I’M BAAAAACK – In my November 7, 2020 posting, I cited my extreme disappointment in American’s who voted for Joe Biden, not because he was the better man, but because of their visceral hatred for President Trump. Surely, they weren’t my dedicated readers.
I told you then that I would be ceasing publication of my near-daily postings of Kramerontheright, but would from time to time devote this space to single issues. It begins with this commentary.
Understand, that as I write this, only the media have given the presidency to Biden. No state has officially certified him as the winner, and are not required to do so until December 15, 2020.
President-Elect Biden’s Big Lie
“I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but to unify. Let the grim era of demonization in America begin to end here and now. It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric. To lower the temperature. To see each other again. To listen to each other again.
“To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy. We are not enemies.” – November 7, 2020
“He has made every effort to soothe the bitterness of our politics and attempted to unify the country,” wrote columnist Mona Charen, but those around him on the left are singing a different tune.
Former first lady Michelle Obama obviously didn’t get the talking points, as she tweeted the same day, “Let’s remember that tens of millions of people voted for the status quo, even when it meant supporting lies, hate, chaos and division.”
Also, on that same day, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez asked in her tweet, “Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future?”
Emily Abrams and Hari Sevugan, former staffers of failed presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, had already announced on November 6, 2020, the launching of the Trump Accountability Project, “to make sure anyone who took a paycheck to help Trump undermine America is held responsible for what they did.” Sevugan tweeted a warning that there will be consequences for hiring anyone who helped Trump attack American values.
The Project’s goal is to “never forget those who furthered the Trump agenda. Those who took a paycheck from the Trump Administration should not profit from their efforts to tear our democracy apart.”
It will also include members of the Republican National Committee and affiliated PACs, those who helped fund his campaigns, and … get this … anyone who voted for him in either election.
Seemingly, all of this followed a recommendation by former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich, suggesting in October that a Truth and Reconciliation Commission be formed to “erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.”
The Media is on-board. “Any Republican now promoting rejection of an election or calling to not follow the will of voters or making baseless allegations of fraud should never serve in office, join a corporate board, find a faculty position or be accepted into “polite” society. We have a list,” wrote Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin. How’s that for unity?
MSNBC regular and RINO John McCain’s 2008 campaign strategist, Steve Schmidt, said, “All of them should pay a brutal price. All of these people are complicit in the assault on American democracy.”
Views from the Right on the Biden Pledge for Unity
Not convinced, commentator Megyn Kelly was quick to call Biden’s pledge disingenuous and hypocritical, referring to his “alienation of all those who voted for President Donald Trump while claiming he can bring them to support him,” during a November 9, 2020 appearance on Newsmax.
“Let’s get real,” Kelly said, “The only reason you’re hearing Biden and all these Democrats calling for it is because they won. It’s only the person that wins that says, ‘let’s have unity.’”
“But what have they been doing for the past four years,” she adds, “they have been calling all of the Trump supporters racists, bigots, xenophobes, misogynists, sexists and transphobes.”
On November 9, 2020, the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal stated that Biden sent “an encouraging message” with his time to heal speech, and while he may have a mandate to heal partisan divisions, he lacks a mandate for the policies he promised his party because it was President Trump who won with coattails. “The Americans who voted for him mainly to defeat Mr. Trump, do not want a radical economic, political or cultural agenda,” they wrote.
Perceptively, the board noted that Biden’s “biggest obstacle to restoring more political calm and comity won’t come from the post-Trump Republicans. It will come from his own party.”
In his November 10, 2020 Wall Street Journal column, George Baker recalled that “For four years, the bulk of his Democratic Party, a good deal of the permanent government and almost the entire cultural establishment of the country has treated the Trump presidency as an occupying enemy. The members of his resistance spent four years using every lever at their disposal – bureaucracy, law enforcement, Congress, news media – to thwart, disrupt and try to bring down the duly elected president.”
The Outlook for 2021
Democrats want us to forget their past four years of dirty tricks. No way. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will be in the driver’s seat, while Speaker Nancy Pelosi faces a unity problem of her own, dealing with the radicals among her diminished numbers.
“(They) don’t want Biden to play nice with Senate Republicans despite the president-elect’s expressed desire to work across the aisle,” noted Politico, “and don’t expect much of a Kumbaya moment with members of their own party on the opposite end of the Democrat spectrum.”
“(Rep. Rashida) Tlaib and other progressive leaders are making it clear there will be no honeymoon for Joe Biden,” according to Politico.
I suspect James M. Meyer, of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, may typify the naiveite of Biden voters. In a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal, he wrote of Biden’s mandate – “Heal the nation … try to find common ground. Americans, more than anything, want to see Democrats and Republicans work together to find common ground.” There is no common ground.
The left may get their wish in removing Donald Trump from the presidency, but Biden, with his outlandish wish to “restore the nation’s soul,” won’t find it easy with some 73 million Trump supporters holding Congressional Republicans’ feet to the fire.
Democrats are floating the fanciful story of former Senator Biden having a working relationship with Senator McConnell. LOL
WATCH FOR my future commentary on issues of concern to conservatives.
WHO’S MORE PRESIDENTIAL? – President Trump placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington on Veterans’ Day in a downpour. Like the honor guards at the Tomb, who walk the grounds there in all weather, the president shunned an umbrella during his brief appearance. The media criticized him for fidgeting, and for saluting rather than placing his right hand over his heart. You will recall how President Obama demeaned a decorated Marine sergeant, having him hold an umbrella over him in a Rose Garden appearance.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
