Democrats need to stop carrying the Bidens’ water writes New York Times columnist Frank Bruni. He notes that many Liberals look at talk about Joe Biden as supporting their hated MAGA enemies.
“Observe that it’s one thing — a noble, beautiful thing — for him to give steadfast support and unconditional love to his profoundly troubled son, but that it’s another for that son to attend a state dinner days after he had cut a deal with federal prosecutors on tax and gun charges. Many of your liberal acquaintances will shush and shame you: Speak no ill of Joe Biden! That’s an unaffordable luxury. You’re playing into his MAGA adversaries’ hands,” Bruni writes.
He notes that many Liberals live in a bubble that refuses to acknowledge Biden’s frailty or that he is not what he once was. In Bruni’s view, they refuse to see that the emperor has no clothes and that it might be a good idea for Democrats to find someone younger and more capable than their party’s elder statesman.
“You’ll be asked: What do Hunter Biden and diminished vim matter next to the menace of Donald Trump and a Republican Party in his lawless, nihilistic thrall? That’s a fair question — to a point. But past that point, it’s dishonest and dangerous,” Bruni writes.
Democrats Have Become Elitists Unwilling to Handle the Truth
In Bruni’s opinion, American politicians, including Joe Biden, have serious complexities that need to be dealt with all of their warts and issues. He believes that many Democrats can’t handle the fact Joe Biden is not who his handlers want the world to think he is; consequently, they want to look away and keep everyone else from looking at the reality.
“It also plays into the portrait of Democrats as elitists who decide what people should and shouldn’t be exposed to — what they can and can’t handle. How’s that a winning look?” Bruni asks.
Democrats Need Intellectual Honesty
Bruni is not a MAGA supporter by any means or imagination. He’s been a longtime Liberal columnist for the Times, but he asks Democrats to have the same intellectual honesty about the Bidens that many Republicans are having about Donald Trump.
“I believe that a victory by any Republican who has indulged, parroted or promoted Trump’s fictions and assaults on democratic norms would also be a disaster. His abettors have shown their colors and disqualified themselves. And I’ve said that — and will continue to say that — repeatedly,” Bruni says.
“I also believe that Biden has been a good president at a very difficult time, and that even if he’s not near peak vigor, we’d be much, much better served by the renewal of his White House lease than by a new tenant in the form of Trump or one of his de facto accomplices.
Bruni continues: “Biden’s second term, like his first, would be about more than the man himself. It would be about a whole team, a set of principles, a fundamental decency, a thread of continuity, an investment in important institutions.”
John Rossomando is a defense and counterterrorism analyst and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting.
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