Victor Davis Hanson
7. Coups—the backroom nullification of voters. Over 14 million Democratic voters chose Joe Biden in 2024 to be the Democratic nominee. No other contender came close. Yet after a disastrous early debate on June 27, 2024 (unprecedented given that it preempted both the conventions and the nominations of the candidates), backroom Democratic pols and donors, terrified over Biden’s ineptness on the dais, staged a veritable slow-motion coup.
After 28 days of constant insider pressure, President Joe Biden, the sole primary winner, was forced to drop out from the 2024 race and cede to replacement Kamala Harris. Harris had never entered a primary in her life—neither in her disastrous aborted 2020 presidential bid (against Biden) nor in her 48-hour effort to be coronated Biden’s successor as the nominee. No matter if Biden was deposed, Harris was now crowned the nominee in the best 19th-century Boss Tweed style.
In truth, the Harris appointment was the third veritable coup in the effort to select rather than elect Democratic presidential candidates. The first was in February–April 2020 when a flailing Joe Biden, beset by obvious escalating mental decline, lost the first three caucuses/primaries. Radicals like socialist Bernie Sanders had trounced him in New Hampshire and Nevada; even hapless hard leftist Pete Buttigieg had beaten him in Iowa.
As a result, panicked Democratic operators created a grand deal in which: 1) Sanders, Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, and all the rest of the primary field would soon exit in unison, 2) Biden, deemed the only viable pseudo-“centrist” candidate that could beat incumbent Donald Trump, would garner the black vote in the next primary in South Carolina and win, and then his “momentum” and the abdications of his rivals ensured wins in almost all the remaining primaries —but only on the condition he would serve as a useful (ol’ Joe Biden from Scranton) cognitively impaired John Gill-prop for a hard leftwing agenda. And Biden did just that in the 2020 campaign. He avoided the public, held press conferences, hid in his basement, and relied on new mail-in/early balloting rules granted under changed laws that were enacted due to COVID.
The second coup occurred when Biden could no longer fulfill his bargain even as the veneer for the leftwing project, due to his now very public dementia. So, as stated, he was summarily removed in a 28-day pressurized coup, in which he was purportedly threatened with the Pelosi-“hard way” alternative of being 25th-Amendmented unless he stepped down.
The third, as mentioned, was the effort by the coup insiders—Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, the Silicon Valley/Wall Street/media billionaire donors and operators, and the omnipresent Obamas in the shadows—to ram through Harris without any input from the people or an open-convention, and complete nullification of the prior 14-million Biden ballots.
All these machinations came from the party that warns “democracy dies in darkness.” In sum, President Joe Biden was created by a backroom coup and perished as a candidate by the same coup plotters when he demonstrated to them that he offered no further utility.
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