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[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
On paper, Biden’s candidacy makes no sense. Unpopular even in his own party, most Americans believe that at the age of 80 he’s too old to run, and his long string of gaffes, lies and inappropriate behaviors are only bringing more Americans over to that view.
Even the majority of Democrats would like another candidate. Yet, bafflingly, the party has allowed Biden’s people to rig the primary calendar. Alternative candidates, most notably California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom, have been told to back down, and more fringe candidates, in and out of the party, have been subjected to harassment and smear campaigns.
A party uniting around an incumbent isn’t unusual, but in a bad economy and with widespread public dissatisfaction, there’s no apparent reason why the party should be clinging to an unpopular old white man from one of the smallest states in the country who has no strong base. It would have been nearly unthinkable for the Dems to drop Obama in 2012, but there’s no real reason for the Dems to make a politician who can barely campaign its presumptive nominee.
The Democrats (like the Republicans) have become even more of a party of superannuated elites where Sen. Dianne Feinstein may not know where she is and Rep. Nancy Pelosi has just announced she’s running for another term, but none of them could lose the White House.
Biden can. That’s what makes the DNC gamble on Biden seem so implausible. Unlike the Obamas or the Clintons, Biden doesn’t have the deep base of loyalists or the political machine to intimidate, silence and clear the field. Nor does he have even their minimal political appeal.
And yet that is exactly the point.
Biden is the presumptive nominee not because he is a sure thing, but because he can’t win. That would make no sense to.a traditional Democrat’s way of thinking, but the party is no longer run by the old school, but by a new school of radicals. Its goal is not to win elections, but to radicalize the party and the country. A hopelessly weak candidate facing an unwinnable election against Trump or DeSantis serves that purpose far better than a Newsom victory.
An unwinnable candidate in an election they can’t afford to lose will once again radicalize the Democrats and force them to break rules they hadn’t even previously thought of breaking.
To leftists the election isn’t the issue, only the revolution. From the leftist perspective they won in both 2016 and 2020 because they were able to radicalize the party, its apparatus and rank and file members. Getting suburban housewives to put on pink hats and howl in the streets after a massive defeat doesn’t look like anything that the party would have found rewarding in 1956, but the Left is not out to win elections, but to end them and take over the entire country.
While Republicans celebrated, leftists broke new ground in radicalizing Democrats and in coordinating the machinery of the administrative state to act openly against Trump and Republicans. Republicans had won an election, but leftists had unleashed a state within a state. Openly sidelining elected officials for unelected ones is much more fundamental to the leftist agenda than any of the culture war battles because it prepares the way for a totalitarian state.
Then after terrorizing Democrats and some independents with monstrous caricatures of Trump for four years, the party and its allies were willing to do anything in 2020. And they did.
Biden’s weakness, elderly and running a basement campaign, was a strength, not a weakness.
Democrats, convinced that they couldn’t win naturally, pulled out all the stops, at the state level, exploiting public health emergencies, unilaterally changing voting rules, setting off race riots and bringing the country to its knees. Would they have been as desperate with a strong candidate?
Now Democrats know just how weak their candidate is and how bad their position is. What can the Left convince them to do to win in 2024? The real question is what won’t they do.
The serial raids, indictments and investigations are just a sample of what is being unleashed.
The real purpose of this exercise is not the 2024 election. The next presidential election, like the previous ones, and all those before it, is just a means to an end to the Left. It uses those elections, win or lose, to radicalize and tear apart the country, to seize control of governing institutions and encourage those under its control (and even sometimes those on the other side) to dismantle the governing processes and safeguards against a totalitarian dictatorship.
It’s not even 2024 and leftists have normalized arresting and indicting presidential candidates and trying them during an election season. Democrats were not ready for that in 2016. If Biden weren’t on the ticket now, maybe they would still hesitate. But desperate people do anything.
The two-sided process of radicalization is to prepare the people and institutions for an emergency seizure of power. The Left finally grasped in the seventies that Americans will never go 0-60 to an overnight dictatorship. Comrade Sunshine and Brother Number 19 showing up on television tomorrow to announce food will be rationed will lead to a swift civil war.
