The latest piece from Andrew Sullivan is absolutely brillaint.
He's a good guy to read as he used to be on the right, now is on the left.
I wondered what he was thinking as I hadn't read him in a while so I went to his substack and found his latest piece entitled, "Will Biden And The Dems Finally Get It? Their far-left record has made the far right more electable."
It's an incredible read. His piece starts out with this anecdote
The day I received my absentee ballot from the DC government, there was a story in the Washington Post about the DC Council’s imminent vote:
The bill would eliminate most mandatory minimum sentences, allow for jury trials in almost all misdemeanor cases and reduce the maximum penalties for offenses such as burglaries, carjackings and robberies.
Over the past few years, violent crime in DC has been rising fast. Last year the murder rate was the highest since 2003, and this year the death toll is slightly higher so far. Carjackings are up 36 percent and robberies are up 57 percent.
What's his take on this election? Shockingly, he says it's everyone's moral obligation to vote for the right to try to save democracy and get the Dems to realize going crazy left is going to destroy this country and maybe democracy. If Biden and the Dems can't be sent a message of " stop the far-left defund the police, a man can give birth, immigration isn't a problem, let's teach 1st graders about gay sex (and Sullivan is gay himself) nonsense, and get centrist" - then the country will have to choose between far right and far left and Sullivan says he has no doubt the result will be far right.
So guess what? I’m going to vote for the Republican and the most conservative Independent I can find next Tuesday. And I can’t be the only Biden and Clinton and Obama voter who’s feeling something like this, after the past two years.
There was no choice in 2020, given Trump. I understand that. If he runs again, we’ll have no choice one more time. And, more than most, I am aware of the profound threat to democratic legitimacy that the election-denying GOP core now represents. But that’s precisely why we need to send the Dems a message this week, before it really is too late.
He just destroys Biden for supporting policies that the average American doesn't like at all.
He returned instead to his previous 2020 electoral blackmail: you have no choice but to vote for Democrats because the far right is so hostile to democracy. To which my answer would be: Well, I did that already. And I was treated like an easy mark by the Dems — who pocketed my vote and ignored all of my concerns. Voting for an actual election denier would remain a dealbreaker for me. But otherwise, when Trump is not on the ballot, why would I be suckered by the woke left again?
Worse than this bait-and-switch is the condescension that came with it. Think of the absolute assertions by the Biden administration and their media flunkies: The border is secure. Covid vaccines prevent infection. There is no CRT in high schools. The lab-leak theory and Hunter Biden’s corruption were disinformation. There is no medical debate about fast-track, affirmation-only, sex changes for minors. Inflation is caused by corporate greed. Women in college always tell the truth; and men always lie. A president can forgive student loans by fiat. Debt doesn’t matter. A woman can have a penis. The people who attack Asian-Americans are all white supremacists. The idea of individual merit is racist. Can you think of any social issue where the Biden administration hasn’t taken the position of the illiberal “social justice” left?
He really hopes the Dems wake up and go center or the country may face a disgusting choice - far right or far left.
The Weimar dynamic is a simple one. The left and right polarize; the middle collapses; inflation takes off, unnerving everyone and discrediting government; and at some point, as liberal democracy breaks down, voters are asked to choose between the extreme left or the extreme right.
I'm not sure why I was so shocked by the piece. I guess just the way it was written surprised me. As in the end, the piece really confirms what I said all along - both Trump and Biden are a disgrace. Trump's insantiy was checked in 2020 and he reacted like a toddler, now it's time to stop Biden.
