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[Order Daniel Greenfield’s new book, Domestic Enemies: HERE.]
The 2016 presidential election was going to come down to two candidates, Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, whose ‘turns’ had come. And then Donald J Trump rode down an escalator, took their ‘turn’ and the establishment has never been the same since. Because it was their ‘turn’.
In 2020, it was the ‘turn’ of Joe Biden, a man whose only political credential was that he had stuck around long enough to stick to things, like the Senate and the Vice Presidency.
Now in 2024, it’s Joe Biden’s ‘turn’ again. No one in his party was under the impression that he was the best candidate, the best campaigner or the best president, but damn it, it was his ‘turn’.
And now the Democrats are panicking because the candidate taking his ‘turn’ is imploding.
Biden’s debate meltdown has frightened Democrats, but they still have no answer for how to stop the car accident that everyone else could see coming from miles away. And no good strategy beyond getting the party leaders to confront their candidate and ask him to step down. But how do you take away Biden’s ‘turn’ when turns are the most sacred thing in politics.
It’s not an exclusively Democrat problem. The GOP put up Bob Dole against Bill Clinton and John McCain against Barack Obama because it was their ‘turns’. They let Mitt Romney go up against Obama a second time because it was his ‘turn’. And after Republicans lost two straight presidential elections because they ran establishment candidates taking their ‘turn’, voters were so sick of it that they did what they would have never done before and picked Trump.
Because it wasn’t his ‘turn’.
‘Turn’ politics mostly still rules. Candidates past their prime go up to bat because they have the biggest networks of fellow politicians, donors and party activists. It’s as if Major League Baseball favored players on the basis of seniority and how well they networked, not based on how well they can pitch or hit.
But unlike sports, politics isn’t a meritocracy, it isn’t even a democracy, it’s an oligarchy.
Voters self-importantly think of elections as the big political competition, but that’s like judging companies based on the keynote addresses of their CEOs. Elections are the least important part of politics. All the really important parts of politics happen behind closed doors. What politicians do isn’t run for office, they network, they cut deals and they plan their careers.
That network, which we occasionally call by wholly inadequate names like the “establishment” or “D.C. insiders” is the reason Biden is up again in 2024. And why he can’t be gotten rid of.
People who naively think that Obama is secretly running the Biden administration don’t understand the network or how it works. Obama took on Hillary when it was her ‘turn’ in 2008. He won and brokered a deal that moved the Democrat network further leftward. And he did the same thing again in 2020, bringing in Bernie’s people and Elizabeth Warren’s people (and his own people) so that the Biden administration is even more radical and extreme than his was.
But where did Obama come from? He came out of that network of radical activists, donors and government personnel now running the country. Obama is not a brilliant genius or one man dynamo, he was a lazy and unoriginal activist lawyer, one of tens of thousands of Ivy Leaguers who join the political side of the network, who wanted to live out his egotistical ambitions.
And the leftist networks gave him the opportunity to do it in exchange for seeding it deeper across the Democrat Party, the government and the country. Then his time came.
Obama did not want Biden to succeed him. He pushed Biden out in favor of Hillary and then tried to bring in a surprise candidate to run against him in 2020. But some things are sacred and not even Obama, especially once out of the White House, could take away Biden’s ‘turn’ twice.
It’s not really Biden’s ‘turn’ though. It’s the turn of the strategists, lobbyists, staffers, donors, allies and more nebulous figures known as ‘friends’ whom he accrued over the years. They’re invested in his success and they’re profiting from it. And they won’t easily give it up.
Trying to replace Biden with Newsom (aside from the legal and logistical issues) would be a clash of two networks that would require either careful negotiations or outright civil war. It’s done all the time with primary rivals who become vice presidents or cabinet members, but displacing a sitting president who also won the nomination and has raised and spent a massive fortune would require a level of delicate negotiations akin to bringing peace to an African civil war.
Especially if that president is unstable, prone to fits of anger, and is insulated by the same political allies whose wealth and power depend on Biden winning a second term in office.
It’s not just about Jill and Hunter, Joe Biden has tens of thousands of political mouths to feed. Money has been collected, favors promised, people have bought homes in D.C. bedroom communities, lobbyists have secured fat contracts and donors have opened up their wallets.
Replacing Biden with another candidate would upend much of D.C., put tens of billions of dollars in flux and create massive instability in this corrupt local economy. Much of D.C. would rather ride it out (especially since the campaign people will make just as much money if Biden loses) and preserve the integrity of the networks and the illicit pinkie swears that allow special interests to buy influence without having to worry if their man will suddenly be swapped out.
