'Moderate' Pitch for Biden Masks the Left's Tightening Grip

Real Clear Politics ^ | 19 Aug, 2020 | J. Peder Zane

[MtnClimber]

Help us get rid of Donald Trump and we’ll put the radical leftist genie back in the bottle. That’s the message liberal Democrats and Never Trumpers are sending voters aghast at the witches brew of angry protests, surging murder rates and the vicious cancel culture devouring America.

David Brooks concisely articulated this line in his Aug. 13 New York Times column. First, Brooks assured readers that the allegedly moderate “forces that brought Joe Biden the nomination are far more powerful than a few extremists in Portland and even the leftist illiberals on campus.”

Are voters really expected to believe that a handful of nuts is the reason homicides have spiked by 24% in the 50 largest cities? Or that this same tiny group of apparently tireless and omnipotent agitators is the reason Twitter has become the guillotine of today’s revolution?

Minimizing the problem, however, is essential to his glib solution: returning the reins of power to the elites who ran the show before Trump. Brooks writes: “I’m hopeful that if given power, Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer will forge a new conservative radicalism.”

Brooks never satisfactorily defines this oxymoronic concept of “conservative radicalism,” or the policies these four horsemen of enlightenment would pursue that would satisfy wary independents and wild-eyed radicals. “Moderate” Joe has already staked out positions far to the left of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton – and that’s while he’s running for office. If Democrats win big in November, trillions in new taxes, Green New Deal-inspired climate policies and an assault on shareholder capitalism will not define the outer limits of their agenda, but the starting point.

[Intar]

Nice country you have there, would be a shame if something were to happen to it...

[MtnClimber]

Public education has brainwashed people to the point that they will not question the left and will disbelieve anything said by conservatives. I hope we can defeat this leftist attack on individual liberty and freedom.

[elbook]

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“Moderate” is the thug that only beats the victim to death instead of just shooting them in the head.

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[Rurudyne]

The Left always pretends to be moderate in presidential elections. They only have to fool some of the people all of the time.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Brooks is not that stupid to actually believe what he writes, but he’s hoping enough people are stupid enough to believe it.

[proxy_user]

I looked at the headline and asked myself why moderates are selling Biden masks?

[Bishop_Malachi]

Brooks is not that stupid to actually believe what he writes, but he’s hoping enough people are stupid enough to believe it.

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There are some small group of voters who are stupid enough to believe it and cowardly enough to be influenced by it.

But there is really only one principled solution this November. Re-elect Trump and as many of his supporters to Congress as possible. Then wage a tireless legal war against the businesses, politicians, and interest groups that place their own narrow self-interests way above the national interest.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The YUGE problem has been Trump has few supporters in Congress.
This go around we will have to re-elect the Bush League Republicans, but in 2022 ans 2024 the focus must be on electing Trump Republicans and replacing Bush League Republicans.

[pepsi_junkie]

Bill Clinton had his 'Sister Souljah' moment. Souljah was a female rapper who in an interview said "If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?". People didn't trust Bill Clinton, thought he was too far left and too much of an unknown. So at his convention in '92 he threw Sister Souljah under the bus. Moderates came away relived that Clinton was socially conservative (imagine!).

There is no way Biden does anything like that, the crazies would burn the place down. In Biden's favor though is the fact that everyone thinks he's a harmless idiot so he doesn't have to prove he's not a commie to them like Clinton did.

[RoosterRedux]

The radical Left is using Biden as a Trojan Horse. The plan is that once Biden wins, the Rad Left minions will flood the WH.

[cnsmom]

Which night does Kanye speak. This week or next week?

[sauropod]

Brooks is an idiot. Admires the crease in ObaMAO’s pants he does.