Tim Scott Rebuttal to Biden Speech

It is admittedly a little early to be placing bets on the 2024 presidential election, but the astonishing and almost unprecedented success of South Carolina Republican senator Tim Scott’s response to President Biden’s address to Congress has catapulted him forward among the ranks of Republican contenders, should President Trump decide not to enter the race. As the Democrats bill and coo and preen themselves, egged on by practically the entire national political media, which conducted the party’s presidential campaign in the absence and incomprehensibility of their putative candidates for national office, their position is very vulnerable. They are flying in the face of polls that report that an overwhelming majority of Americans want a compassionate but efficiently administered process of entry into the country and no significant numbers of illegal entries, and of polls that oppose violent demonstrations whatever their objective, oppose reduced funding for police, and favor photo identification for federal-election voters.

Only President Biden’s amiable and absent-minded manner and the continuing but dwindling efforts to maintain Trump-hate and COVID panic, the only non-socialist arguments the Democrats have had for the last five years, have propped Biden up above 50 percent approval through his post-electoral honeymoon. The Democrats are now a ramshackle coalition. It extends from radical African Americans, including the militant Black Lives Matter factions that torched a substantial part of America in “peaceful demonstrations” last summer and, through Hawke Newsome and other spokespeople, have promised to “burn America down” if they don’t achieve all of their radical objectives, to what is left of the traditional Democratic voting blocs among ethnic groups, the working class, academics, and the media. The retention of such an unworkable coalition always depends either on charismatic leadership of the FDR, JFK, or even Bill Clinton variety, or upon a broad agreement of goals among the different elements, as was generally the case under President Truman, LBJ (until the Vietnam derailment), and Obama.

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Conrad Black

Conrad Black is the author of Donald J. Trump, A President Like No Other.

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It is admittedly a little early to be placing bets on the 2024 presidential election, but the astonishing and almost unprecedented success of South Carolina Republican senator Tim Scott’s response to President Biden’s address to Congress has catapulted him forward among the ranks of Republican contenders, should President Trump decide not to enter the race. As the Democrats bill and coo and preen themselves, egged on by practically the entire national political media, which conducted the party’s presidential campaign in the absence and incomprehensibility of their putative candidates for national office, their position is very vulnerable. They are flying in the face of polls that report that an overwhelming majority of Americans want a compassionate but efficiently administered process of entry into the country and no significant numbers of illegal entries, and of polls that oppose violent demonstrations whatever their objective, oppose reduced funding for police, and favor photo identification for federal-election voters.

Only President Biden’s amiable and absent-minded manner and the continuing but dwindling efforts to maintain Trump-hate and COVID panic, the only non-socialist arguments the Democrats have had for the last five years, have propped Biden up above 50 percent approval through his post-electoral honeymoon. The Democrats are now a ramshackle coalition. It extends from radical African Americans, including the militant Black Lives Matter factions that torched a substantial part of America in “peaceful demonstrations” last summer and, through Hawke Newsome and other spokespeople, have promised to “burn America down” if they don’t achieve all of their radical objectives, to what is left of the traditional Democratic voting blocs among ethnic groups, the working class, academics, and the media. The retention of such an unworkable coalition always depends either on charismatic leadership of the FDR, JFK, or even Bill Clinton variety, or upon a broad agreement of goals among the different elements, as was generally the case under President Truman, LBJ (until the Vietnam derailment), and Obama.