{"id":4432,"date":"2021-08-27T01:31:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T05:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=4432"},"modified":"2021-08-27T22:09:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T02:09:25","slug":"credit-where-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/credit-where-due\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit where due"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruce Bawer spreads the love around<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For four years, we had a president who, over the course of a single term, managed to undo a great deal of the mischief wrought, and a great many of the mistakes made, by his recent predecessors. Trump revived America\u2019s economy, shored up Americans\u2019 individual liberties, forged several remarkable peace agreements, and greatly strengthened our international position\u2014thus firmly checking the ambitions of our powerful adversaries.<\/p>\n

But, Biden voters, he had a personality that rubbed you the wrong way. He wrote nasty tweets. In the language of TV production, he was too \u201chot.\u201d You wanted \u201ccool.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s gotta be the first time the words “Biden” and “cool” have ever been seen in the same sentence, I’m thinkin’. And even then, it was in the “temperature” sense, kinda-sorta.<\/p>\n

The Democrats put up a candidate who was plainly in mental decline. It was obvious every time he spoke. But you didn\u2019t pay terribly close attention to his speeches. The sources from which you get your \u201cnews\u201d carefully clipped out all of the bits of his appearances in which his befuddlement was manifest. If you heard someone speak out about his senility, you dismissed the charges out of hand.<\/p>\n

Biden also had a less-than-stellar professional history. He\u2019d spent decades in the Senate as little more than a fixture, an empty suit, a vapid, smiling shill for the credit-card companies and other corporations based in his shabby little state. In the lead-up to the 2020 election, mountains of evidence were made public indicating that Biden was even more deeply corrupt than we already knew, taking massive bribes from nefarious foreign powers.<\/p>\n

Yes, that story was banned from social media. Still, you could have known about it if you\u2019d had the slightest bit of curiosity\u2014and the slightest sense of civic responsibility.<\/p>\n

Presumably you don\u2019t like Alpha Males. Most likely you saw Trump as a wellspring of toxic masculinity.<\/p>\n

It never occurred to you, apparently, that in a complex and dangerous world, it might be a\u00a0good thing<\/em>\u00a0for the most important and powerful country to have a strong, self-assured, can-do individual at the helm\u2014a man who knew how to reassure allies and strike fear into enemies.<\/p>\n

You didn\u2019t have a clue about how power works in the real world. You should have. You were a grown-up. You had no excuse.<\/p>\n

Trump understood power. He\u2019d made his fortune in the toughest arena in American business: New York real estate. His experience in the private sector made him a perfect choice for president: for four years, he used the talents he employed to make himself rich to make America great again.<\/p>\n

But you didn\u2019t see it.<\/p>\n

Biden was rich, too. Not as rich as Trump, but plenty rich. The difference was that he\u2019d amassed his millions not through hard work or talent but by selling his influence. Like many another politician, he whored himself out, betraying his voters, his state, and his country.<\/p>\n

But what did that matter to you? You acted as if you were voting for a morning talk-show host or veteran local news anchorman. Or a ma\u00eetre d\u2019. It\u2019s as if you didn\u2019t even have a concept of the role a president of the United States plays on the global stage.<\/p>\n

Well, now you know. At least I hope you know. If you don\u2019t know now, you never will. And if you\u2019ve still managed to miss all the obloquy heaped on the man you voted for\u2014well, congratulations. That\u2019s quite a coup.<\/p>\n

Thanks to you—yes, you (look in the mirror!)—Biden, in the eyes of military experts around the world (and, for that matter, the eyes of anyone on the planet with an ounce of sense), has pulled off the most disastrous military operation in modern times.<\/p>\n

As a result, America has reached perhaps the lowest point in its history. Biden has betrayed every member of our own armed forces. He\u2019s betrayed every Westerner stationed in Afghanistan. And he\u2019s betrayed every last one of our allies,\u00a0none<\/em>\u00a0of whom he even bothered to consult with before issuing his catastrophic orders.<\/p>\n

In doing so, he\u2019s dramatically increased the likelihood that China will invade Taiwan or that Russia will invade some place in Eastern Europe. Commentators who a couple of weeks ago were still covering up for Biden are now admitting that he\u2019s beyond incompetent and that this single event could spell the end of America as a superpower.<\/p>\n

Last Saturday, in an impassioned\u00a0j\u2019accuse<\/em>,\u00a0Boston Herald\u00a0columnist Howie Carr asked: \u201cAre you happy now, Biden voters?\u201d<\/p>\n

Carr\u2019s assumption was that any cognizant, conscientious Biden voter must now, at long last, be feeling buyer\u2019s remorse. But I suspect otherwise. Of all of you Biden voters, the one I know best has just celebrated on Facebook the fact that Rachel Maddow\u2014the individual who has perhaps done more than anyone to demonize Trump and whitewash Biden\u2014has signed a new contract with MSNBC.<\/p>\n

So I guess even the catastrophe in Kabul isn\u2019t even enough to make you rethink your vote. Even now, you\u2019re still not through coughing up your anti-Trump bile.<\/p>\n

I guess that the question, then, is this: will you ever be? In the times to come, as you witness the consequences of Biden\u2019s incompetence, will any of it affect your opinions? Years from now, will you be crawling around the rubble in the remains of the world whose destruction Biden has precipitated and still be howling about the evil that is Donald Trump?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Doubt it. They’ll all be too busy scrabbling through restaurant dumpsters for a moldy crust of bread, begging for mercy, or running for their lives at that point. Which, y’know, is fine by me. Serves ’em right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bruce Bawer spreads the love around. For four years, we had a president who, over the course of a single term, managed to undo a great deal of the mischief wrought, and a great many of the mistakes made, by his recent predecessors. Trump revived…<\/p>\n

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