I get the impression that Joe Biden and his minions are
shitting themselves. In launching his extraordinary attack on the MAGA movement
and in naming Donald Trump himself, did he think they were heading off a
re-election attempt by 'Orange Man Bad', or did he seek to deliberately provoke
such an attempt? Because, if one thing is guaranteed to get the devout to double
down it is to attack their faith.
Labelling populism as an attack on democracy, when the
espousal of populist causes is virtually the definition of a practical democracy
in action seems to me a schoolboy error. Because, in doing so you have to explain
what is so very wrong about promising to do what those who vote for you want you
to do. Is he saying that what you hope and believe is just plain wrong? Is he
telling all patriotic American citizens that they must hand the power to an
executive that has no intention of listening to its voters?
He's actually gone much further and said, out loud, that
the very people who genuinely believe themselves to be the embodiment of ’The
American Way’ are not only destroying the soul they truly think they represent,
but that they are actual fascists. Biden has effectively said that Trump is
Hitler and his voters are Nazis… which has to be just about the most fucked-up
thinking around right now. And this in a climate where many Democrats literally
believe that women can possess a penis and men can give birth.
The world is mad. Stark, staring crazy. And the lunatics
are woven right through the cloth of society even up to its highest echelons.
Something has to give. And when the shooting starts which side would you want
to be on; the side with all the guns and the determination to fight, or the
side which wants your five-year old to choose gender reassignment?
This is much the same as the situation in the UK where
the forces are the old order of family, right and wrong, against the social
engineers and academics who think they know better. To band together as a country
or to open the borders to all and sundry and pretend this does no harm? To
reward hard work and enterprise, or instead fund the ever-increasing search for
ways to be offended?
It’s not going to happen, it’s clearly not. But wouldn’t it be interesting if, by poking the bear Trump is persuaded to stand, then wins and resumes his crusade against the woke. And wouldn’t it be a spectacle if a resurgent Boris Johnson made it back into the big chair and did the same. Because being popular and even populist is not divisive at all. No, what is – literally – divisive is forever slicing and dicing society into as many atomic particle as you can conjure up via the ridiculous notion of conferring credibility on outlandish theories of race and gender and neuro-diversity and all the various fictions dreamed up by those who ultimately contribute not one damned useful thing to life on Planet Earth.
Boris isn't Trump. He is, and always was, just looking after himself. He only ended up as PM because he seen a chance to do so by saying he would implement Brexit while every other candidate wanted to rejoin the EU. Just look at what he has done.
ReplyDeleteWe need a Nigel that won't stop.
So was Trump, principally, looking out for himself. He and Johnson are both vainglorious chancers. But their role is that of the rabble rouser, waking up the somnolent masses and unsettling those who believed they had the whole thing sewn up.
DeleteDisrupters. This is what Cummings believed Johnson to be, but then again Cummings turned out to be on his own mission and was ruthless and spiteful when thwarted.
Johnson didn't 'do' anything. He couldn't. And even had Nigel Farage not stopped, he was already fatally wounded by the establishment machine long before.
This war can only be won by individuals actually sticking to their guns - you, me, everybody.
But most won't because of fear that everything they have can be taken away on a whim of government.