Hubris, Meet Nemesis

The Democratic Party and the Left are getting just what they deserve

The Democratic Party’s ticket from Hell

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And people thought that the GOP was America's dysfunctional political party!

For the last few days, I’ve been enjoying the spectacle of the Democratic Party’s post-presidential debate meltdown and luxuriating in the warm glow of schadenfreude. Mr. Cosmic Justice is alive, well, and kicking the donkey. Check your six, Hubris, for Nemesis doth close behind you tread.

It’s been two weeks since Joe Biden’s debate debacle, a week since his scarcely less alarming interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, and Democrats have spent that time maximizing the damage. For a while it looked as though they might stiffen their spines, march into the White House, and tell the President that he must drop out of the race. But Biden’s intemperate refusal to consider stepping aside, his stubborn insistence that the polls are all wrong and that only he can beat Donald Trump, spooked congressional Dems. Many of those who said or intimated that Biden should bow out abruptly shifted into reverse.

Admittedly, they found themselves confronting a daunting problem. Having rigged the primary to quash any serious challenge to Biden’s nomination, the party had made him its presumptive nominee, with more than enough convention delegates under command to clinch the deal. It was clear, therefore, that any attempt to elbow him aside would cause an uproar, very probably splitting the party down the middle. For despite his manifest incapacity, the President still enjoys support within the party: the Congressional Black Caucus, AOC’s progressive Squad, the wider progressive base. As long as they stick with him, he has every incentive to hang in there.

So Biden’s sitting pretty. But there’s a catch. Barring divine intervention, come November he’s going to get shellacked by the Prince of the Golden Escalator.

And what a treat it’s been to witness the comeuppance of all those smarmy, virtue-signaling twits on the broad Left who’ve been posing as the valiant defenders of “our democracy”! I call it a pose because how can they be taken seriously? These people promoted Joe Biden as American democracy’s last, best hope. They did so despite the fact that Biden’s accelerating mental and physical deterioration was blatantly obvious, especially to those closest to the man. So of course, there had to be a coverup. And of course, the coverup was doomed to fall apart—as it did in the first five minutes of the Biden/Trump debate.

The collapse of the Biden presidency and the broad-based conspiracy to cover it up is the greatest political scandal of modern times. The sheer number of people implicated in it—the White House staff, cabinet members, congressional Democrats, most of the legacy media, great swathes of social media—boggles the mind. Who can believe that they believed the President was just fine? Anyone could see that he wasn’t, and the closer one was to him, the more obvious it had to be.

Supposedly, Donald Trump committed an unforgivable act of election interference by paying off a porn star to keep her quiet about their little tryst. How dare he! the comrades cried. The public has a right to know! Well, the public certainly had a right to know that the President of the United States was falling apart—but certain people felt otherwise. They figured that if they could shield Biden from public scrutiny, prop him up, and get through the election, all would be well. He probably wouldn’t make it to the end of a second term, but so what? Vice President Harris would replace him—setting her up nicely for 2028.

Despite the lack of a porn star in the cast of characters, all this strikes me as election interference on a massive scale. So please, comrades, let’s not pretend that you were running this scam to defend “our democracy.” Democracy had nothing to do with it. You were engaged in a desperate and fortunately futile attempt to hang on to power.

Much as I loathe him, I feel a little bit sorry for Joe Biden. Elder abuse is an ugly thing, even when it happens to someone whom you dislike. But for his enablers, who leveraged the President’s vanity and stubbornness to prevent him from doing the right thing, I feel no sympathy at all. When I read of the gloom, depression, and despair that beclouds the Democratic Party, I smile. When I heard that there were tears at one recent caucus of congressional Democrats, I laughed. When I’m told that the Dems fear a down-ticket debacle in November I nod, thinking: That’s just what you deserve.

And occasionally I reflect that if Donald Trump did indeed sell his soul to Satan, he got one Hell of a deal.