That is what “it’s his turn” really means.
It’s not impossible for the Democrats to replace Biden but despite all the ‘Orange Man Bad’ alarmism that is their only campaign slogan, none of them view him as enough of an existential threat to disrupt a political way of life which allowed a mediocre grifter like Biden to get this far.
People who don’t understand that were baffled that Biden would run and that he would get the nomination. After his disastrous debate showing, much of the party panicked and outsiders assumed that they would dump Biden. The truth is that the Democrats wish they could.
‘Turn’ corruption once again threatens the survival of the party and yet they can’t break away from it because parties are vehicles for careerism and cash. The networks around powerful politicians build careers and move money. And those networks are running the country.
When people ask “who’s been running the country” after Biden’s debate performance, the answer is that it’s the same people who run most of the government. And have all along.
Politicians in a state of obvious mental decline like Biden or Sen. Dianne Feinstein who go on introducing bills, signing legislation, tweeting and expressing strong opinions on issues in their press releases are not aberrations, they’re symptoms of a much bigger problem.
Not just Biden, but many, if not most, elected officials are figureheads who exist to broker favorable arrangements between their personal networks of donors and staffers, and those of other elected officials, and the ones in the bureaucracy that actually make policy. The revolving door between staffers, personnel, appointees and lobbyists who move between administrations, offices, boards, corporations, think tanks and firms is the actual force that runs the country more than most elections. Politicians play their part, meeting, greeting and signing off on what they’re told will be good for their careers within the networks they’re part of.
And if they build up enough cachet, one day it will also be their ‘turn’ to be at the top..
That’s why Democrats can’t solve their Biden problem. The issue isn’t one man’s decline but a systemic crisis. Biden embodies what the Democrats (and the two-party system and politics really is) and while getting him out may fix the immediate problem, it won’t fix the system.
Biden is a test of how much the system is willing to risk and how high a public implosion it’s willing to tolerate to protect the sacred right of the ‘turn’. Will Democrats let their party go down to protect the system? Will they go on lying to their voters and their donors? Will the media, which briefly broke away from the lies after the debate, resume going along with the scam?
Other ‘Bidens’, some elderly, confused and inept like Joe, others middle aged, confused and inept, like Kamala, and some even young, confused and inept like AOC, fill the system because they are how the system works. It’s not a meritocracy that elevates the best, a democracy chosen by the people, but an oligarchy that runs the system and is also the system.
Another great column. The bureaucracy runs everything behind the curtain, the politicians just dance on the stage.
As the system grows. It runs itself. Always inevitable.
Combine that with trendy leftist politics among the elites and we have our current crisis
Where do I sign up to get in line for “My Turn” to get my share of America’s political loot ?
I have been waiting for a long long time now.
Enough is Enough.
Start volunteering for your local political party.
If like me, you’re a registered independent, that’s an absurdity. I left the republican party circa 2003 when the neocons took over the GOP and became an independent. Since then, I haven’t looked back and I don’t regret it.
No political party has an inherent claim on my vote. That’s not the case when you’re wedded to a particular political party.
Lastly, my sworn allegiance is to the United States of America, it’s flag and the US Constitution. I owe no fidelity to a political party and I’m certain that that’s the way our country’s founders intended things to be.
love you Daniel….great article. I love this news site too.
“Biden’s debate meltdown has frightened Democrats, but they still have no answer for how to stop the car accident that everyone else could see coming from miles away. And no good strategy beyond getting the party leaders to confront their candidate and ask him to step down.” LOL!!!
It is funny in a sick way. The arrogant morons should’ve done that a year ago but now it’s too late.
There’s nothing the D-Bags can’t screw up except lying and cheating.
Dan B. said the good news is if FJB stays in the race, the Ds will stay home and not vote. They won’t vote straight Democrat down the line ballot and the Rs will have more representation in the House. I think he’s right.
That is to say, the “system” is on autopilot and will stay on autopilot for the foreseeable future. Autopilot being government (federal, state and local) bureaucracy, aka the “deep state.” Un-elected and unaccountable to no one but themselves.
(FYI: There are now over 200,000 pages of the Code of Federal Regulations. All written by the federal bureaucracy.)
Ronald Reagan once said to the effect that nearest thing to eternity that we will ever know in our life time is government bureaucracy.
The closest person we have to President Ronald Reagan is President Donald Trump!
