2016 was the Star Wars election where a plucky band of rebels blew up the Hillary Death Star and sent Barack Obama careening into oblivion, or was it Jeb Bush? 2020 was the Empire Strikes Back Election. The rotting corpse of Emperor Bidentine was installed on the throne and the rebels were battered and scattered. Now here we are for Return of the Trumpi. To torture this metaphor a little further I’m not sure if Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy are annoying enough to be Princess Leia and Yoda. But at least I’m sure that Chris Christie is Jabba the Hut.
Alright, enough of that.
As a reviled civic nationalist, I have been fighting a rear-guard action against the string of successful predictions of the dissident right for something like twenty years. They’ve been right about the Bushes and right about the Republicans in general and now we’ll find out if they’re right about the finality of, “We’re not going to vote our way out of this.” What we have in front of us is the acid test. Joe Biden has created the perfect storm to force the populace to vote for the Republicans. If he manages to win the 2024 election then nothing remains to dispute the truth of, “We’re not going to vote our way out of this.”
Granted, I’m already pretty sure it’s true. But I’ve been tempted back into the game by just how awful a mess Biden has made of the country. It’s becoming harder and harder to see the America as it was just a few short years ago. There’s not even the pretense that this isn’t the trajectory they mean to for us to be on. It’s just homeless encampments, unchecked urban violence and rust belt poverty as far as the eye can see.
It’s hard for me to see how anyone who isn’t either a welfare recipient or a true believer could look at what is happening to America and not say, “enough.” So that’s why I still have any lingering doubts about the finality of the Left’s victory. I desperately want to believe that even leftists who strive for all the progressive platitudes but live in the real world wouldn’t be horrified by the collapse of the beautiful world they once lived in and want someone to fix the zombie apocalypse that has unfolded before our eyes. Even if that someone is Donald Trump, the very devil himself.
So, here we go again. Another countdown to the “most important election in our lives,” another round of pathetic headlines by the New York Times and the Washington Post assuring us that Joe Biden, notwithstanding the fact that he can’t count past three, is the greatest president since Harriet Tubman and possibly a living saint. And that his only begotten son Hunter is completely above suspicion and, by the way, possibly a good choice for president in 2028. Oh, the pain.
Well, the only thing left for me to do is figure out who will be the Ewoks. Maybe we are. At this point I feel pathetic enough to fit the part.
Here is the person who will vote for Biden: This is an old friend. A person who has worked union jobs their entire life. They asked if I planned to retire anytime soon. I replied that, had they asked me that in 2019 I would have told them I’d be retired now. But since the last presidential election, my 401K is in the shitter and everything is a hell of a lot more expensive so retirement is not an option. (I phrased it this way because I knew they were liberal.) “Well, the market goes up and the market goes… Read more »
Forgot to add:
The opening paragraph is the funniest thing I’ve read all week.
Thanks Chemist. Adding a little humor to the apocalypse is my way of making a mad world a little more bearable.
I agree, Chris Christie as Jabba the Hut is perfect.
I also agree that it is very hard to understand why anyone with an IQ above a wintertime thermostat setting would vote for Biden given the multi-faceted catastrophe of his term.
Did you read today that Chris Cuomo just publicly said the same thing?
Tom I saw the Cuomo video. What he said makes sense but I hate the idea of having Chris Cuomo on my side for any reason.
Hi photog, I’m a reviled civic nationalist just like you but you shouldn’t put more weight on successful predictions by the dissident right than they deserve. I realized in 2004-2006, when Republicans had the presidency and both houses of congress, that we were in deep do-do. With Republican control nothing changed. Literally, nothing changed. While I like to think I’m smarter than the average bear it doesn’t mean that I have a solution for all that ails the U.S. any more than the dissident right does. Before I stopped following the Zman (please don’t think I have a grudge against… Read more »