Republicans Got Nothin’ and They Know It
It seems Jim Clyburn knew what he was doing after all. When the South Carolina Congressman endorsed Joe Biden just before the South Carolina primary and Biden carried the state, most progressives took it as a sign that the Democratic Party wasn’t ready for a progressive administration.
It turns out that wasn’t the point at all. The point was to nominate somebody the right wing noise machine couldn’t demonize to the childish white men who make up the GOP. Obama the Scary Black was easy. Hillary and Pelosi the Ball-Cutting Women were even easier. Bernie the Communist is who they wanted to run against. Because they have a policy program that depends on screwing their own supporters, they can’t boost their own positives, so they rely on pulling down their opponents. Demonizing Democrats is pretty much the entirety of Republican strategy, and Democrats nominated the least-scary guy.
Which makes Joe Biden their nightmare. Don’t take my word for it, that’s what a GOP House staffer told Andrew Feinberg of the British newspaper the Independent. “You’ll never get anyone to admit this on the record,” he said, “but it’s really f*cking hard to drive down the negatives of an affable, gentlemanly white man who says nice, positive things most of the time.”
That’s why Texas Sen. John Cornyn’s tweeted the other day that Biden’s Twitter feed is boring, and claimed it raised questions as to whether he is truly in charge of the executive branch. (Pure hypocrisy, by the way, because Captain Fat-Ass was mainly in charge of pushing his Diet Coke button and fucking up everything in sight).
Kurt Bardella, the Republican staffer-turned-Democrat, had the right take. “The Biden White House is not going to play into the hands of Republicans, nor should they,” he said. “And the more that [Republicans] whine about it, the more it just cements the certainty that the strategy that [Democrats have] pursued is the right one.”
It also explains why Republicans who visit our site have nothing to offer but insults, slogans and confused thinking. It’s all they’ve got.
Excellent post and critique of the gas lighted Republicans. Astonishing they complain and offer nothing in replacement of policy except we are better and give us power. These people are not republicans they are a “Gas lighted Cult’ that wants to control our government by any means necessary and it is our duty to fight them every step of the way.
Counter to his own track record, Biden is sticking closer to a progressive agenda than anybody could have predicted. With hindsight though this is purely existential for Democrats.
It’s nice that Biden could defuse the demonization somewhat, but that applies only to Biden himself and has no coattails for Congress, which Biden also needs to be successful. Obama too was able to win the WH but Democrats lost everywhere else. Red state senators continue to be supported by the constant media bubble their voters live in.
That’s history and times have changes drastictly such as many splits in the republicans. Pushing Biden’s agenda is a winning stategy and will work out for all the Democrats. The Republicans have nothing.
Propaganda works, and not just on the simple minds, at this point what was now a dull beep is a foghorn that never stops blowing. It’s not jus Fox News, there is a network of hate radio out there that is perhaps worse, add to that the extreme stupidity of QAnon and it’s a perfect storm of “brain” washing.