The left wants to push its issues in every aspect of society, while the right wants non-political spaces — like sports, weather, theme parks and drinking a beer.
Robert Cahaly (Trafalgar polling)
Early Tuesday, Biden revealed his path to victory in his re-election announcement, a video titled “Freedom” that opens with footage of the Capitol protests to keep fear alive in his must-have voting blocs. Since January 2021, he’s yelled “abortion” and “voter suppression” to frighten woman and Blacks, called Republicans “fascists” to agitate the young – so this video promised he’d “defend democracy” and “stand up for our personal freedoms, right to vote, and civil rights.”
He hopes, of course, Trump is his opponent; thereby scaring those three go-to voting blocs again. How he wins 81 million votes is a real question when his 37% approval is lower than Trump’s this close to the 2020 election (source: Gallup). 70% of voters, including 51% of Democrats, do not even want him to run again (source: The Hill). Biden is a wounded duck, so leave it to Trump to explain Biden’s “calamitous and failed presidency.”
School kids “are being indoctrinated by left-wing zealots.” Crime’s rising because Democrats “release violent criminals from jail in mass.” Biden’s “socialist spending calamity” caused runaway inflation, and “woke” military has the world on the “very brink of World War III.” These have cost Biden key 2020 voting blocs; he’s down 14 points with women and 9 points with suburban voters (source: CNN).
Republicans hate him, and Independents will dump him if Trump’s not the GOP nominee; so, who supports this guy? Answer: a bifurcated coalition of liberal elites, who supply the ideology and funds, and aggrieved identities, who supply the votes. It’s a shotgun wedding that comes together for elections and is at odds thereafter; the ruling elites don’t actually fix the aggrieved’s problems (e.g. failed black schools) and the aggrieved don’t spare the communities where the elites live (e.g. Sa Francisco).
The aggrieved identities want succor; either free stuff or emotional rescue (agree they are victims). Out-crowds always want free stuff, but Biden’s selling the 1619 Project, gender fluidity, abortion-on-demand, and science dogma. He has to, because of the 2020 exit polls: his “aggrieved” were 90% of Blacks, 72% of LGBTQs, 63% of unmarried women, and 60% of voters under age 30. Their hard histories are fact, so Biden and his media allies easily keep their fear and loathing alive.
At the top is a self-anointed ruling vanguard of senior business executives, media influencers, politicians, and professors, who’ve rarely known hardship, usually been educated in upper-tier colleges, and mostly live in blue megacities on the coasts. Hoover Institution’s Thomas Sowell cites their talking points as windows into their minds; i.e. “deplorable” conservatives are “bitter clingers” who live in “flyover” America. They tie their prospects to a new world order of disruptive economics and globalism; green energy and multinational entities that supersede state and national interests.
Biden does the bidding of this ruling vanguard. That’s why Facebook’s Zuckerberg spent $400 million in 2020 to help Democrats, and teachers union head Randi Weingarten said, “Joe Biden will combat the spread of the coronavirus.” If you were trying to get Meta back into China or enrich crappy teachers, you would want a friend in the White House too. And, it’s not like they have truth or wisdom on their side.
Facebook did block fact-based breaking news from the New York Post (Hunter Biden’s laptop), and more Americans did die from COVID on Joe Biden’s watch than Trump’s. Without truth and wisdom on their side, these elites pay to insert an ideological agenda most voters reject at the ballot box. They use economics, entertainment, regulations, and education to indoctrinate voters, especially the young – and rarely foresee the consequences. A few examples:
A Bud Light executive launched a transgender PR campaign to “elevate” the brand, and sales fell 17% in a week (source: NielsenIQ). The NBA put “Black Lives Matter” on its courts, and lost 4 million viewers. Biden ordered an indefinite pause on federal oil and gas leases, and now 73% of voters oppose his energy policies. Oberlin College falsely accused a local bakery of racism, and lost $36.6 million after the bakery’s (white) owners sued the school.
Why lose customers and money to support the outrage du jour or appease a narrow interest group? The short answer is it’s somebody else’s money, but the scary truth is elite schools have produced intellectual-yet-idiotic partisans for years. Take Bud Light’s Alissa Heinerscheid, who thought broadening a customer’s provincial views was a good idea, landing her on “involuntary” leave. Her description of her business plan reminded me of 16-year-old me.
“So I had this super clear mandate. It’s like, we need to evolve and elevate this incredibly iconic brand. OK, what does evolve and elevate mean? It means inclusivity. It means shifting the tone to reflect you in the work. I mean, Bud Light had been kind of a brand of fratty, kind of out-of-touch humor, and it was really important that we had another approach” (i.e. hiring a trans influencer).
Heinerscheid still talks like the girl depicted in now-deleted Facebook photos; chugging beers and blowing up condoms like balloons in 2006 at Harvard’s Boozefest. Rather than sell beer, she opted to de-construct the world her “fratty” father and “out-of-touch” grandmother left her. In the process, she hurt her employer and her employability (NBER reports 68% of the S&P 1500 are run by Republicans, surely with a “super clear mandate” to keep core customers).
The common thread woven through this post is that America’s liberal elites are reckless. The CEO of Anheuser-Busch, Brendan Whitworth, confirmed this in his deeds (relieved Heinerscheid) and words: “We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. My time serving this country taught me the importance of accountability and the values upon which America was founded: freedom, hard work and respect for one another.” Bingo!
So – who supports Biden? Mostly people who claim they love America – but want to change almost everything about it. Like the six wokesters above, who learned the hard way that Sic Temper Tyrannis (thus always to tyrants) is alive and kicking.
- Alissa Heinerscheid, former Bud Light VP
- Don Lemon, former CNN host
- Sam Brinton, former DOE assistant secretary
- Gigi Sohn, former FCC nominee
- Nina Jankowicz, former Minister of Truth
- Bob Chapek, former Disney CEO
