{"id":1537922,"date":"2025-05-24T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1537922"},"modified":"2025-05-24T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T00:20:00","slug":"joe-biden-the-mainstream-media-the-republic-we-couldnt-keep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/joe-biden-the-mainstream-media-the-republic-we-couldnt-keep\/1537922\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden, The Mainstream Media, & The Republic We Couldn’t Keep"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Biden, The Mainstream Media, & The Republic We Couldn’t Keep<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Stephen Soukup via American Greatness,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

I like Megan McArdle,<\/strong> the conservatarian political columnist for\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>. I really do. I think she\u2019s smart and talented and interesting. Best of all, she\u2019s not someone who is bound by ideology or political allegiances. Ideology and allegiance are good in some cases and in some occupations, but not in hers and not at her paper. McCardle is as close to a \u201ctruth teller\u201d as exists in the mainstream media today, and I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

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All of that said,\u00a0McArdle\u2019s column<\/a>\u00a0this week leaves me nearly despondent, mostly because it\u2019s hopelessly na\u00efve and, as a result, exposes the ridiculousness of the current American predicament.<\/strong> McArdle starts her piece by expressing sympathy for former President Joe Biden with his recent cancer diagnosis, but then jumps right in, openly and aggressively criticizing those who hid Biden\u2019s mental incapacity from the nation for the better part of four years. So far, so good. Biden deserves our sympathy, while his enablers deserve our detestation. Unfortunately, it\u2019s downhill from there, as McArdle uses her platform to call for Democrats and even her colleagues in the media to reflect on their treachery and determine how best to fix things going forward:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m convinced that deep institutional soul-searching is due in many quarters and that this conversation is too important to delay, even at the risk of adding to the Biden family\u2019s distress.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

It is impossible to read \u201cOriginal Sin\u201d\u00a0\u2026 without reaching a horrifying conclusion: The most powerful nation in the world and its nuclear arsenal were left in the hands of a man who could not reliably recognize people<\/strong> he\u2019d known for years, maintain his train of thought, or speak in coherent sentences.<\/em><\/p>\n

That\u2019s great. I agree that these are reasonable conclusions, but I still have some questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

How is it that some of us reached those same conclusions in 2020?<\/strong> How did some of us already know this would happen before he won the White House?\u00a0Why do some people\u2014Democrats and the mainstream media\u2014pretend that they need this book to explain to them now what many of us knew all along? More to the point, does anyone actually believe that the people who need to do soul searching will actually do it?<\/strong> Or, if they do, that they will come to the conclusion that they screwed up and put the nation in great jeopardy?<\/em><\/p>\n

Here are some predictions, although not particularly bold ones: No one, save maybe Megan McArdle, will do any soul-searching. No one will resolve to do anything differently in the future. No one in the media will suffer any negative career repercussions for hiding Biden\u2019s decline and openly lying to the American people.<\/strong><\/em> Indeed, some\u2014like the execrable Jake Tapper\u2014will get rich off it. Most notably, no one in the Democratic Party or Joe Biden\u2019s inner circle will suffer any sort of legal, financial, or professional consequences for their overt and inarguable criminality. If anything, they\u2019ll be lauded by their fellow partisans as heroes and saviors, brave men and women who did what had to be done to save \u201cour democracy\u201d \u2122 from the bad people. In short, nothing good will come of any of this.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the very thing that makes McArdle such an otherwise enjoyable and interesting political writer is what blinds her to the realities of the Biden cover-up and the media\u2019s complicity. As I said, she\u2019s not \u201cbound by ideology or political allegiances.\u201d That makes for intriguing and honest journalism, but it also blinds her to political reality: American politics is no longer about doing what is best for the country or for \u201cthe common good\u201d or even what is advantageous for a small set of constituents. American politics is about power, raw power, and crushing \u201cthe other side.\u201d <\/strong>It is about \u201cwinning\u201d and \u201cdefeating\u201d the enemy\u2014whether he\u2019s your neighbor, a coworker, or a (former) friend who has the audacity to think or vote differently from you. No one has time for soul searching, righting past wrongs, or punishing bad behavior. They have fights to win, and all of that is merely distracting.<\/p>\n

