White House whoppers

by Hugo Gurdon

Joe Biden winning the presidency may turn out very badly for the Democratic Party because success obscures problems that need fixing. If we’re winning, it’s working, the thinking goes, so there can’t be much wrong with what we’re doing.

This is delusional. Making Donald Trump a one-term president seems to have ended any real effort by Democrats to stop treating ordinary people as ignorant plebs. This is unwise if you want their votes and will probably come back and bite the party as election cycles roll on.

Hillary Clinton’s 2016 comment that those who wouldn’t vote for her were “deplorables” expressed the Dems' contempt for the interests, concerns, pursuits, and intelligence of people not part of the opinion-forming elite.

The same contempt is glaringly clear in the administration’s daily denial of obvious truths, many of which are on video played on TV while Dems are spinning at full throttle. They seem to think lumpen proles can be persuaded by flat denials to disbelieve what they see with their lying eyes.

Recent falsehoods are jaw-dropping. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified to Congress on Sept. 22 that the southern border is “no less secure” now than under the previous administration. Simultaneously, TV viewers watched thousands of illegal aliens stream across the Rio Grande, gather in a squalid camp, then take buses into the American heartland. Even in Trump’s last month as president, after Biden invited migrants north saying, “You should come,” illegal crossings rose only to 74,000. They are now running at three times that rate — more than 200,000 a month.

Likewise, as Americans watched our humiliating exit from Afghanistan, Jen Psaki insisted that the shambolic rout could not be described as “anything but a success.” And the administration was anyway juicing the numbers by taking people from Kabul‘s streets who had nothing to do with America’s war effort. Its policy amounted to “never mind who we fly out, just get as many as possible.” Active allies, U.S. citizens, and green card holders were left behind.

Want more examples? Very well then.

When asked on Sept. 14 by Sen. James Risch, an Idaho Republican, about White House staff cutting off President Gaffe’s microphone to prevent him from being heard, an incident widely reported and seen by millions, Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified that it was not so. Risch countered incredulously, “Are you telling this committee this does not happen?” Blinken answered, “That is correct.” At which point one is left mouthing silently like a goldfish, for there is not much one can say.

Finally, as Daniel Henninger noted in the Wall Street Journal, Biden himself recently argued that up was down and black was white; in his speech about his megatrillion-dollar spending plan, he averred, “I am a capitalist,” and later, “I am not a socialist.” Uh-huh.

He and his lieutenants think you’re stupid. They think you won’t notice their daily doses of BS. But it is they, not you, who have their heads where the sun don’t shine.

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