Biden's 'Return to Normalcy' Is Going to Be Terrible

Townhall.com ^ | November 25, 2020 | Ben Shapiro

[Kaslin]

After spending two years avoiding serious questions about his policy preferences, his team and his prospective presidency, we now know what Joe Biden intends to do should the Electoral College, as expected, vote for him in December: He'll reopen the swamp for business. The media spent four long years suggesting that President Donald Trump was steeped in corruption, ensconced in partisanship, enmeshed in dangerous foreign policy fiascos. The media assured us that they would defend democracy from Trump's brutalities, that they would spend every waking moment fighting to prevent anyone from accepting Trumpian standards as the "new normal."

Instead, the media suggested we needed to return to the old "normal" -- by which they meant a system in which the media and Democrats worked hand-in-glove together to lie to the American public about the content of policy ("If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor!" -- former President Barack Obama); in which conventional wisdom was treated as gospel truth, no matter how wrong it was ("There will be no advanced and separate peace with the Arab world without the Palestinian process" -- John Kerry on Israel); and in which cozy relationships between corporations and government were considered de rigueur.

They meant a system in which all difficult political questions were put off for another day; in which scandals were brushed off without a second thought; in which even anti-journalistic efforts by Democrats were dismissed as out of hand. It was a system in which constitutional boundaries were routinely overridden in the name of left-wing policy priorities; in which nasty rhetoric by Democrats was written off as a natural byproduct of the right's innate evil; in which alternative news sources were treated as conspiracy outlets.

That's the "normal" the media and Democrats wanted.

And it's the normal they'll apparently be pursuing. Biden is stacking his administration with all the members of the establishment Democratic gang. Tony Blinken, most famous for embracing the Iran deal and encouraging more American troops in Syria, will be headed to the State Department. Janet Yellen, fresh from her tenure as Federal Reserve chairwoman under Obama, will be headed to the Department of the Treasury. Jake Sullivan, Biden's national security adviser when he was vice president, most famous for the suggestion that the Iran deal was a stellar piece of negotiation (it wasn't), will become the White House national security adviser.

Meanwhile, the media will continue to cover Biden in sycophantic fashion. This week, The Washington Post ran an entire piece devoted to the wonders of the New Biden Era, titled "Washington's establishment hopes a Biden presidency will make schmoozing great again." The piece celebrated the old normal as "respect for experience and expertise," as "civility and bipartisan cooperation," as an opportunity to "bring people back together." One wonders what sort of peyote the editorial staff of The Washington Post must be ingesting in order to remember the Obama Era so fondly; then, one quickly realizes that they're simply high from huffing Democratic flatulence.

The old normal wasn't good. That's why Donald Trump was elected. It's why Democrats nearly lost the House, and why they seem poised to not take back the Senate despite Trump's personal unpopularity. The old normal stank of cronyism and oligarchy, of corrupt relationships between the Democratic infrastructure and the Democrats' praetorian guard in the media.

Today, the media celebrate the return of the old normal. That celebration is likely to again result in a backlash they can't control. And they'll be just as puzzled as ever about why everyone else wasn't as overjoyed as them about the return of the establishment Democratic swamp.

[georgia peach]

I thought the same thing.

[foreverfree]

bump

[Kaslin]

That Guy Benson became a Fox News contribitor should be proof enough that he is the #Never Trumper and not Ben Shapiro.

Guy Benson FOX News Contributor and FOX News Radio host Guy Benson currently serves as a FOX News Channel (FNC) contributor and host of FOX News Radio's (FNR) The Guy Benson Show (weekdays 3-6PM/ET). He joined the network as a contributor in 2013.

[CodeToad]

This communist crap is why guns sales are through the roof and ammunition is scarce as people buy it to fight.

[rintintin]

“ Given Ben is a long-time never-Trumper, hope it causes him discomfort.”

Ben seems to want to move on to the Biden presidency. Sorry, Trump is still president and the election literally isn’t over.

[Hardastarboard]

The good news here, if there is any, is that everyone Biden is choosing is a mediocrity, like Biden himself. These aren’t to getters / high achievers. Hopefully that translates to minimal “progress” by his team.

[Vaduz]

If the Electoral College is doing the right thing.

To me it’s like hoping to see the audit of how much and where the democrats spent all the cash.

[deadrock]

I’ve never heard of Guy Benson and I don’t understand your correlation with Shapiro.

[x]

Benson isn’t a Never Trumper — or at least not a Trump hater. He didn’t vote for Trump in 2016, but he hasn’t been as hostile to him as, say, Jonah Goldberg. Sometimes Benson criticizes Trump. Sometimes he praises him. Not so different from much of the country.