Democrats are talking about replacing President Joe Biden after Thursday night’s historically awful debate, but in reality they had a chance to replace Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the primary and chose to get rid of him.
That doesn’t mean they’ll stick with Biden; they’ll break the rules to replace him, just like they did in 2008. give Barack Obama won enough delegates from the swing states of Florida and Michigan to snatch the nomination from Hillary Clinton.
But they can never again claim to be “protecting democracy.” The fact is, they had the opportunity to confront Biden’s age and weakness through the democratic process, but instead operation They themselves took the initiative to protect him.
They moved up the South Carolina primary, ensuring Biden won, and they stuck to the old system of superdelegates, which meant Kennedy had to win. 70% of the votes There is a chance to win.
Former Senator Claire McCaskill, a Biden rep, I wondered. After the debate, a voice on MSNBC asked, “How did this happen?” The answer is that Democrats are rigging their own primaries to protect insiders, and have been doing so for decades.
Obama’s greatest political achievement was generating so much cultural momentum during the 2008 campaign that it became embarrassing for superdelegates to oppose the first black presidential candidate. Switched.
But Obama, who won within that system, did little to reform it. His party used superdelegates to block Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in 2016 and used WikiLeaks to expose the deep-rooted rigging of the primary election against him.
The party underwent some reforms, but in 2020, after Sanders won the first three primaries, the leadership mobilized again to undermine him and pressure other candidates to back down and support Biden as their nominee.
That is not a democracy, it is an oligarchy, or a gerontocracy. It leads to a kakistocracy (government by the people least suited to run anything), because it means that party loyalty becomes the most important criterion, not appeal to voters.
Ironically, the Republican Party has a relatively open primary process in which voters, not superdelegates, decide the winner, and while Republicans in some states tried to smooth the way for Trump to win the 2024 presidential nomination, he still had to work to get it.
What gets forgotten in the sensationalist panic over Biden’s debate defeat is that Biden didn’t simply perform poorly, but that Trump did very well: he was astute and had a command of the facts and the arguments, even as he indulged in his usual hyperbole.
Trump was preparing for Thursday’s debate, having faced off against tough opponents trying to beat him in the primary debates, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. He was ready for battle.
Biden was unprepared because his entourage had kept him in formalin and isolated from his opponents and the press, and when a serious challenge from Kennedy emerged, they used every weapon in their arsenal to thwart the primary.
They slandered him as an anti-Semite — just as they tried to do with Trump. They even hired Kennedy’s own relatives to slander him and convince him to support Biden. (I wonder if any of them regret breaking family ties after last night.)
Democrats did this to themselves and to the country, and they’re still doing it. File a lawsuit This is to remove Kennedy from the ballot in key states so that he does not steal votes from Biden.
They will come up with some alternative to Biden, perhaps California Governor Gavin Newsom, who dutifully humiliated himself in the debate by saying Biden won “in substance.”
But that would not be a “democratic” process. The last thing the Democrats want is democracy.
Joel B. Pollack is executive editor of Breitbart News. Breitbart News Sunday The show airs Sunday nights from 7 to 10 p.m. (4 to 7 p.m. ET) on SiriusXM Patriot. He recently published an e-book,Trumpian virtues: The lessons and legacy of Donald Trump’s presidency” is available on Audible. He is also the author of an e-book. Not Free or Fair: The 2020 US Presidential ElectionHe is the recipient of the Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship in 2018. Follow him on Twitter. Joel Pollack.