Incremental radicalization however opens the Overton window for certain emergency power grabs and acts of domestic violence. Whether it’s temporary suspensions of the 2nd Amendment, pandemic shutdowns, domestic surveillance, or BLM riots, they’re all tests of what we are willing to incrementally accept as the new normal until our rights have been slowly cooked..
The Left exploits or manufactures a crisis, and then sees what desperate people will be willing to go along with. What do you do if you believe children are being massacred to protect the profits of gun manufacturers? What kind of violent acts would you be willing to commit if you believe black people are being subjected to genocide by police descended from slave institutions? What kind of repression would you be willing to sign off on to survive a virus? What would you do if the country were on the verge of falling to a fascist dictator who will lock you up?
These are all things that the other side has been sincerely taught to believe. And act on.
People are being made desperate to radicalize them into being willing to do anything. The more desperate they are, the weaker their position looks, the more crimes they will commit.
Even though the Left controls the country’s institutional power, much of its wealth, almost all of its culture and communications, and is far more effective than conservatives, your average leftist believes that his movement is beleaguered and fighting against the rich and powerful.
How do you make all of those people even more desperate and radical in 2024?
Run Joe Biden again.
Biden’s presidential candidacy makes no sense except to make Democrats so desperate that they will fall into the leftist trap and set even more of the Constitution on fire, use abusive tactics ever more likely to bring on a civil war and break any kind of credible system of elections.
Who benefits from that? Democrats would benefit more from running a strong candidate who can win rather than running a weak candidate who can’t. Leftists benefit from radicalizing the Democrats and tearing apart the country because their goal isn’t election: it’s revolution.
History shows that once leftists are arresting political candidates for having the wrong politics, they don’t stop with those on the right, they quickly go after Democrats, moderates and anyone who falls short of their radical doctrines. That is how it began in the USSR. It’s beginning here.
Biden may appear to be as unlikely an engine for the radicalization of a nation as he is an unlikely candidate, but an unwinnable candidate is the best incentive for breaking the rules. The more leftists convince Democrats that they need to break more rules, the closer they come to their true objective of breaking all the rules and then taking over America.
Another outstanding article in Daniel Greenfield. We can just project different revolutions from the various totalitarian governments in the past it seems so simple to understand where this is. All heading
Yet many naïve Democrats, independence ,and a good portion of the GOP. Do not see how this is all coming together for a totalitarian happy faced government. . neither did the Citizens see in the past see totalitarian government coming either.
Thank you for your great style of writing and making it concise and clear. It took a long time to get here, but it’s happening so quickly that the brain can’t absorb it all as it occurs on a daily basis, just like the frog couldn’t detect the warm water before it started boiling.
Amazing job as usual. God bless your excellent writing.
Yes, Mr. Greenfield does a fine job of chronicling America’s destruction. Surely, there’ll be a perch for him in the post-constitutional wasteland that is to follow; perhaps in the Ministry of Truth, or something.
Huh … ? … No, exactly th opposite … Mr. Greenfield will be banished from the public square like every other truth teller …
If we can’t vote our way out of this , how do we stop it ? Daniel suggests that the Left is relying on a slow saturation of totalitarianism . But eventually there will be what Glenn Beck calls a ” Franz Ferdinand moment “.
What will be the final straw that will make factions form in America ? Are we close ?
We know every police union supported Trump , so we know where their ideals lie . And , it also explains why they’re being vilified for the last decade or so .
Armed services ? Factions ? Absolutely chilling stuff .
And who exactly will these factions be fighting against if they do form ? The intel community ? Will factions form there too ?
The whistleblowers would suggest yes , factions will form within the Intel community . What a mess . But that’s what totalitarian coup attempts bring . Messes .
I certainly hope none of this happens but if Daniel is correct in this article and it’s impossible to vote our way out of this , what alternative is there ? Compliance ? lol Something tells me that won’t be the case .
Just my humble opinion and i certainly hope I’m wrong and that there’s another way to stop this Marxist revolution .
Yes, the same way past revolutions were stopped.
C’mon man, you maga extremist, you’re causing my staff more work. How did you get to find this out man?
Hunter will sort you out man.
