With each passing day, it’s becoming more and more evident that Democrats are lost at sea and struggling desperately to remain relevant. If the left has any interest in being taken seriously again, two consequential things must happen. First and foremost, they must come clean about the cover-up of President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. And secondly, they should cease doubling down on the politics of division and failed policies that were overwhelmingly rejected at the ballot box last November.
After a decade of deception, Trump deranged politicians must stop lying to the American people. Then, of course, words must be backed up with action. This means not obstructing the investigations that are being launched to find out what happened behind the scenes to hide Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and overall health from the public eye. President Biden’s recent cancer diagnosis only adds fuel to the fire and necessitates expanding the probe from the former president’s mental state to include questions about when the cancer was first discovered.
As investigations move forward, it’s imperative for Democrats to make this a bipartisan endeavor because the American people deserve no less. It’s a massive national security risk to have a sitting president incapable of discharging his duties in office, so it’s in everyone’s interest to make sure it never happens again. Congress and the Department of Justice must do their jobs to determine the breadth of the alleged conspiracy to defraud the United States during the Biden Administration and find out exactly who was involved.
Every four years American voters elect a president. “We the People” give the president – and the president alone – the power to make the executive decisions for the country. Bureaucrats, staff, and family members have no such authority. Moreover, it’s the president’s actual signature – not an autopen – that gives a bill, resolution, or pardon legitimacy. The act of signing a document makes it clear that the president is aware of what he’s doing and is in support of the measure. We must have clarity on whether the presidency was being manipulated by an unelected cabal of left-wing radicals working to fundamentally transform the United States of America into something unrecognizable. The true threat to democracy has been exposed and those responsible must be held accountable.
The mainstream media would be wise to get on board with the push for bipartisanship regarding the Biden cover-up and admit their own role in facilitating the big lie. It’s not enough to just write books about Joe Biden’s decline and the Kamala Harris-led coup and then act surprised. These are deadly serious allegations and if the corporate media wants to regain trust, it should allow journalists to follow this Pulitzer Prize-caliber story wherever it leads.
At the same time, Democrats need new leaders who are willing to criticize those in their party who specialize in opposing popular reforms due to Trump Derangement Syndrome. For example, when Minnesota Governor and 2024 Democrat Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz compares heroic Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents trying to deport criminal illegal immigrants to “Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo,” someone on the left should stand up and say this rhetoric is not only wildly inaccurate but also dangerous. Polling indicates that even sixty-three percent of Democrats support deporting illegal immigrants with criminal records.
Similarly, Democrat leaders must start calling out liberal politicians from the past for spouting divisive rhetoric just to stay on cable news. Recently, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democrat Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton insulted millions of women by saying every Republican woman except a few would be a “handmaiden to the patriarchy” if they were elected president. Only a rudderless party of cowards would allow damaging and counterproductive language like this to continue unchallenged.
However, for the left, it doesn’t end with support for illegal immigration and belittling women they don’t agree with – not by a long shot. Democrats also find themselves on the wrong side of tax increases, unleashing domestic energy to lower costs, law and order, education reform, and fighting for fair trade deals to benefit the American worker. Something needs to change for the Democrat Party in a hurry, because standing firmly against Trumpian common sense is a recipe for disaster. It starts with honesty and then acknowledging the need to change course. The American people are paying close attention.
David N. Bossie is president of Citizens United. He served as deputy campaign manager for Donald J. Trump for President in 2016.
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