Addendum, September 3: "They don't tell little lies"
What scale of electoral catastrophe must the Democrats be reading in their internal polling, to provoke them to their novel strategy as of this writing, of campaigning as the Republican Party? Evidently the Democratic National Convention was a more comprehensive disaster than even I had reckoned on, and the Republican convention a greater triumph, because in the week after the RNC the Biden campaign has recast itself, as the Trump campaign.
Joe Biden or anyhow his campaign, as of this writing, is campaigning against the Democrat destruction of Democrat cities, and the Democrat lockdowns in Democrat states, and expects us to believe the Democrat rioters are Republican rioters and the Democrat lockdowns are Republican lockdowns. It's as Tucker Carlson observed not long ago, "They don't tell little lies in the Democrat Party." To which I would add only, "...and they think we're stupid."
The premise of the Biden campaign manifestly is that the people are staggeringly, toweringly, mouth-breathingly dumb: the Biden campaign has quit damning Trump for his championing of the re-opening of America with its schools and its sports, long enough to blame him for the Democrat lockdowns of the schools and of sports. The same Biden campaign which had only just threatened a needless and disastrous new and national lockdown. Lies in election campaigns are ordinary enough, but lies on this order of magnitude are not found in free societies; this is Hitler blaming Churchill for the Holocaust.
No-one is more surprised than I to say it, but as of the Republican National Convention of August 2020, the Republicans are not the Stupid Party. My unsolicited advice for the GOP posted hereunder went unread so I can take no share in the credit for this reborn Republican Party so smart and so sharp, but I pray God they make a habit of this. The Democrat convention was an unforced disaster, bleak and grim, making out that America is irredeemably wicked and wants tearing down and rebuilding in the profane image of the Left, and forgetting the rules of a national political convention that it must be an event and a show.
But more than that, the Democrats in four days of primetime never said peep about two of the maybe four great questions of the campaign, namely the destruction of the big Democrat cities, and the menace and evil of China who only months ago sprayed their contagion deliberately to every corner of the planet, to wreck the economies of the world and bankrupt the governments, and to kill and sicken and terrorize the people of the world. The DNC was a fat lob-ball hanging over homeplate, and Trump and the Republicans in their convention smacked the cover off it.
And don't take my word for it: the next week Joe Biden himself was aping the Republican National Convention. Which brings me to the object of this addendum. Among the reasons for my conservatism is my confidence and even my faith in the people of this greatest nation that ever there was, that they're quite the most extraordinary race, that they know better what's good for them than their elite, and that they most emphatically are not stupid. And consequently it's my conviction that a national political campaign which depends for its premise on the towering stupidity of the people, is bound to lose. But it's up to Trump and his campaign and to Republicans and conservatives more generally to say the words.
The American press in 2020 are functionally a party press as in an authoritarian or totalitarian one-party state; their purpose at present is to drag Joe Biden's carcass over the finish line and to destroy utterly Trump and all his works, so they can scarcely be expected to explain to the people that Biden is lying to them, lies on a scale unknown in American elections. And so I propose, in the spirit of my unsolicited advice just below, a 15-second spot for full saturation at once, bearing in mind that a lie in a campaign is an opportunity, that to demonstrate to the people that the other fellow is lying to them, may be to bury him electorally:
"They don't tell little lies in the Democrat Party.
Joe Biden expects you to believe that the Democrat rioters are Republican rioters, and the Democrat lockdowns are Republican lockdowns.
Joe Biden is lying to you, and he thinks you're stupid.
I'm Donald Trump and I approved this message."
Urgency and clarity
-Support for law enforcement and punishment for law-breaking always and everywhere.
-A Made in America Policy to repatriate American manufacturing from China.
-A moratorium on immigration at least until the United States is returned to full employment.
-Assurance of protections for pre-existing conditions.
Four little lines. Write them up into a joint, national platform for President Trump and Republicans standing for Congress, and the republic is saved. And that's to start; I offer herewith several useful points which it may behoove the winningest party in the greatest nation to commit to memory and to recite with some regularity.