This sounds counter intuitive so I’m not quite convinced
Brilliant dissertation.
They didn’t “win” in 2020,, Mr. Greenfield. They stole the election in 2020. The actions now with the Hunter indictment and a growing cry to remove Biden from the ticket mean that they need a more popular candidate with the base to make the illusion of a victory when they steal it again in 2024 look plausible.
Agreed. Trump’s galvanization of support/hate makes 2020’s outcome much more plausible and easier to digest for some, but now that Democrats have had a taste of cheating on a national scale, they’re not going to be willing to give it up, whether Trump’s the ultimate candidate or not. I hope it’s ultimately their Achilles heel, but when video evidence of election theft proves to be insufficient, I’m not sure what would constitute proof any longer.
I misread Greenfield stating that it was the Democrats’ perspective that they won in ’16 and ’20. The rest of the essay is spot on.
Cheers.
Possibly the former Oregon State Ducks wide receiver.
It would put Jarrett’s idol closer to his workplace.
The message to those that oppose where we are headed is that there is little hope. Joe’s behavior is not a liability but an attribute for the crusade the left is on. There are so many people that owe their survival to this system that they will gladly run this path to utopia only to arrive in hell. The problem is that we will accompany them in this dark world. Thank you Daniel for the clear understanding of the reasoning of the evil men set before us.
Trotsky and Lenin made a big point that to foment a successful revolution, one needs to choose the right time, the right day, the right hour, even the right minute or second. They made a big point that the pre-1917 attempts at revolution in Russia failed because of bad timing. The radical leftists in USA think that now is their 1917 moment.
Correction, the radical leftists in the UN.
The situation sounds diagnostically and prognostically bleak, especially since it’s supported by thousands of years of historical and psychological dark-side-of-human-nature precedent.
Considering theories of evolution and natural selection, which the twisted minds of our enemies perverted and worshipped, I don’t see that our enemies have evolved past the original homo sapiens prototype.
Rather than continuing to evolve into moral, civilized humans, they have actually devolved into trans-snakes and other predatory life forms.
Why? Because they resent God for making the world; and they yearn for pre-creation chaos.
We are a post-Christian nation now. The unifying tenets the country was built on have been rejected in favor of idolatry. People will act in ways that “please” whatever god they have chosen and in most cases that god was created by themselves for themselves. This is no accident.
Does anyone else think that one day Obama will just step out from behind the curtain, maybe even with his partner in different gender garb than usual, and point to us and say “ I gotcha!” Maybe he will be wearing an emperors crown on his old head. and smoking a……whatever it is he smokes.
He smokes poles.
Whoever down voted me smokes plenty of poles.
Wipe your chin.
I down vote you routinely. Your banal comments are at the level of a pre-adolescent 13-year old derelict who just found a new 4-letter word in the dictionary. Your comments lack intelligence, wisdom, wit, and any sense of decency. You seem to spend a significant amount of time attempting show how tough you are. The only one who seems to be fooled by it is yourself. A confident person doesn’t need to try and prove anything; only those that lack it do. As psychologist Michael Hurd would say, grow up.
I wonder if there’s a chance that Tim Scott has thought about and has the guts and bravery to really get under Obama’s skin in order to draw him out, make him lose control, enraging the ego of this man who is absolutely positive that voters knowingly voted him in for a third term and will give him a fourth. Obama without a doubt thinks he is omnipotent. But if he can be made to feel threatened by Scott, the one man who appears to have the credibility to challenge him, then, he may take the irresistible bait and, in a self proclaiming rant of self deification might unwittingly expose his true agenda of treason, hate and destruction.
“Even though the Left controls the country’s institutional power, much of its wealth, almost all of its culture and communications, and is far more effective than conservatives, your average leftist believes that his movement is beleaguered and fighting against the rich and powerful.” That is because, as I have learned from living in a very blue area for decades, leftists simple love to feel vulnerable, frightened, and that they are victims. They’re always hysterically scared of DDT, Alar, ozone, the weather, firearms, murder hornets, driving, conservative speakers, artificial sweeteners, you name it.
All things that aren’t actually dangerous. Stupid lefties.
Whoever down voted me takes it up the ass from random gutter derelicts.
