See, here’s how it works for Democrats. When a Republican is president, everything is horrible and bad and Doomy and Democracy Is In Danger. Fascism and authoritarianism is right around the corner, if not happening right freaking now. The world hates the U.S. and so do the Democrats
When a Democrat is in office, everything is peachy keen, unicorns are flying around, everyone has sustainable, fair trade lollipops, the scent of roses is in the air, and the world loves the U.S. And Dems love the U.S.
Guess where we’re at now, per Frida Ghitis at CNN?
The reason we know it’s about to get better
Is it morning in America yet? Not quite. But there’s change in the air, and millions of Americans must surely be experiencing the unmistakable feeling that even if the worst is not over, it soon will be.
Optimism has long been one of the distinguishing features of the United States and its people. That sunny disposition clouded over for at least half the country after Donald Trump won the presidency four years ago. That era is now coming to an end, but not before converging with the most catastrophic public health crisis in a century.
Optimism from Democrats? Everything from them is about how horrible America is. Even Obama winning didn’t erase Dems telling us that America is racist and sexist and horrible.
Is it reasonable now for those of us who found the Trump presidency abhorrent to rekindle our optimism?
First, a confession: as much as I have written about the dangers posed by Trump, I spent the past four years telling my most pessimistic friends that I remained convinced American democracy, with its deep roots, would survive Trump’s onslaught. Another confession: I had more doubts than I let on.
What, exactly, did Trump due to harm “American democracy?” If results are to be believed, more people than ever voted in a general election. Who’s freedom was taken away? What freedom’s were taken away? Other than in areas mostly run by Democrats during COVID lockdowns, of course
Biden’s first cabinet choices bring qualified, decent, respected public servants back into government. After an administration that slammed America’s door to refugees, that separated migrant children from their parents and put them in cages, we will have a Department of Homeland Security, responsible for guarding the borders, led by a man who came to the United States as a refugee. Alejandro Mayorkas, a Cuban-born Jew, fled the communist dictatorship as an infant with his family. His mother’s family had fled the Holocaust.
Unity, folks! Forgetting that Obama built those cages. Who was VP then? Looks like Biden is just going to open the doors.
The President who became an idol to White supremacists, who found “very fine people on both sides” in clashes between protesters flashing Nazi salutes and chanting “Jews will not replace us” and those declaring that America stands against prejudice, is being succeeded by one who is bringing in capable public servants of all ethnicities and backgrounds into government. While Trump once made a cringeworthy spectacle of having his cabinet, one at a time, praise him on live television, Biden is nominating a director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, who announced to him and the world, that she will disagree with him and “speak truth to power.”
That fine people lie yet again.
After turning its back on much of the world and seeing America’s standing collapse, the Biden team is telling US allies, “America is back!”
See, only when a Democrat is president is America’s world standing great. Yeah, America is back to being squishy rather than America First. Jumping to the end
American democracy just survived what is arguably the most vicious attack it has ever faced. The American system held up. The American people, voters, patriotic public servants, made it happen. What could be a greater cause for optimism about the future?
Have you ever noticed that these screeds are always short on any actual evidence of Democracy In Peril, on what the system survived. Say, what does she mean by “patriotic public servants”? That they helped the cheat? But, hey, if Democrats want to be optimistic about higher taxes, higher cost of living, kowtowing to nations like China and Iran, government restricting their freedom and choice, well, they’re mentally deranged. And we know that they still hate America.
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