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This entire prolonged twilight of the hijacking of post-Reagan America by Democrats and look-alike Republicans is ending with slow and excruciating inexorability.
There has been a reduction of the dignity of American presidential politics in which both parties have participated.
Richard Nixon, a distinguished president of whom there remains, 50 years after his resignation, no probative evidence that he committed a crime, was an old-fashioned patriotic American.
He was so appalled at the thought of a presidential impeachment trial, which had not occurred in more than a century, that he retired rather than subject the nation to such an indignity.
Like Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson, President Nixon never accepted a cent as an ex-president to give a speech or make an appearance.
As we have seen, times have changed greatly.
Democratic disasters
Four years ago, the country had no idea that it would get 9% inflation, an absolute reduction in the purchasing power of the average family and individual, the admission of 10 million illegal immigrants, including scores of thousands of violent criminals, the worst military fiasco in American history in Afghanistan, a war in Ukraine with no exit strategy.
Not to mention a war in the Middle East where the administration has unsuccessfully attempted to straddle between the rights of Israel and trying not to offend Muslim voters in Michigan and Minnesota by saying that Israel had a right “to defend itself,” but not to take any serious reprisals against even the terrorists who inflicted the greatest murder of Jews since the liberation of the Nazi death camps in 1945.
If the public had known any of these things, it would not have voted as it did four years ago.
This does not pretend to address the concerns over the potential mischief involving millions of mail-in ballots that could have been a factor in the Democrats’ victory in 2020.
Because the 45th president’s Democratic and Never Trump Republican opponents regard former President Donald Trump as too bumptious, undignified, and “unhinged” to be president, they have resorted to the greatest electoral indignities and illegal outrages in American history to attempt to deny him re-election.
The repurposing of the Justice Department as a partisan operation, from James Comey’s illegal promotion of the fraud of Trump collaborating with the Russian government to rig the 2016 election, through to the spurious indictments launched against Trump to sandbag his third candidacy for president as too repugnant to be tolerable in the White House, have backfired.
These initiatives have been more profoundly dishonest and reprehensible than any charge that could be leveled against Trump.
A known quantity --->READ MORE HEREHarris will continue the Obama-Biden foreign policy neglect as our enemies grow in power
The single most important piece in the geopolitical chessboard is the person of the president of the United States. He — or, as may soon come to pass, she — provides the focal point around which the players of all other nations align themselves.
A strong and experienced president like Dwight Eisenhower inspires confidence in our allies and caution in our opponents. A weak or incompetent president is an invitation to chaos and worse.
That John F. Kennedy tolerated Nikita Khrushchev’s tongue-lashing during their Vienna summit in 1961 was no doubt an element in the decision process that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
In the same way, Joe Biden’s bungled flight from Afghanistan encouraged hostile powers, like Russia and Iran, to launch military adventures.
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the policies and character of the president are the keys to war and peace in the world today.
How remarkable is it, then, that Kamala Harris was awarded the Democratic Party nomination, and may become the next president of the United States, while remaining a virtual blank slate on foreign affairs? In her two years as senator and four as vice president, Harris has managed to say nothing meaningful on the subject — a curious reticence, given that American politicians love to strut and lecture on the global stage.
Eager conformism
It isn’t a question of inexperience. Barack Obama had less experience when he first ran for president, but his entire candidacy hinged on opposition to the Iraq War.
Donald Trump had literally zero foreign policy experience, but he loudly advocated confronting China and making our allies pay their way. Obama and Trump were both candidates of revolt, and part of the change they wished to bring about was a reorientation in this country’s relations with the world.
Harris is in a tight race for the presidency. She has no wish to alienate voters, and she, or at least her handlers, must be aware that her propensity to toss random words into the air amounts almost to a speech impediment.
Here she is, for example, trying to explain her administration’s influence over Israel: “The work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by, or a result of, many things including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.”
When the English language is your enemy, it may be the better part of valor to say little or nothing.
But another factor also comes into play. Harris is the exact opposite of a candidate of revolt — she represents the golden progressive establishment that today controls most American institutions.
In this regard, her strange vacuity is an ideal condition: Policies favored by the establishment will simply be stuffed into that void. I suspect most foreign governments look on her as the latest iteration of the Obama and Biden worldview. Because of her office and party, no less than her eager conformism, she’s the candidate who needs no introduction.
To get a sense of what Harris’ foreign policy might look like, I’m trying to say, we first need to understand the journey traveled by her Democratic predecessors.
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