It’s heartbreaking to see the number of Trump Republicans running for office affirming his Big Lie, when we know they know we know they know they don’t believe a word about the what they are saying. It’s Dr. Oz and J.D. Vance and many others. However, they are willing to hitchhike on the Trump train to gain power. And they do it without blushing.
In my view, it reached an unbelievable level when House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, so obsessed with being speaker of the House at any cost, actually lied about it. telling the truth.
McCarthy has publicly denied the fact that shortly after January 6, he explicitly (and on tape) told his Republican colleagues that he expected Trump to be impeached for spreading the word. inspired the uprising and McCarthy was about to tell him that he should resign.
Who in your life have you met? Lie about telling the truth?
And this brings me back to my lunch with Biden. He has clearly built a global coalition to support Ukraine, to reverse Russia’s aggression, and to defend core American principles abroad – freedom and self-determination of all. ethnicity – while the GOP is abandoning our most cherished principles at home.
That’s why so many allied leaders have said to Biden privately, as he and his team resurrected the Western alliance from the debris Trump left behind, “Thank God – America has return.” And then they add, “But for how long?”
Biden couldn’t answer that question. Because WE cannot answer that question.
Biden is not innocent in this dilemma, and neither are the Democrats – especially the leftist side of this party. Under pressure to revive the economy and face huge demands from the left, Biden has pursued expansionary spending for too long. House Democrats have also upset one of Biden’s most important bipartisan achievements – a massive infrastructure bill – by holding the country hostage to spending needs other excessive. The far left also reassures Biden and every Democratic candidate with radical notions like “take down the police” – a crazy mantra that could do the most damage to the black base. and Hispanic Democratic Party if it is done.
To defeat Trumpism, for example, we only need 10% of Republicans to abandon their party and join a center-left Biden, which is what he was elected to do and remains the focus. But we may not be able to get even 1% of Republicans to change if left-leaning Democrats are seen as defining the party’s future.
And that’s why I left lunch with the president with a full stomach but a heavy heart.
