The liberty principle for this Freedom Friday concerns coups being used by Leftists in politics. We hear Leftists shout for and fake fighting for “democracy,” but they operate behind the scenes through coups. Victor Davis Hanson discussed three Leftist coups taking place in the past four years as Democrats sought for and used power.
Hanson’s first coup took place in March 2020
when “all the major Democratic primary candidates abruptly, mysteriously, and
in near unison withdrew from the presidential race, ceding the nomination to
Joe Biden.” It did not seem to matter that “Biden had lost the first three
races in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada – and only won his first victory in
South Carolina. It also did not seem to matter that Biden was already
displaying “obvious symptoms of serious cognitive decline” that “seemed to
mount through the 2020 campaign” and “dementia continued to accelerate during
his first three years as president.” Biden and his family “enjoyed the
ceremonial functions of the presidency.”
The second coup took place when former
President Barack Obama and his family stayed in Washington, D.C., rather than
going home to Chicago or elsewhere. The coup took place when the Biden
administration outsourced “the real operations to former Obama administration officials,
consultants, and advisers.” When the puppet master could no longer hold up the
puppet (Biden), something needed to be done.
The third coup took place because “Polls revealed
an impending Trump landslide victory in November – and a massive Democratic
loss of Congress.” The Democrat “machine” of “party bosses, megadonors, and
Obama puppeteers went into action for yet a third time.”
There are rumors that the “machine” threatened
to take away all campaign funding and even “raised the specter of invoking the
25th Amendment to end his presidency. Biden was forced to suddenly
withdraw from the presidential campaign and to endorse his Vice President
Kamala Harris “as his surrogate on the ticket.”
In one
moment, the choices of nearly 15 million Biden primary voters were vitiated. No
delegates were consulted. No other alternative Democrat candidates were even
considered.
Biden was
dethroned; Harris was coronated – without much public input or even knowledge
of how or why.
Democrat
grandees stopped smearing Biden’s conservative critics, who had worried over
his dementia. Instead, they now trumped opposition criticism of Biden’s
decline.
Yet Biden
most certainly did not resign his presidency. Instead, he promised to serve out
his remaining six months in office.
So Democrat
insiders not only removed their leading candidate, who for the prior six months
had won all the 2024 primaries and almost all the delegates but insisted that
Biden keep Democrats and himself in power – but only if he agreed to quit the
race.
In other words and according to Hanson, a “cabal
arbitrarily decided that Biden might well lose the Democrats the White House
and the Congress.” Hanson continued, “So, they reversed course, now claiming
his dementia was so acute as to destroy their prospects Nov. 5.” Even though
Biden could not campaign well enough to win re-election, “his decline was not
severe enough to imperil the American people” while he serves as President
until January 20.
In addition, the machine chose Kamala Harris, a
person who had not entered any primary and “never won a single delegate.” In
addition, Harris “never captured a single delegate” when she ran for president
in 2020.
Hanson claimed that the “same operators” ran
all three coups. They used Biden until he became a liability. However, they
insist that “he was still fit enough to keep the Left in power” until Harris
can be inaugurated.
The most amazing fact of all the coups is that
the very people conducting the coup “sanctimoniously lectured America that ‘democracy
dies in darkness.’”