Biden's official platform may be the first major-party platform for president which itself is the case against its candidate:
-Biden promises to legalize the estimated 22 million illegal aliens and suspend enforcement of immigration law.
-Biden promises to abolish bail nationwide.
-Biden promises to abolish nationwide the single-family-dwelling zoning that preserves suburbs.
-Biden promises to abolish "shareholder capitalism".
-Biden promises to reconsider the wages of whites to adjust for "systemic racism".
That oughtta suffice to drive Biden's share of the vote to 20%, and it's found in black-and-white among the hundred-some-odd pages of Biden's official campaign platform, if only some Republican someplace would utter the words, sometime before election day.
A little take-no-prisoners sloganeering:
-Wherever Democrats can't lose elections, life becomes unlivable.
-Where Democrats have the run of the country, the country looks like the loser in a war.
-Life under Democrats in 2020, in a word: You may not get a haircut but you may smash up and burn down the barbershop.
-The rioters and arsonists and looters and statue-topplers are Democrats to a man, and the politicians who stand down their law enforcement for the mob also are Democrats; to reward the party that smashes up and burns down the country with total power to "reimagine" our country and our lives, would be to hire the pyromaniac as chief of the fire department.
-Vote Democrat for the race war, violence, destruction, lawlessness, poverty, decay, squalor, and general societal collapse.
-Vote Republican to Make America Great Again; vote Democrat to make of it a Third World squat.
And on foreign policy:
-Biden was Obama's point-man on Iraq; he left us with a third Iraq war.
-Biden was Obama's point-man on Ukraine; on his watch Russia invaded Ukraine.
-Biden was Obama's point-man on China; he gave the country away to China for $1.5 billion to his son's phony firm.
Republicans generally have made a serviceable job of recounting Trump's triumphs, his renaissance in the economy and the national power in the three years before the Chinese invasion that is coronavirus, but they neglect some points that aren't to be neglected, not least:
-After two years of Trump America exported more energy than we import for the first time since the 1950s.
-In three years of Trump America built 12,000 factories with a net of half a million jobs in manufacturing.
-Obama-Biden left America and the world with a third Iraq war; Trump had won that war in his first eleven months, and a year later he had made the difference in Syria, vanquishing ISIS which was born under Obama and thrived so long as Obama was commander-in-chief.
Urgency and clarity, there's no urgency and clarity. The old hands are slow hands; they speak and think about the election as though 2020 is 2008 and Republicans will roar back soon enough even if they do drop this one, but very plainly the Democrat plan is that if the Rs lose this vote then they'll never win another: the Biden platform promises to pack the electorate with tens of millions of new Democrat voters from the Latin American Third World, and be assured that's one campaign promise they'd get around to in time for the next election. So that if election night is a bad night for Republicans then the country goes the way of Seattle and Portland, Chicago and Baltimore, California and New York, where Democrats can't lose and Republicans need not apply, and wherever Democrats can't lose elections, life becomes unlivable.
The Democrats promise to snatch away the very suburbs and security of white America, so that there'll be noplace but the hills to run from the race war, no remit from the cultural revolution, no refuge from the terror. But those designs of the Democrats are themselves the case against the Democrats. Urgency and clarity: they'd carry a Republican repudiation of the Democrats and the Left on November 3, if only some Republican someplace would utter the words, sometime before election day.
Leftism and totalitarianism
The impulse of leftism always and everywhere is to totalitarianism. Leftism is not an understanding that any ordinary soul arrives at by living and learning, but a construct and a conceit, and a program for the national suicide: "We must fling our borders open wide to the numberless masses who hate us and all we hold dear"; "We must empty the menaces to society from the jails into the society"; "We must stand down our law enforcement for the vicious, violent mobs who smash and burn our cities"; etc., etc. Because leftism is a suicide pact for a nation, no nation can be expected to accept it, and so the nation must be tricked or trained into leftism; leftism must must be taught and it must be enforced. And because leftism must be taught and enforced, to seize a society and to hold it, leftism must necessarily descend into totalitarianism.
