The Democratic Party is in disarray. After years of shamelessly lying about Joe Biden’s apparent mental decline, they are now being forced to face the reality that the emperor is losing his mind.
So they’re going to replace him, that’s it. Very simple, very easy.
That’s really ridiculous.
The reality is much more complicated. The people in charge (as Axios puts it) Call now The Democratic camp, dubbed the “Biden oligarchy,” is so convinced they can lose that even if they wanted to give up power and money, they couldn’t just switch it around, which would undermine the campaign’s entire media strategy.
First, Biden campaign activists I am not convinced by the collapse of the media. They still truly believe they have the best chance of beating former President Donald Trump in November.
“But what about California Governor Gavin Newsom?” critics might cry. But the White House is more clearly cognizant of the reality of its party’s ties to Kamala Harris: In its search for a capable, senior Black woman willing to serve as vice president in 2020, it found a conspiracy theorist and habitual loser from Georgia and a Californian who called Biden a racist and finished last in the party’s primaries.
Political parties would have to pay the full amount, effectively undermining their ad buying strategies.
Democrats chose the latter. The deal wasn’t signed in blood, but it was sealed by racial politics at the heart of the modern Democratic Party. Are Democrats “going to refuse to nominate the first woman, the first Black American, and the first South Asian American elected to the vice presidency?” ask longtime Washington journalists Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei. “That’s tough.”
But even the people who are being paid to like Kamala Harris don’t like her, and for all the fuss about “peacefully living corpses,” no one thinks she stands a good chance of winning.
Second, power (and money). The Bidens are not the Clintons. They haven’t traded power for money for a quarter century. Joe doesn’t have millions of dollars in speaking fees in his future, his books aren’t selling, his surviving son is facing prison, and resigning in shame, even if disguised as “serving his country,” doesn’t change these realities.
Of course, family members aren’t the only ones making money from this operation. Do the gatekeepers who’ve sneered at Harris for four years really think she’ll keep them employed? And in some fantasyland scenario, do ad buyers think Newsom won’t bring his own team of loyal supporters with him?
This brings us to the third issue: money.Campaigns can’t easily transfer funds to other candidates: The Federal Election Commission limits transfers of funds between campaigns to $2,000.
Sure, the Biden campaign could transfer it to the Democratic National Committee (not a PAC), but only the campaign is eligible for the minimum ad bids, and the party would have to pay in full, essentially gutting its ad-buying strategy.
Of course, new fancy candidates can raise a lot of money right away, but they’re still handicapped: An individual donor can give $3,300 to a candidate in the primary and then another $3,300 in the general election, but without a primary, that amount remains very low.
So should Democrats just let the Biden campaign manage the money and let Biden spend it on advertising for the new candidate? Maybe. But that means it’s their imagined white knight (or black or South Asian) piggy bank that’s managed by a dumped lover. And then you run into the problem of the $32,392,200 coordinating expenditures cap. Reality is fun.
In effect, this strategy means relying almost entirely on outside groups to stay in power and dominate the airwaves, with no input from the camp. Not an ideal situation.
Remember: it was the Democrats who made this deal. In fact, they did both: In 2020, the only serious candidate not calling for open borders or defunding the police was a 78-year-old white man whose voice already veered between a hoarse whisper and an old-man yell, so they smeared Harris on cupcakes, relied on the corporate media to sell them to the public, and lived comfortably and warmly for a few years in their own little bubble.
Thursday night saw their snow globes shaken, leaving many panicked Democrats pinning their hopes on further fantasies. Reality is just around the corner.
Axios: Behind the Curtain: The Biden Oligarchy Determines Our Fate
audience: Democrats will have a hard time unseating Joe Biden
Glenn Beck: Joe Biden continues to refinance his mortgage
Sprinter: Top 5 Democratic Presidential Candidates
Blaze News: What will Biden’s successor be (and who’s in the running)?
Federalist:Can Democrats just dump Biden and move on? It’s not that simple.
Transom: The Democrats created this hell for themselves.
Blaze News: Bill Ackman urges people to support President Trump, calls Newsom a ‘disaster’
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In other news
Big Friday (and Monday) at the Supreme Court
Monday marks the final day for the Supreme Court to release its rulings, meaning we’ll get more information about the future of Trump’s trial, particularly regarding whether the former president’s actions regarding election fraud and some of his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, will be considered formal actions that qualify him for immunity from prosecution.
Friday was also a big day for the Supreme Court, which delivered its biggest blow to the administrative state in decades. Chevron The 6-3 vote set a precedent.
For those of you who don’t know, this 40-year-old doctrine allowed federal agencies to interpret broad and vague Congressional statutes in their own way and make them their own laws. It was a terrible precedent, but it’s finally coming to an end.
But that’s not all! That same morning, the court ruled that the federal government can’t use Enron’s old bookkeeping methods to keep putting the J6 burglars in prison for years. This ruling doesn’t get them free, but it does give them a leg up in an apparently liberal DC court. This is the first big rebuke to the Department of Justice’s extremely heavy-handed abuse of power, and that’s good news. But don’t think this is the end of this sordid story.
Oh, and cities and towns no longer have to provide free housing to the homeless in order to enforce public camping rules. This seems basic enough, but California’s 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has long held that to crack down on the vagrants, drug addicts, and mentally ill on our streets and in public parks, we need to build shelters to house them all. This is patently insane to the average person, and the Supreme Court agreed. So did Gavin Newsom, whose national political future will still have to come to terms with the dystopian disaster that California has fallen into.
Federalist: Supreme Court Dealing a Blow to the Administrative State