You sure have an obsession with homosexual acts.
Are you a closet case?
They weren’t scared about the convid vaccine when they really really should have been.
Fear is a powerful motivator and the puppet masters know it. What better way to rally the troops than to have them fear for their lives every waking moment?
We are long on good analysis like this one but short on leaders who can rally America to come forward for public action. The left can mobilize public demonstrations that can be vociferous and even violent. The right is too meek and quiet. The large turnouts that come to hear Donald Trump are potential activists but we lack strong leaders to mobilize them into effective action.
We have RINO’s, not leaders.
I disagree about our supply of “good analysis”. We do have a glut of analytical writers who think they know the problems and offer to tell us where our country went off the rails. They, however, are rank amateurs, first graders even, compared to Daniel.
Daniel Greenfield is a one-in-a-million genius, who has a brilliant insight and ability to share that knowledge with others in a way that everyone can understand. Putting him in the same league as all the other wannabe names is a gross insult. You should apologize to him, although Daniel would probably say it’s not necessary; he overlooks comments such as yours.
More and more power grabs and Executive orders going around the Congress and the law as it is written to hang onto power.
Daniel, I’ve followed your articles for years and have enjoyed each one. I think you’re missing something on this one, however. I think the Democrats are setting us up. Two minutes after Trump is declared the Republican nominee, the Democrats will find a reason (probably medical) that Biden has to be replaced “for the good of the country.” Then, the media will constantly tell America that the Republicans are running an old man with lots of legal baggage, etc. while the Democrats have a youthful, good-looking “moderate” for mainstream America. My own bet is Michelle Obama (they desperately need the black vote). I think we’re being set up.
it is the oregon state university Beavers, and it is the University of Oregon Ducks.
Oh yes, I do believe he will. Except I think the moment isn’t quite right yet. His moment will arrive when the stage has been properly set for him. When America and the rest of the world is in total chaos and ruin, and desperately looking for one man to step up and “fix” everything, the kenyan will dramatically enter from stage right and humbly offer to guide the world into a glorious new utopia. I, and millions of others like me, won’t be here to witness it tho. We will have been called home by then.
What happens if Biden doesn’t survive until 2024?
Cackling Kamel Ho will happen.
And Alzheimer Joe won’t make it till 2024. He’s barely vertical now and his brain is GONE.
It seems like a damned if you do, damned if you don’t argument. Or heads I win, tails you lose. What can the leftists do that will not get them closer to their goals? Is there some way to disprove this sort of argument?
I have read Mr. Greenfield’s “Power of Desperation”, 3 times, and compared it to similar historical movements. The best example in my mind, is the Communist take over of Russia. The top leading the movement had followers that were not as extreme as them, and not aware of the end game, they were “useful idiots”. This situation, as Mr. Greenfield stated has many mainstream loyal Democrat believers that are not hyper radicalized, they are the “useful idiots”. Following their extreme left leaders, not knowing that once the sinister agenda is accomplished, they are in the way and will be kicked off the “team” and will be under totalitarian rule like the rest of us.
Conservatives need to find away to make that large group aware they are being used, and not join their sinister leaders. This will be very difficult because of the steady lies, weaponization of institutions, the constant media barrage, on & on. Conservatives must try to open their eyes now! Any ideas???
if hitler was on the ticket the dems would be happy and the country would vote for him , the same spin that ensconced hitler the first time round is the same environment america has now . the death of millions of viable children in the womb , [ instead of jews ] euthanasia , sexual perversion , lawlessness , brownshirts [ aka ] BLM , Antifa , weaponisation of govt. entities to round up the deplorables , diversions both economic and political , bankruptcy . the only thing missing is a strong military . all because mean tweet orange man bad . the dems will win the next election because they have a system now in place which guarantees the outcome . happy trails america .
Joe Biden is their choice for two reasons: 1) he is easily controlled because he is mentally not all there. 2) The results of the election are already known: he wins with 90 million votes, mostly discovered after about 11PM local time in swing states.
I think they have another reason for not ditching Biden. He’s their puppet and gives them whatever they want. He’s just the “face” for the Obamunists who control The Party.