The last three paragraphs of this article are truely chilling. We are no longer a republic with a government that represents us but, as George Carlin said, a big club that we are not in. It makes me wonder if our voting/campaigning really matters anymore.
‘Convention of the States’
We need TERM LIMITS!
No. What we really need are public executions of politicians who’ve been in office for more than, say, 4 terms and make it forbidden by law to run for a fourth term in office. No exceptions, no exemptions.
Thank you, for another fine and illuminating article.
Thank you.
Yeah, that thing about “turns” has long irritated me.
Yeah, it’s an oligarchy (not that I understand oligarchies very well, been reading about them in Ancient Rome).
Excellent analysis.
Yes, having the federal government run by a system is as sleazy as it gets and obviously why it’s always been a corrupt, money sucking failure in my lifetime.
Trump was a stand alone President but the system took him down in 2020 and will likely do it again this November. I’m surprised he got anything accomplished while he was President.
That’s a good point. That reminded me, one of the things oligarchies in Ancient Rome were good at was blocking the programs of their opponents.
They were also good at assassinating their opposition. I fear this is what may be next.
Excellent point.
His secret to getting whatever he could get accomplished was to not staff things out.
Trump relied too much on Executive Orders, which were taken down by Biden’s EO’s on the latter’s first day in office. (Remember that picture of him sitting at the Resolute Desk with Jill shoving papers under his nose to sign?) You can’t run a country like a corporation; he should have been a bit more collegial with Congress to get things done for the long run.
That’s bullsh*t and you know it! We have the debt and deficits and all the other attending problems we have precisely because the country is NOT run like a corporation. And your solution is to appease, make deals with the Capitol Hill mafia?
In other words, just keep doing the same thing and hoping for a different result? I have some shocking news for you: Politicians don’t solve problems, they create problems and then nourish the growth of the problems by throwing money at it.
And you’re calling for more of that? That’s insane!
The gov SHOULD be run like a corporation! If it overspends, there should be consequences. America is tottering on bankruptcy due to Obama, Biden and a Democratically/Liberally controlled House, Senate & Presidency for many decades. Pres Trump started to change all that and was judicially fought tooth and nail (& still is being) to defeat his attempt to turn this country back to the People. Hope is finally on the horizon with his run for the Presidency this year. Go Donald!
An Oligarchy, as I understand, is somewhat akin to the Golden Rule. He who has the gold, makes the rules.
Yeah, that’s another thing about oligarchies in Ancient Rome. The moneyed interests were often in the oligarchy.
And a big enough government, controls the gold.
Yep, if you can spend 3 times the money you take in and not be held accountable, you’re an oligarchy.
What if Hussein Obama believes for his fourth term it is Michelle Obama’s turn?
With Michelle Obama in the Oval Office, Hussein Obama would not have to be so much in the shadows working through his cronies to tell Joe what to do.
Can you imagine the further “fundamental transformation” (destruction) of America after four or eight years of Michelle Obama?
Yes….there is a belief that the debate was orchestrated to create a reason to replace Biden with a character who would be accepted by the liberal masses. Looks like it will be Michelle.
Okay, I’ll bite.
It’s more than naive, it’s wacko to think that Obama alone is running everything.
But it is reasonable to think that he is a figurehead, not like Biden‘s being a figurehead for the corrupt indigenous American network political system, but a figurehead for the evil forces out to destroy America and Israel.
Obama and his handlers know the Biden system well. That’s how they invaded and colonized Chelm.
Obama ran in 2008 as someone “ashamed to be an American”. That campaign premise creeped me out. It sounded so un-American….. so foreign, a red flag for me, not a red, white and blue flag.
I am one of a very small
electorate who votes solely on foreign policy. But, that is with the belief that the mindset, the moral standing behind foreign policy, determines domestic policy. The ObamaBiden administration’s domestic policies reflect, express and share foreign policy goals:
DEI and BDS; CRT and “Palestinianism”; open borders and ‘from the river to the sea’; BLM, Antifa riots and pro Hamas riots; racism and anti-anything Jewish; abortion and aborting Israel.
Obama has been ‘crystal clear‘ with all these policies.
With all this ‘figurehead’ and his collaborators have plotted and ‘accomplished’ over the last sixteen years, including during the Trump years, for all this, he has no shame.
This particular ‘American’ has no shame.
At this point, I’d call him an Iranian proxy.
I’d call him a traitor, because he is.
And a Chinese proxy, and a proxy of anyone who will give him money.
