"Nothing is Working. Or Is It?"

In a piece on the disaster we call the Biden administration, Will Alexander wonders it it's really the disaster it seems.

For instance, in the Del Rio bridge disaster with 12,000 Haitians under the border bridge, the result was that the Biden administration shipped nearly all of them into the US. So, from the left's point of view, it's working. Another 12,000 potential Democrat voters migrated into the US.

And the GOP governors sent a message to the president asking for a "open and constructive dialogue regarding border enforcement". Like that's going to work. As Alexander writes:

We’re now dealing with anti-American, Trump-hating, political psychopaths who want to use race, COVID, climate change, and chaos to outlaw political differences using arbitrary policies that look to fundamentally destroy America as we know it.

OK. So which is it? A total disaster of the incompetents? Or a cunning plot by "political psychopaths"?

I'd say both. 

First, the big government welfare state doesn't work. It Makes Things Worse. There's a good piece by Orthodox rabbi Dov Fischer about how the Democrats have wrecked blacks. All in the name of helping them. 

Second, when your glorious plan of paradise isn't working out, and instead is littered with disaster, you don't give up. Not the French Jacobins, not the Russkie Bolsheviks, not the Maoist cultural revolutionaries. That's what the whole notion of a Reign of Terror and Virtue is about. It cannot be that our glorious vision was a fantasy! The problems must be the work of "saboteurs and wreckers." We must double down and fight through to the final victory

That is a way to understand the US history of the last 50 years. It cannot be that the Great Society programs were a disaster visited on the poor. It cannot be that Keynesian economics caused the inflation of the 1970s. It cannot be that "supply-side" economics caused the revival of the 1980s. It cannot be that ordinary Americans revolted against HillaryCare. It cannot be that the Tea Party was an organic revolt against Obama's big government orgy. It cannot be that Trump represents an ordinary middle-class revolt against the conceits and the failures of educated-class big government. No: there is "systemic racism" every way you look.

What is needed is to double-down on more government, with pitiless ideological domination and elimination of "hate" speech. That should do it!

The lesson, of course, is that all Reigns of Terror and Great Purges eventually end, and normal life resumes, sort of. But the butcher's bill!

By the way, both Putin and Xi have been selling the glories of Russian civilization and Chinese civilization lately. What's that all about? Are they, like Trump, extolling the virtues of the Russian nation and the Chinese nation? Any mean tweets from the Kremlin or the Gate of Heavenly Peace lately?

Or are they just realists, understanding that any people wants a history, a narrative that extols its past, and experiences itself as the culmination of its story, its narrative of How We Got Here. You know, like when Trump did a speech right in front of the US presidents engraved into the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Actually, I think the decisive moment will occur when women give up on the Democratic message. See, the whole point of the welfare state is that it "protects" us. And "women expect to be protected."

But what happens when things fall apart and women discover that the folk that promised to protect them have, in fact, abandoned them to the wolves?

The answer, spelled out in A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous, is that they find new protectors. So the German women in May 1945 sought out Soviet officers to be their protectors. And many other German women became GI war brides. Of course they did.

When the women of America make this switch, there won't be trumpets and banners and glorious speeches. Things will suddenly change and nobody will really know why.

A trial run on this is the whole COVID vaccine thing. Right now American women all think that vaccination protects them and their loved ones. However, some women -- nurses -- close to the firing line seem to be telling us that vaccination is not what it is cracked up to be. I predict that some time in the next 12 months, American women will decide that the whole COVID response has not protected them. And so they will seek out new protectors.

Let's put it this way. President Trump campaigned in a manner that really appealed to men. Starting with his mental pugilistic antics at the 2016 Republican debates, he showed that he would "fight for you." But women hated his "mean tweets." They want to be told how our national leaders will protect us. There's a reason why Democrats tend to use memes like "our community" and "our democracy" that appeals to the woman's need for protection. But a lot of Americans hate their use of the racist-sexist-pejoratives. Did you know that "pejorative" comes from the Latin pejorare meaning "making things worse?"

One fine day, a Republican presidential candidate will discover how to appeal to the woman's need for protection.

Then, look out, Wokies.