While the left is showing signs of dissatisfaction with the Democratic partys candidate for president and arguing that the partys program is not progressive enough, the right has become positively unhinged, warning that the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket will lead to full-blown Soviet-style socialism, or even the collapse and destruction of the United States.
For his part, Bidens policy proposals are solidly within the center-left mainstream. He has proclaimed his opposition to Medicare for All, calling instead for an expansion of health coverage through a public option; he has condemned the violence that has taken place during protests, particularly on the West Coast; and his campaign publicly repudiated and condemned Linda Sarsours stance on Israel after the left-wing activists appearance at a virtual assembly associated with the convention.
The right, however, is not buying into John Kasichs claim that Biden will not capitulate to the left. On the contrary, they are certain that if Biden is elected, he not only will move the United States to socialism but will implement every far-left proposal from the Green New Deal to socialized medicine.
If Biden should win, they predict, Americans can expect Portland-style violence to be Americas future. On the Commentary website, senior editor Abe Greenwald writes that What were witnessing, day after day, is revolutionary violenceand it is tearing up the country at a furious pace. We cannot dismiss the violence because the rioters are young, Greenwald writes in the magazines September issue, because so were Maos Red Guards, and besides, the Russian Revolution was preceded by 12 days of protests kicked off by a Womens Day March. The stakes are as high as they come: The battle for the survival of the United States of America is upon us, Greenwald says. This is . . . most fundamentally a revolution against the United States of America and all it stands for.
Why should we take this seriously? His argument is as sane as when Attorney General John Mitchell looked out his window at protesters against the Vietnam War and said Its looks like the Russian Revolution. Greenwalds unstated conclusion is that, since the tyrannical mob poses the most danger to the nation, Donald Trump cannot be as dangerous as the Democrats want you to believe.
Others are even less sanguine. In David Horowitzs Frontpagemag website, scholar Bruce Thornton says boldly: the president has a faithful and energized base and a record of accomplishment compared to the Dems lunge to the lunatic left. Thornton agrees with the rest of the Trumpist right that the Democrats have abandoned their traditional center-left governing philosophy and embraced a socialist ideology that for over a century has serially failed everywhere it has been tried. Dont actually listen to what Biden says, Thornton implies; just proclaim Biden believes the opposite. When Trump says something outrageous, the response from his defenders usually is ignore what he says, followed by look at what he does. When Trump then actually does something extremely dangerous, the same Trumpists just say to let it pass, or offer apologias and argue that his steps were correct.
David Horowitz himself is even more vehement than his group of writers, claiming that Our cities are under siege by communists like Bernie and other self-declared enemies of America who have made eminently clear that they are Marxists and their goal is the destruction of our democracy, which they hope to replace with a communist gulag. The destructive and violent events in Portland, he writes, are acts of treason [that] have had the full support of the Democrat Party not only in the cities themselves but in Washington. That is why Portland, he knows, is the issue that will re-elect Donald Trump in November.
As for Obamas powerful convention speech warning about the potential end of American democracy should Trump be re-elected, Horowitz has already argued that Obamas White House engaged in acts of treason. These took place supposedly when the Obama team attempted to block and then overthrow the Trump presidency by falsely accusing it of collusion with Russia against the president and then to obstruct his administration and overthrow him. He quotes former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who said that Obama and his team tried to stage a coup, which is nothing but treason. Obama, Horowitz writes, waged a direct attack on the most fundamental institution of our democracyelections. As to the current presidents war on free elections, Horowitz has nothing to say.
This is tame compared to the attacks aimed at Kamala Harris, whom Trumpists claim will be the real president should Biden win. Thornton calls her one of the most progressive and aggressively woke members of the Senate. She has endorsed the far-left policies of the Sanders-AOC wing. Horowitz himself calls her a political opportunist and serial liar.
Writing for Breitbart, Jim Pinkerton calls her a representative of the woke left-libertarianism of the San Francisco Democrats once put in their place by the late Jeane Kirkpatrick. Harris stands with a group, he writes, that is a part Karl Marx, one part MSNBC, one part Michel Foucault, and maybeeven a little bit of Ayn Rand. She is part of a leftism that mostly leaves billionaires alone, free to further build their fortunes. To this reader, his complaint sounds like hes talking about Donald Trump.
If possible, American Greatness, the Trumpist website, takes this hyperbole and hysteria to new heights. Matthew Boose writes that the Kamala Coup that the Biden-Harris ticket has orchestrated is a swindle. In Harris we will have a regentess who is
merciless. If she is successful, the revenge will be merciless too, not only against Trump, but against his supporters. The country will suffer as a result.... [Harris and Biden] will give amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants . . . disarm Americans, even as they defund police . . . and leave citizens vulnerable to criminals and mobs. They have demonstrated that they have no sympathy for this country, its people, or its borders. There is no reason to suppose that their talking points on these questions are mere rhetoric. They will do these things.
Do not be fooled, Boose warns: Harris will be presented sympathetically by the Democratic party machine and the mainstream media will do everything they can to make her look benign, authentic, and moderate when in reality she does not believe in anything and wears her thirst for power on her sleeve. Harris and Biden are actual tyrants in waiting. (Note, of course, that Booses argument contradicts the arguments that Biden and Harris secretly stand for socialist revolution.)
So, as this weeks Republican convention proceeds, steel yourself for this sort of vicious attack on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Trump will go lower than his lowest point of attack yet. And his base, he hopes, will eat it up and come out to re-elect him.
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