Many Democrats are no doubt convinced they have suffered enough, but fate seems to believe otherwise.
How else to explain Joe Biden’s decision to start making public appearances and defend his presidency?
First he did a dry run with the BBC, then jumped into a warm bubble bath at “The View”– and still nearly drowned.
Amidst the usual half-sentences and frozen delays came this gem about what he’s up to: “I’m trying to figure out what’s the most significant and consequential role I can play, consistent with what I’ve done in the past.”
The sound you hear is 40 million Democrats smashing their heads against walls and shouting “No, no, no! You can help by going back to sleep!”
But wait, there’s more: The former president said he’s writing a book.
We’ve heard it all before, so here are likely chapter headings:
“My son did nothing wrong.”
“I beat Corn Pop, a really bad dude.”
“Did you know I grew up in Scranton and we had a kitchen table?”
To complete the nightmare, the TV segment featured another unwelcome reminder of the last four years: Jill Biden grabbing the microphone to defend him when the former president couldn’t defend himself.
Asked about coming books that promise to reveal how aides hid his cognitive decline, she insisted the authors “didn’t see how hard Joe worked every single day.”
“I mean, he’d get up, he put in a full day, and then at night he would, I’d be in bed, you know, reading my book, and he was still on the phone, reading his briefings, working with staff,” she said.
“I mean, it was nonstop.”
Nobody alive believes that, or another dishonest claim he offered.
“The only reason I got out of the race was because I didn’t want to have a divided Democratic Party,” Biden said.
“It’s a simple proposition. I thought it was better to put the country ahead of my interest, my personal interest.”
Please.
The segment did succeed in one sense: It illustrated how unfit Biden was and why Donald Trump swept the election.
But Biden wouldn’t concede anything, saying he wasn’t surprised that Vice President Kamala Harris lost because, he falsely claimed, Trump “went the sexist route” against her and suggested “a woman of mixed race” couldn’t lead the country.
There you have it: We’re back to racist, sexist “deplorables” again.
Biden’s pathetic effort to rewrite history is a grim reminder that, six months after the election, Democrats are manically searching for someone to lead the resistance to Trump.
With no obvious savior among blue-state governors or in Congress, their desperation is leading them to grabsp at straws.
Who will lead Dems?
Could Bernie Sanders, who isn’t even a Democrat, be the answer?
How about his traveling companion, AOC?
Not a chance.
They are relishing their private jet rides too much to concede they are living like the oligarchs they claim to hate.
How about Harvard University, which is suing the Trump administration over its withholding of federal grants?
The suit captured the attention of The New York Times, which declared it was inspiring other colleges to fight back.
But that bubble quickly burst as Harvard released a report documenting widespread anti-semitism on its campus and its president said he agreed with Trump that the Ivy League school has a serious culture problem.
So the Times quickly moved on to hoping the new pope will be the antidote to the president it hates.
“Pontiff May Provide Contrast to Trump on U.S. Values,” a recent headline said.
Talk about strange bedfellows.
The Times and its progressive staff routinely scorn Catholicism and religion in general, so that marriage can’t last.
In truth, the problem is not who will lead the party, but what does the party stand for.
Although there’s obvious appeal to finding a star headliner, no one person can pull the Dems out of the ditch.
Biden didn’t get them there alone, and, given his brain fog, wasn’t even the leader of his administration.
The real culprits are the Obama-era activists who pushed to open the border, created the wildly expensive green new scams and force-fed the nation a diet of racial and gender hogwash.
None of those things enjoyed broad public support, yet backing them without reservation became a litmus test for Dems across America.
The only consistency to the Biden regime was the dictum to “shut up and vote” for whatever garbage it proposed.
And the party saluted and did.
Remember when the Georgia law requiring voter ID was the new Jim Crow?
Oddly, that sordid history points the way to the future.
Anyone who aims to be a Dem leader must concede the party lost its way and egregiously overreached.
He or she must also disavow the suspicion it aims to become a full socialist party, which is the path former liberal parties in Europe are following.
Party of elites
The leader who dares to take those positions may or may not become the boss, but such moves could begin a chain reaction that will allow center-left reformers to set a realistic agenda for America’s working and middle classes.
Trump’s genius was that he remade the GOP to represent those forgotten Americans.
It is now the nation’s Main Street party, with an America First agenda, while the Dems are the party controlled by coastal and global elites.
Even freed from Biden, its agenda is dominated by embracing criminal illegal migrants, protecting a bloated government workforce and refusing to consider tax cuts or reductions in federal spending.
None of that makes a whit of sense to most Americans.
As an example of how the parties have switched priorities and identities, think back to last year’s conventions.
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien gave a long, passionate speech at the Republican gathering in Milwaukee in which he criticized many of the corporate leaders backing Trump.
He said later that while some in Trump’s camp wanted him to soften his remarks, Trump told him to say whatever he wanted.
On the other hand, O’Brien did not speak at the Dem convention in Chicago and said he wasn’t even invited.
He told Tucker Carlson in an interview that in his meeting with Kamala Harris, she refused to answer many of his policy questions, left after just 15 minutes and said angrily she would win with or without his union’s support.
None of this means the GOP has a glide path to the next election, let alone the next generation.
Trump is being tested by events and has admitted frustration over being unable to stop Russia’s war with Ukraine and make headway on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Much of the global economy is slowing as he implements tariffs and an unusual level of staff turnover and leaks are undercutting the image of an efficient White House.
Still, he’s setting the table for big economic and culture gains while Dems still don’t know what they stand for — or even where the table is.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
