A Web of Lies
The Biden Administration retailed an alternate reality to the American people.
It began with the narrative that emerged soon after Inauguration Day 2021: Joe Biden was the second coming of Franklin Deneo Roosevelt, destined to accomplish that fundamental transformation of America that President Barack Obama had promised but failed to deliver. A cabal of Democratic Party court historians met with Biden in March of 2021. They put to him the comically absurd proposition that he could indeed be the twenty-first century FDR. Biden in his vanity naturally agreed. And the media, for instance CNN, were quick to amplify this narrative.
No doubt the historians persuaded themselves that what they told Biden was true. But no. It was a lie: the ur-lie of the Biden presidency, the author and mover of all the lies that followed. Joe Biden’s actual performance in office contradicted that ur-lie, triggering an avalanche of subsequent falsehoods: that the Afghanistan skedaddle was “the greatest airlift in history,” that inflation was “transitory” (and then that it was caused by greedy corporations), that the nation’s borders were secure (and if they weren’t that was really Donald Trump’s fault). After October 7, 2023, the Biden Administration claimed to have Israel’s back. It didn’t. On and on it went.
And then came the culminating lie: that despite the evidence of our eyes and ears, there was nothing wrong with Joe Biden. The American people were being deceived by “deep fakes.” He was not in physical and mental decline. The President was focused, he was energetic, he was running rings around his staff. Karine Jean-Pierre just couldn’t keep up with him!
From there, it was all downhill.
What has happened on America’s southern border with Mexico since Donald Trump became president is an indictment of the Biden Administration’s organic mendacity—and, not incidentally, that of its media apologists. As illegal immigrants poured into the country, the reality of the crisis was simply denied. It was just a case of “seasonal migration.” The Secretary of Homeland Security insisted over and over that “the border is closed.” And when this narrative met with skepticism, the President and fellow Democrats resorted to blaming Trump for any problems, claiming that somehow he’d tied their hands.
Donald Trump has now been president for a bit more than a month and a half. And the border crisis is over. All that was necessary to bring it to an end was a president and an administration willing to enforce existing immigration law. Or to put it another way, one of the biggest lies told by the Biden Administration and its apologists stands exposed.
From the Left will come the inevitable charge that Trump’s a liar too! Well, yes. Trump does tell lies, and he’s wrong about many things. But not always. On the issue of illegal immigration and border security, he speaks the truth. On issues related to gender ideology, such as the participation of biological males in women’s and girls’ sports, he speaks the truth. On the toxic influence of DEI, he speaks the truth. On American higher education’s shameful toleration of campus antisemites and supporters of terrorism, he speaks the truth.
But on all those issues and many others, President Biden, other Democrats, progressives, and much of the media lied to us. More often than not, those lies were deliberately crafted to support the ur-lie: that Joe Biden was a great president, not a vain, bombastic mediocrity whose faults were only magnified by senile decay. But in the end, they failed: One tug on a loose strand and the web of lies they wove came undone
The former president has receded from view and he’s unlikely to be missed. No matter how badly Donald Trump screws up, as he might, few people will look back fondly on Biden’s time in office. By and large, he left America in worse shape than he found it. The Democratic Party’s debased condition, so well on display during President Trump’s address to Congress earlier this week, is largely, if not completely, due to Joe Biden. The collapse of trust in legacy media journalism is largely, if not totally, due to its servile willingness to prop up a decrepit president and a tottering administration. There’s a lot of wreckage lying around.
And Joe Biden’s court historians certainly have a lot to answer for.
We still don't (and probably never will) know who the real rulers of the country were during the Biden administration.
"Rulers" because we never elected them, and they never revealed themselves to the American public.
And yet Dems today continue to deny the truth.
Excellent article! You outlined a principled that I learned from a very successful man more than 30 years ago. He would say, "there are no perfect people, but you can still find a person perfect for the job." Donald Trump was the "Perfect" fit for the job of President. Tough enough to take on his critics without wavering, which is much easier said than done.