The anti-Trump hysteria of the ruling class is impossible to overstate. It is a fever that has never broken since the day he announced his bid for the presidency. Out of this sickness has come a never-ending cycle of controversy around Trump, most of it premised on the ruling class’s view of him as inherently illegitimate. Hence, the ruling class has treated his every act of presidential power, no matter how prosaic, as “scandalous.” Much of the coverage has come down to the pout: How dare he control the executive branch!
Trump has also committed the unpardonable sin of growing more conservative in power. This has embittered the ruling class to no end. It has usually broken Republican presidents and brought them to heel. Not in Trump’s case. He has only grown more contemptuous of the Washington “consensus” against common sense. Had Trump reverted to Manhattanite liberalism, the ruling class would have cut him some slack. Instead, he committed such odious acts as showing up in person at the March for Life rally.
MSNBC runs a coronavirus death toll box at the bottom of the screen — a symbol of the ruling class’s holier-than-thou quest to try and defeat Trump on that issue. But one death toll box you will never see is the abortion one. The ruling class is responsible for sanctioning the deaths of millions of unborn children. Its disregard for those lives couldn’t be any more reckless and blatant. Yet it lectures Trump on “callousness” and “irresponsibility.”
The Democrats are the party of safety and prudence, they say, even as the party’s mayors preside over the most unsafe cities in America, even as the Democrats imprudently demand open borders for illegal immigrants.
The lectures on public health and safety are a little hard to take from libertines who refused to take any public-safety measures against the AIDS epidemic, on the grounds that lifestyle liberalism trumped public-health precautions. To this day, Democrats, including Joe Biden, want unsafe measures taken to accommodate risk-taking libertines. On Biden’s campaign website, he says that he will fight to make sure that LGBTQ rights take precedence over traditional public-safety measures:
Under the Obama-Biden Administration, the discriminatory lifetime ban on blood donation based on stigma was lifted. Biden will work with the Food and Drug Administration to ensure regulations are based on science, not fiction or stigma. As proposed by the Human Rights Campaign, Biden will invest in “new research to study risk behavior” and support “[consideration of] revising the donor questionnaires so that they focus on more refined and specific behavioral criteria, like recent sexual histories that include unprotected sex or significant numbers of sexual partners over the previous year.”
We’re told that the Democrats took the coronavirus seriously and Trump didn’t. But the ruling class, in keeping with its mania for open borders, poured scorn upon Trump for banning travel from China. Biden condemned that decision for months, only relenting after the prudence of Trump’s decision became undeniable.
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