“Strategists, lobbyists, staffers, donors, allies and more nebulous figures known as ‘friends’ whom he accrued over the years.”
Yep. Those are his handlers, all right
That’s the swamp! & it’s swampy.
And some of their names are VALERIE JARRETT, ERIC HOLDER, AND SUSAN RICE!
One thing for certain, definitely.
It “ain’t” Joe Biden.
Probably a team of Obama counselors – Valerie Jarrett, Susan Rice, Ron Klain, Rhodes, others, et al. None of whom obviously are very skilled or knowledgeable in Foreign Affairs, military strategies, etc.
The worst aspect of what the World witnessed last Thursday evening, and to our collective National embarrassment, was the depth of JB’s lack of cognition even balance. Several foreign leaders have expressed their surprise.
I don’t mean to go off on a tangent but I see the J6 imprisonments as that system described here communicating to the rest of us that we dare not try to exercise the rights we were told we have. Which we do not.
If we currently have no power to disrupt them it seems very much like we need another1776. Hopefully peacefully. – Praying for a good result in November.
Steve Bannon was imprisoned just today for refusing to testify before the illegitimate January 6th commission. Peter Navarro has been in prison for months. People have been imprisoned for complaining at school board meetings.
The swamp is only half the problem The other half is that Obama and his minions set policy
Obama? Didn’t you read this article, Steve?
Obama is a lazy, feckless, unintelligent nothing who has been groomed since childhood for his role. He’s never been anything but an empty suit.
This describes the entire western political system and is epitomised with the UN, NATO, the Euand the WEF.
Scrap them all.
I believe that our politicians must be banned from attending these top secret meetings with billionaires, like the ones in Davos. The WEF is clearly a political whorehouse where pols are paid to make monstrous ideas “perfectly legal”.
Who’s running the country? The Kenyan. Who’s the caboose on the Democ-rat freak train? AOC.
I disagree. Garland and Mayorkas are playing a very big role in this. There is no was that Obama would be throwing billions at Zelensky, and there was no reason for Randi Weingarten and Garland to go to Ukraine at all. Blinken, yes, Garland no.
The most interesting analysis of our oligarchy I’ve yet seen.
One thing still confuses me. I cannot think of a more utterly useless ruling class in history. People like to point to France before the Revolution. But they were, after all, the officer class, which performed rather well against the Brits in our Revolutionary War. Besides, they, like the Russians, has been dominated by a genuine autocracy. The historic conflict of kings and aristocrats was ended in both countries by the victory of the former.
Anyway, I look at our rulers and think of the Bobs’ line, “What is it you’d say you DO here?”
They make themselves rich and important and powerful.
And they pursue the various radical agendas the transform society and solve all its problems that justify themselves becoming very rich
OBAMA WAS BORN OF COMMUNISTS. He was mentored by a Communist. While at Columbia University, he even admitted to seeking out Communist Professors. Google: “Obama Sundial 1983” which is an article Obama wrote with mentions of many Communist Party USA FRONTS directly associated with the SOVIET KGB’S WORLD PEACE COUNCIL.
Their US Peace Council aided and funded Communist revolutions in Central America by installing, funding, and protecting Communist Sandinista DANIEL ORTEGA, who arrests all political opponents, “as a threat to our Democracy!” (sound familiar?) With CISPES, which Obama mentions, raised funds for the Communist FMLN rebels in El Salvador using state and university chapters that disguised themselves a Human Rights and Peace groups who were then funding killing HUMANS and aiding in WAR! “Blessed are the Peacemakers?” THIS ARTICLE also proves OBAMA HUNG OUT WITH COMMUNIST STUDENTS that were pro-Soviet and anti-US!
When Obama moved to Chicago, (reports that he mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of CPUSA, lived there) there are photos on the net that show him meeting with Chicago’s Communists. VALERIE JARRETT, who was his real VP, is a Communist as well as her parents.
Now President Barack Obama who only surrounded himself with the same CPUSA/KGB RECRUITS that he then appointed to head departments which were then used in a COUP ATTEMPT against a sitting President and still being used to go after a Former President. (Didn’t mention Trump because this conspiracy is against “a President of the United States!”)
THEIR JOB TODAY is to recruit THE NEXT GENERATION OF COMMUNISTS we see in the streets rioting, looting, burning down cities, killing police, and now supporting REAL TERRORISTS with all getting away with it which these Communist-run agencies, and the WH, are more concerned about MAGA and label them as domestic terrorists who will cause a BLOODBATH if Trump loses! Maxine and Hillary are hiding under their beds!
