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It’s probably not too soon to imagine a political world without President Donald Trump in the White House and to sketch some optimistic and pessimistic views of the coming utopia.
In fact, much of the media have been imagining such a world
for weeks, pounding at keyboards and raising new specters: Will Trump leave
office quietly after the electoral votes have been tallied in January, or must he
be perp-walked out of office by either the Capitol Police or a contingent of
National Guard troops hastily assembled by progressives Nancy Pelosi, Chuck
Schumer, Dick Blumenthal and Alexandra Ocasio Cortez?
Here in Connecticut, lists of Trump supporters are being
compiled by distressed McCarthyite leftists fearful that Democrats who control
the state’s General Assembly – which, by the way, when does it plan to assemble
again? – the governor’s office, the State Congressional Delegation, all Connecticut’s
Constitutional offices, and the Daniel P. Malloy state Supreme Court may be
undermined by Trump supporters.
Pessimists suppose the national media will revert to type
when the Trump siege is over in January, disappointing worrywarts who imagined
Trump would crush democracy in the United States by refusing to leave office. Consequently,
four years of aggressive, analytical journalism will come to its appointed end,
and an exhausted national and state media will collapse into normalcy -- Snoozeville.
All pending investigations will be swept under the rug, and
not a whisper will be heard in the land concerning accusations brought against
the new President by a self-proclaimed feminist and "hard core Democrat" who charged that Biden
had digitally raped her. If Hunter Biden, son of the presumptive
president-elect, shot someone on Main Street during the presidency of his
father, the shot, we may be sure, will not be one heard round the world. If
Hunter were to be appointed Ambassador to communist China by his dad, the
slumberous media, exhausted by six years of woke journalism, would be found
snoozing at computer terminals.
ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter will be subdued during the early
presidential years of Biden-the-moderate, provided he does not depart too much
from the Democrat Party script, the progressive Democrat Party Platform
hammered out by Bernie Sanders, Vermont socialist, and presumptive moderate
president-elect Biden, whose media honeymoon is likely to last much longer than
presumptive president-unelect Trump’s non-honeymoon. There will be no more
beheadings of Columbus statutes in Connecticut, which may survive Wave Two of
Coronavirus, thanks to Trump’s strenuous
efforts in quickly extracting a vaccine from Big-Pharma.
The nation’s two political parties will bury the hatchet in
each other’s backs as usual, but the sound of tumbrels racing to the guillotine
will be muffled by calls for moderation and accommodation. Lions – Pelosi,
Schumer and Blumenthal – will down with lambs, and everyone, most especially the
nation’s media, will pretend not to notice the dizzying depth of US debt. The
national debt is cresting at $23.3 trillion and Connecticut’s debt, roughly $67 billion, has been
characterized by Lamont as “a big deal. We probably have more debt and unfunded
pensions than any other state in the country.”
Perhaps the only notable economist/politician in Connecticut
who appears to be concerned with debt is former Comptroller General of the
United States David
Walker who ran in separate campaigns for both Lieutenant
Governor in 2014 and Governor in 2017.
Is Biden a moderate or a progressive? Is he suffering from
creeping dementia? Has the Biden family been enriched by the presumptive
president-elect’s half century in politics? Will a president Biden cozy up to
the mullahs in Iran, as did President Barack Obama, who dispatched to Iran’s
Great Satan killers planeloads of cash the mullahs distributed to Middle East
terrorists through their conduit, Major General Qasem Soleiman, whose career was
terminated by Trump over the protestations of Blumenthal and Schumer, two
Jewish politicians who bit their tongues when Obama sent operatives into Israel
to oust Benjamin Netanyahu from power.
None of these issues have been explored at length by a media
that was unable or unwilling to draw Biden out of a presumed Coronavirus bunker
during his presidential campaign. After a half century in politics, Biden is
perhaps the least exposed presumptive president-elect in US history, a charge
that cannot be laid at the feet of Trump, perhaps the most self-exposed
president in US history. In post-modern politics, braggadocio and stony silence have replaced
modesty as a virtue.
Such are the views of optimists and pessimists both in the
United States and Europe. And the media? The media is what the media does. No
one – Trump most vociferously – is satisfied with its performance during the
Trump presidency. Tone is important in politics and the presidency, but tone
will never trump policy – and the possible domestic and foreign policy
prescriptions of a Biden administration are unknown, largely owing to a fractured
Democrat Party unmoored from solid constitutional principles and its successful
manipulations of the anti-Trump media.
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