For years now, I\u2019ve warned about the \u201cpoliticization of everything\u201d and the degeneration of American republicanism into \u201ctotal war\u201d in the \u201ctotal state.\u201d<\/strong> As a forewarning, I\u2019ve borrowed (heavily) from the Weimar\/Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, who not only predicted the collapse of post-war Germany into totalitarianism because of its obsessions with politics but also justified the monstrosity that followed as the only possible end to the total war and the only way to rehabilitate the total state. I\u2019ve insisted, in no uncertain terms, that the division of this nation into teams\u2014into \u201cfriend\u201d and \u201cenemy\u201d groupings\u2014would ultimately be its downfall and would leave \u201cthe last great hope of mankind\u201d crippled and broken.<\/p>\n

Well, guess what?<\/p>\n

Ironically, those who claim that they were protecting Biden or were \u201csaving the nation\u201d from Trump have actually empowered Trump, making him almost entirely immune to criticism, especially from outside of the party. <\/strong>Hiding Biden\u2019s infirmities and lying to the country about them for most, if not all, of his presidency inarguably constitutes the most serious, most dangerous, and most prolonged scandal in all of American political history. And everyone involved will walk away scot-free, life, liberty, and reputation intact. That, in turn, means that there is exactly zero chance that Trump\u2019s supporters\u2014or most any Republicans, for that matter\u2014will allow their guy (the leader of their \u201cteam\u201d) to be punished, diminished, or even criticized for lesser violations of the public trust. And to be fair, why would they? Why\u00a0should<\/em>\u00a0they? Why should they stand for any attack on their guy after watching what the Democrats and the mainstream did for Biden\u00a0and got away with<\/em>?<\/p>\n

As for Democrats, they\u00a0already<\/em>\u00a0feel that their \u201cteam\u201d is getting the shaft,<\/strong> that Trump is worse than an incapacitated Biden ever could be, and that they can and should do whatever it takes to stop the president, irrespective of the consequences. They already feel the need to fight back against this new narrative, to protect their side, to save their friends, and to punish their enemies. Hilariously, the comments section at the end of Megan McArdle\u2019s column on Biden\u2019s infirmities and the need for \u201csoul searching\u201d is prefaced by the following AI-generated summary: \u201cThe comments overwhelmingly criticize the focus on Joe Biden\u2019s cognitive decline, arguing that the media should instead scrutinize the current President, Donald Trump, for his perceived mental instability and dangerous behavior.\u201d Because, of course, they do. Team\u00a0\u00fcber alles<\/em>!<\/p>\n

We know how total war in the total state turned out in Germany.<\/strong> We know that the disorder caused by the Weimar politicization of everything ended with the German people\u2014including Carl Schmitt himself\u2014trading their \u201csovereign democracy\u201d for a \u201csovereign dictator\u201d and perpetrating the most horrific crimes against millions of the most vulnerable people in society.<\/p>\n

The end of the total war is not likely to play out the same way in present-day America, but it will nevertheless be ugly and destructive.<\/strong> As both sides dig in their heels and refuse to concede even an inch to their enemies, the institutions that enable the republic are, one by one, stripped of all legitimacy. Already, the mainstream media has sacrificed its legitimacy for power. Congress, too, seems to have collapsed beyond the point of reclamation. The Biden disaster has likely destroyed the remaining vestiges of presidential legitimacy, while the courts today spend their time trying desperately to destroy what is left of theirs.<\/p>\n

No one will be punished. No one will suffer any consequences. And no one will do any soul-searching\u2014now or ever. Everything is legitimate. Everything is justified. Nothing is beyond the pale.<\/strong> They did what they had to do to keep Biden in office. Period. And roughly half the country thinks that\u2019s great.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 05\/24\/2025 – 16:20<\/span><\/p>\n

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