Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
As he debated with himself whether to enter the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination, Joe Biden knew he had a problem.
As a senator from Delaware in the ’70s, he had bashed busing to achieve racial balance in public schools as stupid and racist.
As chairman of Senate Judiciary in the hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas in 1991, Biden had been dismissive of the charges by Anita Hill that the future justice had sexually harassed her.
In 1994, Biden had steered to passage a tough anti-crime bill that led to a dramatic increase in the prison population.
Crime went down as U.S. prisons filled up, but Biden’s bill came to be seen by many African Americans as discriminatory.
What to do? Acting on the adage that your best defense is a good offense, Biden decided to tear into President Donald Trump — for giving aid and comfort to white racists.
His announcement video began with footage of the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, highlighting Trump’s remark, after the brawl that left a female protestor dead, that there were “very fine people on both sides.”
“With those words,” said Biden, “the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. And in that moment, I realized that the threat to this nation was unlike any I had seen in my lifetime.”
Cut it out, Joe. This is just not credible. Even he cannot believe Trump had in mind the neo-Nazis and Klansman chanting, “Jews will not replace us!” when Trump said there were “fine people” on both sides.
If this were truly a road-to-Damascus moment for Biden, calling forth a new resolve to remove so morally obtuse a resident of the Oval Office, why did he have to agonize so long before getting in the race?
And was Charlottesville, a riot involving Klansmen, neo-Nazis and radicals, really a “threat to this nation” unlike any Biden had seen in a lifetime that covers the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam, the riots in 100 cities after Martin Luther King’s assassination and Sept. 11?
Even the anti-Trump media seemed skeptical. Their first interviews after Biden’s announcement were not about Charlottesville but why it took so long to call Anita Hill to apologize.
Yet there is an unstated message in the Biden video. It is this:
With the economy firing on all eight cylinders, and the drive for impeachment losing steam, a new strategy is emerging — to take Trump down by stuffing him in a box with white supremacists.
The strategy is not original. It was tried, but backfired on Hillary Clinton when she called Trump supporters “deplorables … racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic … bigots.”
This didn’t sit well with some white folks in Wisconsin, Michigan and Middle Pennsylvania.
Yet the never-Trumpers seem to think it could work this time.
After Saturday’s attack on the Passover service in Poway, California, which took a woman’s life, Trump denounced the atrocity, expressed his condolences, called Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who had been wounded, and consoled him for 15 minutes.
“Nevertheless,” wrote The Washington Post Monday in a front-page headline, “President’s words push race to fore of campaign.”
“The rise of white nationalist violence during Trump’s tenure is emerging as an issue,” said the Post, because Trump “previously played down the threat posed by white nationalism (and) … also has a long history of anti-Muslim remarks.”
The article should be taken seriously. For the Post is not only an enemy of Trump but a powerful institutional ally of the left. And during presidential campaigns, it doubles as an oppo research and attack arm of the Democratic Party.
“Violence, Hate Crimes Emerge as 2020 Issues” declared the inside headline on the Post story. The Post is not talking about customary crimes of violence in America or D.C. — robbery, rape, assault, battery, murder — a disproportionate share of which are committed by minorities of color.
The crimes that interest the Post are those committed by white males against minorities, which can be used to flesh out the picture of America that preexists in the mind of the left, if not in the real world.
Yet it does appear that issues of race, tribe and identity are becoming an obsession in our politics. This weekend, The New York Times faced charges of anti-Semitism for a cartoon of a blind Trump in a skullcap being led by a seeing-eye dog with the face of “Bibi” Netanyahu, who had a Star of David on his collar.
Recoiling under fire, the Times pulled the cartoon and apologized.
On Monday, Rev. Al Sharpton met with “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg. Subject of discussion: Reparations for slavery, which ended more than a century before the mayor was born.
“All is race,” wrote Disraeli in his novel “Tancred.” “There is no other truth.”
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
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Clown reality.
Go Pat Go!
Reminds me of the movie The Dream Team, 4 mental health patients.
Old dumb Joe represents Democrats well. Loser candidate.
In the minds of the MODERATE left, Acts of aggression that occurred in Charlottesville are justified.
In the minds of the MODERATE left , ILLEGAL Spying on the Trump is justified.
What Trump needs to do is repeatedly have railies where he mentions that Illegal Spying occurred well before he even ran for president. This will in turn result in even bigger rallies , to the point the Media has to break their BLue Wall of silence on this matter.
They are not going to stop with the fake news. They are doubling down on every lie even while the real perpetrators face grand juries and trials. They will try to portray a trial of Comey, McCabe, or Yates as a Soviet show trial with DJT as Stalin.
So what? He’s a Democrat! Consistent adherence to principle and logic is not their strong suit.
Buchanan has turned into a numbskull, talking about Klansmen and nazis at Charlottesville….that would be the cops and politicians who allowed antifa to disrupt a lawful rally..
Are they serious, not a real contender in sight. And so out of touch with the populace.
Maybe a bunch of them will be charged with crimes before the next election.
Whatever happened to Sen. JIM Webb? After the 2016 debate, he said that he had not been surrounded by that many communists since he was in Nam.
With the current field of 12 or so potential Democrat candidates, a sound mind like Jim Webb should waltz to victory over the dillusioned dancers in a primary.
Like Howard Schultz, he has no place in the loony bin.
In an attempt to appeal to black primary voters, Biden claimed it was him on the left.
Alternative caption: in an attempt to appeal to black voters, Biden showed a photo of him with his black friend:
Thanks to TBP for bring us this Buchanan article. This is one of the last free sites to get informed about the criminal Marxists who have taken over the Democratic party. I kind feel sorry for demorats, their party is about supporting freaks, deviants, globalist and is against the constitution and the founding fathers.
The DEMonS are putting forth an old serial-groper white dude with lots and lots of privilege, and who is not a faggot??
Question: Why aren’t their fucken heads exploding?
Biden’s new book:
Charlottesville demonstrated that the press will always side with communists. If presented with piles of shit they will always compliment the pile with a red star on it. They could have condemned both sides but went far out of their way to side with commies. Biden is a corrupt shit for brains and his family is a disgrace.
Don’t know if you heard Biden’s speech to the fireman’s union.. Here is compilation of some of good old Saint Vitus’s Dance himself.
I’m beyond fed up with the progressives’ hypocritical douchebaggary and their reliance on banal identity politics. Being that I, and people like me, don’t fit the mold of one of their protected groups is fine. It just means that the feelings between us are mutual. They have no use for me as I have no use for those shit-eating maggots.