There is more truth in your comment, Steve, than in the article above it. And that is one of the reasons why Mr. Trump could not govern effectively during his one term. Obama’s (communist) department heads and personnel officers still occupied the highest levels of Trump’s agencies and cabinet departments…and remain there to this day, imposing Marxist policies and hiring ever more bottom-tier Ivy League communists to feed the monster they have created.
Yes but these so called communists are all fabulously wealthy but don’t share any of their wealth or property.
t’s very simple.
In three KEY SWING STATES, Biden can only be replaced on the ballot if he dies or is removed by the 25th Amendment.
Georgia, Wisconsin and Nevada have this requirement.
DEMS have to compete in those three swing states to make the BIG STEAL look “reasonably” possible.
So DEMS will have to use the 25th Amendment or kill Biden.
I believe Obama will opt for killing Biden and blaming it on Trump and his MAGA supporters.
That approach cleans up a lot of corruption loose ends that involve him and it provides an excuse to declare martial law.
But we’ll see which way the DEM/Communist revolution wants to go.
They can’t kill him. Not now. It would be too obvious in the wake of the debate that proved he was an incapable front man and nothing more. If they tried to kill him and blamed it on Trump voters the game would be on and as they say “you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet”.
If you’re right, DC, then timing will be crucial -how to replace candidate Biden without invoking horrid Harris as president?
yep……….there’s a lot of craziness yet to come.
The reason we don’t get rid of the UN, or demand they move to another country, is because we have the whole place BUGGED.
We also FUND these America HATERS and now again, The Paris Climate Accord, where the biggest polluters don’t pay “their fair share” and don’t care about the climate. THEY’RE LAUGHING!
I’ve been to Mexico many times due to my music career, TRASH-FILLED RIVERS AND STREAMS! When flying in Mexico City, a brown cloud up ahead like a dome so I took a photo which I can’t show here. We were an hour away from landing and you couldn’t see the ground at 30,000 feet. You couldn’t see the other airport terminal a hundred yards away. The Zona Rosa is clean but all other areas, TRASH and it SMELLS! (The hacienda hotel I stayed at was beautiful. Mr. Gomez changed his license plate every morning saying that if your plate had an odd or even last number, you could only drive on odd or even days…. SO YOU HAVE TWO LICENSE PLATES!!!!!!!! SO CORRUPT!)
A famous canyon river in Chiapas with high cliffs is beautiful from the cliff so I wanted a ride on the river. Got there next to it…. FLOATING TRASH all across it. NO THANKS!
ALL THIS MEANS…. THEY DON’T GIVE A-DAM SCHIFF!
Thanks Steve!
The UN is a vast espionage operation, which is probably why they keep it
My reasonably well-informed son calls the UN Woodstock for spies. It certainly looks like that to this citizen and taxpayer.
The ruling class and oligarchy that runs the American system and is also the system.
The American obituary is being written every day now.
Shia moo slims. That’s who is running the country. And using old Joke Biden and his Ship of Fools as Useful Idiots to do the heavy lifting for them.
The useful idiot fools are Biden, Schumer, Pelosi, all other democraps
Respectful disagreement here. The useful idiot fools are beholden to the MIC and the intelligence community, likewise the banking industry.. This is why we have such abortions as Boing and trillion-dollar annual deficits. And they serve their masters well.
Frumpy Jill is in charge and she takes her ques from Obama.
I don’t know where she gets her advice but I do know she’ll be leading the charge to keep him in office. She’s more power hungry than Brandon. I guess the title “Dr.’ doesn’t quite meet her level of self importance.
The reason why Joe Biden just walks off is because he can’t answer any questions because he’s an ignorant, unthinking dummy who has to have others think for him and tell him what to say.
Joe Biden must be a puppet “President” who is nothing but a figurehead stooge “President “who is a useful idiot and tool to who is used by others in power “behind the curtains who just as sinister but much more intelligent than him.
For an idiot Joe Biden truly is. For example senseless Biden declared “Imagine had the Tobacco industry been immune to prostitute being sued, come on.”
Joe Biden is a puppet “President” who is easily controlled and manipulated by those behind the scenes of the power elite who are much more intelligent than him.
Biden is so very feeble –minded that who he was criminally installed as in White House to be their mindless puppet “president.”
Joe Biden is so very callous and indifferent to the sufferings of other people, so much so that he doesn’t really care about people at all. All Biden really cares about is having his ice cream.
