denied or ignored everything they overwhelmingly voted it in for. They knew the Labour Party was a disaster that will accelerate the downfall of their beloved country. And they deliberately let it happen last Thursday, bringing down their preferred party after 14 years in power. Nobody can explain this dichotomy any better than the brilliant Douglas Murray, as he did a month ago on Sky News Australia.
Murray eloquently cited
the extraordinary failure of the Conservative Party under now five Prime Ministers to do what the public has asked them to do. For instance, David Cameron came in in 2020 promising to bring net migration down from the hundreds of thousands each year to tens of thousands. And the latest figure is almost a million. So, the British public from disgust at the Conservative Party and its treachery and failure of any attempt to keep its mandate is going to be voted out. And in the British system there’s only one way to do that, which is to be voting in Labour.
Which they did last week. The lesson is clear for America. Be slightly to the right of the Left, and you won’t stop the Left. Heroic Argentine president Javier Milei explained this far more colorfully in a recent interview.
“You can’t give sh_t leftists a single millimeter,” said Milei. “All the collectivists, all those who put out these ideas … Because they are sh_t. If you think differently from them, they will liquidate you. That’s the point. That’s why you can’t give sh_t leftists a single millimeter. If you give them a millimeter they will use it to destroy you. You don’t negotiate with leftists. You don’t negotiate with sh_t because they will terminate you.” Milei’s ideological compadre, El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele Ortez, isn’t waiting for the Left to make its move. He just ordered the demolition of all Communist symbols and statues. (READ MORE: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)
And below the English Channel, the Continent is turning right. Last week, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Mihály Orbán launched a new conservative international alliance, “Patriots for Europe,” seeking to become the largest right-wing group in the European Parliament. It’s already succeeding. The dominant Portuguese rightist party, Chega, just joined the PFE. So did the Dutch and Spanish rightist parties. Several other countries’ leading parties are circling the group.
Which is good for Trump. After Biden shuffles out of the White House for the last time, probably before January 2025, Trump is going to have some serious international allies.
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