At times like this, Americans naturally look to their government to punish those responsible for murdering one of our own, and to ensure that such a thing cannot happen again. Despite the Biden administration’s past dithering and active attempts to tie the Israelis’ hands in the Israel-Hamas war, surely this was a turning point which only the most blinkered Leftist could ignore. And at first, signs were somewhat encouraging, as President Biden and Vice President Harris headed to the Situation Room to try to negotiate a deal for the hostages. Allegedly, they were “working around the clock” for this result. Yet now, even after it’s clear that the only son of two grieving parents who begged for his life from the floor of the DNC had been murdered on their watch, who did President Biden blame for the hostages not being home yet? The same person as always: Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.
Where to even begin? Well, at the risk of stating the obvious, Netanyahu did not kill Hersh Goldberg-Polin. In fact, if Netanyahu had not been delayed in entering Rafah, where Hersh Goldberg-Polin was being held, those poor parents might have got their son back. But while support for Netanyahu to finish the war as quickly and mercilessly as possible make immaculate foreign policy sense, it would have endangered the Democrats’ electoral prospects in Michigan, alienated their genocidally antisemitic woke base, and put the lie to the Obama-era delusion that America’s problems in the third world are due to us not bending over backwards enough for terrorists and autocrats. So it won’t happen. Because Democrats don’t care about protecting the American people, when protecting the American people endangers their illiberal and extreme ideological agenda.
What’s more, this is unfortunately not an isolated incident. In fact, the problem is arguably even worse in our own sphere of influence. Which is why we now must turn our eyes southward to Brazil, where Elon Musk’s X is now banned on the grounds of promoting “disinformation,” even as the Brazilian government is demanding X appoint a Brazilian “legal representative” (who will presumably be immediately arrested), not to mention arresting anyone from Brazil who uses a VPN to access X. In other words, an American business which makes its money by allowing free speech is now under sanction by a major South American power (and titular US ally) precisely for fulfilling its quintessentially American mission.
And what is the Biden administration’s response? Only a curt response that they are “monitoring the situation.” At time of writing, there has been no threat of sanctions, no diplomatic attempts to smooth the situation over, no gentle cajoling of a country dependent on US goodwill to cease its dictatorial judicial war on speech, nothing. And why? Because secretly, the Democrats wish they could do the same thing to Musk, whose purchase of X has permanently broken the woke stranglehold on the internet and made the digital witch trials of the Trump era a source of deserved shame even for liberals. Again, this is an American business – one of the most consequential American businesses on the planet – and the Democrats are permitting a foreign power to persecute it because it puts their agenda at stake. Because Democrats don’t care about protecting American business or constitutional rights, when that business or those rights endangers their illiberal and extreme ideological agenda.
What about on the domestic front? Is there any cause for “joy” there? Who are we kidding, you know there isn’t. Because you know what the Democrats will protect, even from things which they should be able to handle on their own? Their Potemkin presidential nominee, Kamala Harris. At time of writing, Harris has done precisely one utterly vapid, unconvincing televised interview with CNN; an interview in which even the preapproved questions and friendly posture of the network couldn’t disguise her transparent lack of substance. Worse still, when Harris does gesture toward substance, her ideas are utterly unworkable, to the point that her own allies have to reassure skeptical donors and constituencies that they’ll never pass in Congress. Real vote of confidence, there.
If you think this is a symptom of a grossly unprepared and deeply flawed nominee…well, you’re correct. But that’s not all it is. It’s also a symptom of a party which cannot state its agenda out loud, because when you observe that agenda in action, you realize how dangerous and illiberal it actually is.
They cannot say that they want to shut down businesses which permit people to commit thoughtcrime, but they do.
They cannot say that Americans deserve to be captured, tortured, and shot by Hamas for the simple crime of being in Gaza while Jewish, even if their base clearly believes that.
They cannot say that their nominee should be exempt from questions because of her identity, or because they’d even vote for a dead dog (or at least a senile one) against Donald Trump for the sake of “saving democracy” (read: rule by Democrats), even though their actions plainly display that they believe both those things. They are stuck doing nothing and arguing for nothing, in the hopes that America will vote for their nominee in order to find out what she believes, just as they tell us to pass legislation so that we can find out what’s in it. Their agenda is all they care about, and yet their agenda is precisely the thing they can’t say out loud and can’t act on too obviously because if they did, Americans would recoil. Which is why they do nothing, say nothing, and act as if they owe you – the voter – nothing in exchange for your vote.
Don’t fall for it. When American citizens are killed by bloodthirsty terrorists abroad, you deserve a government that responds with lethal efficiency, not one that dithers in meetings and then blames the victims. When American business is targeted by power-mad foreign paper pushers, you deserve a government that doesn’t just “monitor the situation,” but acts to solve it. When a person stands before you and asks for your vote to be president of the United States, you deserve to hear that person tell you what they’ll do and to face the appropriate level of scrutiny from a press which doesn’t play favorites, but which actually believes that Democracy Dies In Darkness, rather than using it as a slogan to justify casting a cloak of silence over their preferred candidate.
You, the voter, deserve all of that. But only one candidate is prepared to offer it. We know who that is, and after this past week, we suspect a lot of people will be more hungry than ever for him to resume power.
