HANSON: Democrats & Their DEI Albatrosses

By Victor Davis Hanson

A few Democratic officeholders, activists, and pundits are finally coming to their senses that their brand is toxic to a majority of the American people.

The Biden administration killed what was left of it in a number of ways. 

First, it serially lied to Americans about the cognitive decline and cancerous condition of President Joe Biden, both while in and after office.  

Only when caught did the complicit media fess up that the Biden inner circle serially misled the American people about Biden's inability to fulfill the duties of the presidency. 

Second, left-wing politicos used Biden as a waxen effigy. His job was to pose as a "moderate" cover to push through the most radical and unpopular agenda in the last half century. 

Only that way could "Old Joe Biden from Scranton" and his backroom handlers ram down the throat of the American people unpopular policies that nearly wrecked the country: hyperinflation and $7 trillion in new debt, weaponization of the government, and partisan lawfare, an open border and 12 million illegal aliens, a racialist DEI commissariat, a crackpot Green New Deal, defunding the police, biological men competing in girls' sports, and two theater-wide wars abroad. 

Third, without either a functional president or viable initiatives, the new hard-left Democrats sought to brand Donald Trump as "Hitler" and half the country who supported him as "fascists."  

For nearly nine years, the Democrats launched one failed hoax after another on the American people: "Russian collusion," "laptop disinformation," and the lying so-called "51 intelligence authorities." They proved quite willing to undermine the rule of law by manipulating the court system in efforts to destroy their bogeyman, Trump. 

Never had the American people seen a political party engineer 93 bogus indictments of a rival candidate and ex-president. Two dozen states tried to take Trump off their presidential ballots. And the Biden Department of Justice sicced an FBI SWAT team to barge into Trump's home. 

The people finally got tired of all the potty-mouthed Democrat videos, the congressional stunts and meltdowns, the pampered rich kids rioting on elite campuses, the knee-jerk obsessions with racial slurs, the firebombing of Tesla dealerships, the romanticization of left-wing political murderers -- and always the adolescent tantrums over Trump. 

The Democrats had mostly given up on democracy some 13 years ago. That was the last time they transparently and democratically nominated Barack Obama a second time as their presidential candidate. 

Ever since, their nominations have been rigged.

In 2020, party insiders -- terrified of the left-wing crazy primary field -- forced out all the leading contenders. 

Then they coronated the debilitated but still supposedly useful moderate Biden as their COVID-era candidate. Biden then bragged that he would pick his vice president on the basis of race and gender.

What followed was the most bizarre campaign in history. 

Biden stayed put in his basement and outsourced his candidacy to the partisan media.