Ten months into the Biden Era, the American electorate has spoken up, and it sounds a lot like a rowdy, fired-up crowd at a college football game:
“Let’s Go Brandon!!!”
The catchphrase of the year — a sanitized way of saying “F–k Joe Biden” that amounts to a dual-warhead cruise missile raining down equal contempt on both our blundering president and the media who shamelessly cover for him — is a three-word encapsulation of everything the voters had to say to Democrats Tuesday, from Puget Sound to Long Island Sound. The word “reeling” appeared in so many press accounts in descriptions of Democrats Wednesday morning that the political news looked like an issue of Field & Stream.
In Virginia, after Joe Biden won the state last November by 10 points, the Republican Party appeared to have as much life in it as your local Sears. Tuesday, Republicans flipped the statewide offices and the House of Delegates from blue to red. Virginia voters were flipping the bird to Terry McAuliffe and his buddy Joe Biden.
In Seattle, where Donald Trump got 8 percent of the vote in 2020, a Republican won as city attorney, the first of his party to win a city office in 30 years.
In New Jersey, incumbent Democrat Phil Murphy was rated a 1/20 favorite by one bookmaker, and polls suggested he’d win by double digits.
Yet if he wins, it’ll be only by a fraction of a point — in a state Biden won by 16. In Minneapolis, a proposal to defund the police flamed out.
Even Democrats who won, such as Eric Adams in New York City, did so by speaking fluent Republican. Adams says he’s anti-crime, pro-business and a friend to the wealthy. If only all Democrats were that sane.
All politics is local? Formerly true, but now the news channels obsessively pull our focus to Washington 24/7. Each party pretty much sticks to the same basic reference points in every race from city councilman on up: Democrats indicate their ardent support for lunacy, and Republicans say, “This isn’t France.”
Bidenians across the country have been pushing the following nutsy policies: a spending spree that is fueling inflation and will lead to more taxation; going soft on criminals (Biden even buried a call for an end to cash bail in his ridiculous “gender equity” scheme last month); torturing the language by feeding it through the political-correctness grinder; boring everybody but woke college students with incessant talk about “white privilege” and “white supremacy,” and, most egregious of all, telling parents that their children belong to the government and will be taught whatever Democrats in that government dictate.
And what’s with the neverending COVID crisis that Biden promised to crush with his awesome half-century of Washington managerial competence? Next month the Biden era’s COVID death toll will surpass the horrible figure compiled during the Trump Administration.
The voters gave all of that an F, as in “Eff Joe Biden.” On social media, people are saying “FJB” for short. Or “Let’s go Brandon.” On Wednesday, one of Biden’s ablest opponents, and a potential future presidential candidate, Gov. Ron DeSantis, was openly mocking the “Brandon Administration.” Florida Man 1, Swamp Man 0.
To put it in Bidenish: Look, here’s the deal. Nobody gave the Democrats permission to do anything except get a handle on the pandemic and give us all a break from crazy tweets. And the pandemic is still killing more than a thousand people a day while Biden turns his attention to bringing up infected illegal immigrants from the southern border and sprinkling them around the country in the dead of night, killing energy projects to drive up gas prices while begging OPEC to bail us out, promoting the absurd idea that whiteness equals guilt and proposing ginormous new federal programs whose cost would have made FDR say, “Put down the bong, fella, there’s only so much money to spend.”
To top it all off, Biden wants to write a check for $450,000 to every illegal immigrant affected by the Trump administration’s short-lived family-separation policy.
Kinda looks like Joe Biden and pals hate ordinary Americans. This week the country is saying, “Right back at ya, gramps.”