So much so that it must be true that the letters B.I.D.E.N. really must mean “Biggest, Idiot, Democrats, Ever, Nominated.”
…….”And the truth shall set you free.” Thank you, Daniel.
Since the media is a bought puppet, I believe all their feigned surprise at Biden’s debate performance was totally expected, and the ruling class knew full well how it would go down. That suggests there is a strategy behind it, not a panic. What’s the plan?
Yes, another great assessment.
Speaking of “turns,” W.C. Fields quipped that when in the hospital, “Suddenly, one day I took a “turn” for the nurse!”
Talking of whose turn it is, legally it’s DEI appointed VP, Kamala Harris if the Democrats want to replace Biden. It’s a delightful ironic spectacle seeing the DNC, members of the Biden administration, mega Democratic donors and the mainstream media panicking over the prospects of Harris becoming President. If the DNC didn’t app0intment Harris as VP in order to cynically garner the visible minority vote and instead had appointed a person worthy of being VP then Biden would have been replaced long ago.
Any strong-willed VP would have gotten together with Biden’s cabinet members and had invoked the 25th amendment before the nation got to this juncture. Harris is even more feckless than Biden because she knows damn well that no one in Biden’s administration wants her to take the reins of power. Even worse, Jill and all the sycophants actually making the decisions want to keep Joe as President only because they don’t want to lose all the privileges and power they’ve achieved. There is no difference between someone addicted to substances (drugs and/or alcohol) and someone addicted to the trappings of power.
Correct me if I’m wrong but in the history of the United States with regard to succession, I don’t believe a VP has been passed over to replace a sitting President (due to assassination, natural death or mental incapacity) because the VP was unpopular in the political party. What we are witnessing is the Democrat Party propping up a dementia patient as President because the VP who is a DEI hire is so incredibly incompetent and unpopular.
The Democrats want their cake and eat too in terms of replacing Biden, passing over Harris, keeping all the same policies intact and where everyone keeps their job…well except for Jill.
Well, whoever is running it is doing a piss poor job of it.
Acquiring the money of others and using their credit to create indebtedness is piracy.
I remember that John Solomon found a phone number in a footnote in a pleading. He called the number, which turned out to be for a satellite phone, and Joe Biden personally answered. When Solomon started to ask questions, Biden quickly hung up. I’m guessing this was how Obama stayed in touch with Biden.
The supreme court, having being appointed by the king, has ruled and awaits the king’s return. Long live the king.
“Other ‘Bidens’, some elderly, confused and inept like Joe, others middle aged, confused and inept, like Kamala, and some even young, confused and inept like AOC, fill the system because they are how the system works. It’s not a meritocracy that elevates the best, a democracy chosen by the people, but an oligarchy that runs the system and is also the system.”
Fantastic summation!
Doesn’t matter.
Election Theft 2024 is underway, democrats just need to find the new ChiComm puppet and kill the US once and for all in January 2025.
No election will fox any of this.
States need to start legislation for secession en-masse for 2025
Finally! A cogent explanation as to what “turn” means!
I’ll be passing this along to many.
“It’s not a meritocracy that elevates the best, a democracy chosen by the people, but an oligarchy that runs the system and is also the system.” Exactly. ‘A republic, if you can keep it” – Well, we couldn’t. The question now is: how can we get rid of an oligarchy capable of transforming an insignificant individual such as Barak Obama into America’s temporary idol?
it’s a kleptocracy
Getting America back to the the government of the US Constitution is going to be a long road.
The first ray of hope is the Supreme Court striking down the Chevron doctrine which will allow the people to take overreaching federal agencies, who now really run the country, to court. They are staffed by indoctrinated leftists who need to be cleared out and the agencies restructured or abolished. Hopefully Trump and a majority Republican/MAGA Senate and House can start this.
Then we have the leftist legacy media and the social media who are the propaganda organs who freely lie and manipulate much of the public. Hopefully enough people will realize that they been lying to us at least since Walter Cronkite and start turning to more accurate news sources including Fox and Newsmax.
Next is the public education system which has degenerated into a leftist indoctrination system for children, who have now been miseducated for at least two generations. This is possibly the most time-consuming and difficult as the whole educational system has been restructured by the left to produce leftist teachers.
There is hope, but not much time left, as the damage done the the US and the world is nearly completed.
you literally hit the nail on the head with unbridled truth excellent article this needs to be read by every American who thinks that we have a working system of elections. like the (wizard of oz) pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!!