If there is a better columnist/commentator out there than Victor Davis Hanson, please let me know who that person is. Because I have not found one.
His latest piece, titled “The Biden reelection strategy” is a case in point.
Here are the basics:
Biden is not so much an octogenarian as an unhealthy and prematurely aging 80-year-old. It is America’s irony that he is fit for almost no other job in the country other than the presidency, which apparently allows for a three-day-a-week ceremonial role while others in the shadows run the country.
So how does Biden become renominated and reelected, as polls show he is behind in almost every critical swing state on nearly every issue?
Answer: not by campaigning, not by championing his record, and especially not by doubling down on his neo-socialist and now unpopular agendas.
Instead, his campaign is focused on four other strategies to beat former President Donald Trump.
First, left-wing local, state, and federal prosecutors are tying Trump up in court on crimes that have never been seen before and will never be again after the election. All the cases are politically motivated, with many coordinated with the White House.
Second, in his fourth year, Biden is suddenly selling government favors to special-interest voting blocs, or hoping to bring short-term relief to voters at the expense of long-term damage to the nation.
Three, the left learned after 2016 that the only way to beat Trump is to change the way Americans vote.
So under the cover of the COVID-19 lockdown, the left sued in critical states to reduce Election Day to a mere construct, while 70% of voters mailed in their ballots or voted by early, rolling balloting over many weeks.
Four, Biden, as he did in 2020, will outsource his campaign to the media, 95% of which is left-wing. Talking televised heads will claim Biden is “sharp as a knife” while focusing on Trump’s tweets, Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen, and lurid but irrelevant testimonies that permeate Trump’s court appearances.
Want more? Want those four strategies fleshed out? Well, you’ve got the link. I strongly urge you to use it.
I wish Mr. Hanson were wrong about this. I wish things were not as they are. But he isn’t, and they are.
My only dispute with his analysis is the assumption that Biden will be the 2024 Democrat presidential nominee. I have very serious doubts about that happening; very serious suspicions that the people running the Democrat Party will find a way to remove him. (To be replaced by who? That’s a helluva question.)
And the Republican alternative to this mess? Donald Trump (unless he is replaced as well).
Yes, we are in big trouble.
