Establishment Democrats and their media allies have spent the better part of a month trying to remove President Joe Biden as their presidential nominee. They care little about disenfranchising millions of fellow Democrats who voted for Biden during the party’s primary elections. They have no qualms about actively subverting the democracy of the primary process in what amounts to an intra-party insurrection.
But the ground continues shifting beneath Biden’s feet. A sizable majority of rank-and-file Democrats are now joining liberal elites in the Dump Biden Movement. A recent survey by AP and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 65% of Democrats now want Biden to voluntarily remove himself from the party’s ticket.
As a candidate - a political product if you will - Biden is not performing as designed or advertised, and a growing volume of polling data indicates he is headed for defeat in the general election. Given his poor performance, ordinary Democrats now want a replacement product. Whether through personal introspection or persuasion by their party’s national and congressional leadership, two-thirds of the president’s base has come to the conclusion that they were sold a lemon.
Pretty much everybody who has ever shopped for a pre-owned car has either bought or knows someone who bought a lemon. They didn’t intentionally buy one; they were deceived by a sleazy used car salesman lying about a vehicle they knew wasn’t up to snuff. But in Biden’s case, there was a gaggle of used car salesmen pitching a lemon to their own party members.
Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s personal physician, proclaimed the president to be “a healthy, vigorous 80-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency, “ in February, 2023. Dr. O’Connor’s diagnosis is aging about as well as an engine inspection by an amateur mechanic who doesn’t know the difference between a MacPherson strut and a gisgronifier.
In an interview with ABC News in January, Vice President Kamala Harris said, “I've spent a lot of time with Biden, be it in the Oval Office, in the Situation Room and other places – he is extraordinarily smart. He has the ability to see around the corner in terms of what might be the challenges we face as a nation or globally.” I don’t know if Biden can see around corners but a recent video suggests he has difficulty seeing the stairs on Air Force One.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was another lemon peddler. Less than six months ago, she told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “Joe Biden has vision, he has knowledge, he has (sic) a strategic thinker. This is a very sharp president in terms of his public presentation.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was as slick as any used car salesman who said of Biden, "His mental acuity is great. It's fine. It's as good as it's been over the years."
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was no less adamant in promoting her boss, telling an overly inquisitive reporter, “if you watch him every day, if you really pay attention to his record and what he has done, you will see exactly how focused he’s been on the American people,” before abruptly ending a White House briefing in March.
The villain in this scenario is not Joe Biden. It’s impossible for a normal person to watch what’s happening to him without feeling pity over how the ravages of time have left their mark on the man, and I feel genuinely bad for him. I know people suffering from degrees of cognitive decline and it’s not piling on to notice what’s happened to Biden.
The villains are the used car salesmen who sold a lemon to their own supporters by lying about Biden. Millions of Democrats voted to select him as their presidential nominee based, at least in part, on the assessment of other Democrats. Harris, Pelosi, Schumer and others were the shysters who knew they were peddling a product that clearly did not meet the expectations of those voting for him. Worse still, they weren’t just selling a car, they were abusing a human being.
The Democrat Party leadership and nearly all of the elite media pitched Biden to the base of his party, and the base bought it. Now, there’s so much buyer’s remorse that two-thirds of Democrats want him to step aside. Their mistake was to believe the con job that was peddled to them by the grifters running their party.
Like members of the Soviet Politburo in the 1970s urging Leonid Brezhnev to cling to power as general secretary, with full knowledge of his deteriorating health, Democrats propped-up Biden and deceived primary voters about what’s happening to him. They sold a lemon to millions of Democrats and now, they want a new model. Whether they get one remains to be seen.