Democrats are paving the way for Trump win in ’24
The objective of the Democrat-run House Jan. 6 select committee is clear: to make sure Donald Trump is never elected president again. So why are Democrats doing everything in their power to ensure Trump wins back the White House in 2024?
They chose Joe Biden as their nominee precisely because he presented himself as an inoffensive, genial moderate who was least likely to drive away swing voters wary of the Democrats’ leftward turn. But instead of governing as a centrist and uniter, as he promised, Biden has become captive to his party’s progressive wing. His leftward lurch is providing no safe harbor for voters who don’t like Trump but also don’t like the left’s agenda. It has also unleashed a series of catastrophes that has left him less popular around the 500-day mark of his presidency than any modern president.
Biden says today’s GOP “isn’t your grandfather’s Republican Party.” Well, this isn’t your grandfather’s Democratic
Party, either. In just a few decades, we’ve gone from a Democratic president who promised that “the era of big government is over” to a Democratic president who tried to enact the highest sustained levels of federal spending since World War II while collecting more tax revenue as a share of the economy than at almost any point in the past century. That’s not what Americans voted for in 2020.
One of Biden’s first acts was to pass a $1.9 trillion social spending bill disguised as Covid relief, which helped unleash the worst inflation in more than 40 years. Don’t take my word for it. Lawrence H. Summers, who served as director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, warned in February 2021 that Biden’s plan would “set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation.”That’s not all. Biden’s war on fossil fuels helped drive gas prices to record highs, while putting America at risk of widespread power outages because his radical green policies mean we might not have enough power to get through the summer heat wave. His radical immigration policies have helped unleash the worst border crisis in U.S. history. And the flood of illegal drugs surging across the southern border, together with Democratic soft-on-crime policies, helped fuel the worst crime wave in many cities since the 1990s.Biden’s serial catastrophes are creating the perfect conditions for a Trump comeback. Democrats know it and are starting to panic. The New York Times reports that many party members now see Biden as “an anchor” to be cut loose. Americans voted for Biden expecting him to hew a centrist course, so unless Democrats are ready to move to the center, getting rid of Biden won’t make a difference.
But Democrats are focusing on Jan. 6, 2021, to re-toxify Trump. The Democrat-run committee, by holding its first prime-time hearing on the Capitol riot last week, sent a clear signal: Democrats consider this the most important issue. But Americans can be forgiven for asking: Why are these people rehashing Jan. 6 when I have to choose between filling my gas tank and feeding my family?
The answer is: Because they want to remind voters how much they hate Trump. Sorry, but that won’t be enough when every visit to the gas station and store reminds them why they dislike Biden. If Democrats change their candidate without changing policies, they are paving the way for the 45th president to become the 47th.