Why I Won’t Be Watching the Clown Show That Will Be Trump’s Inauguration

On Wednesday, Joe Biden gave a farewell address to the nation. If you missed it, you’re not alone. Biden is entering the history books at an alarming rate, his presidency already reduced to a footnote among pro-Trump chapters and his personality faded into irrelevance.

As always, Biden’s message was spot on. Through Eisenhower and his warnings about the rise of an unaccountable “military-industrial” complex, the outgoing president warned that America today is increasingly under the influence of an oligarchy created by “forces.” .high-tech industrial complex” Biden said these oligarchs are intentionally using the high-tech infrastructure they control to corrupt public discourse and confuse the public about what is true and what is false. He pointed out that they are spreading misinformation and all this is to gain more power and power. More wealth.

Elon Musk’s personal wealth is now close to $5 trillion. Given his rate of growth, he is on track to become the world’s first trillionaire in the not-too-distant future, with his business empire ranging from futuristic cars to satellites essential to civil and military infrastructure around the world. , controls everything. That makes him a superpower in his own right. Mark Zuckerberg is not far behind him.

Cumulatively, Trump administration and billionaire aides They are by far the wealthiest leadership group in the country’s history, combining economic power and political influence in typical oligarchic fashion. These men and women, some in government and others simply cheerleading in the boxes where they sit to enjoy the show, will use their political power to influence more people in the coming years. They will gain a lot of economic power and then use it again. This is to strengthen their control over the political process.

As I said earlier, Biden’s message was spot on. After all, it’s hard not to cringe when you look at Mr. Musk’s enormous and completely destructive current public role, his trolling of leaders around the world, his support for neo-Nazi politics. Don’t look at Zuckerberg’s enthusiastic embrace of President Trump’s “If I say it, it’s true” philosophy, and his beliefs. hosting an inauguration party As much as we praise Trump, we shouldn’t be surprised that the tech giant has been reincarnated as the zealous midwife of fascism. But Biden’s messages, delivered in the hard-to-hear, monotonous tones that have come to define his image, no longer carry any weight. The world has been ignoring this man for a long time.

And here I am really angry. When Joe Biden took office as president after the 2020 election, he had one job: create politics that could neutralize the MAGA movement and all the extremism spewing from the mouths of its leaders. It was about building it up. He had one job. It was about doing everything in our power to ensure that Donald J. Trump could never again come within a mile of power and use the power of the presidency to launch an all-out assault on American democracy. And Biden ruined it. Not in small increments, but in eruptions of incompetence. He failed time and time again to sell his message, and when it became clear that the public did not support what he was selling, he gave up a solid chance of winning against another Democrat. failed to step down in a timely manner to give. Trump is revived.

This represents one of the most astonishing acts of political malfeasance in the history of democracies. And that’s something I really hope the history books will tell us is that Mr. Biden deeply values ​​his “legacy” and the responsibility of his few trusted confidants.

A hundred years from now, no one will remember the Inflation Control Act, but they will surely remember Biden’s dance of incompetence in the late Weimar period, when dark forces gathered to storm the bastions of American power. Probably. Because on January 20th, Trump will have nearly unlimited power thanks to the Supreme Court, but at the same time a tech guard of social media moguls will amplify Trump’s every word. This is because they attack anyone who dares to stand up for themselves. method.

So while Biden was perfectly right to warn about an impending oligarchy, he was wrong not to apologize for getting the country into its current mess. Where was the humility to admit the absolutely unfathomable political failures of the past few years?

The Democratic Party, which is neither standing on the side of decency nor building a firewall against extremism, is a party willing to sit out an inauguration that crowns a would-be tyrant or a convicted felon. Where are the executives? A sexual abuser as president, free and above the law? as far as i know, michelle obama She had the courage to skip the ceremony in which outlaws take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. Husband Barack Obama was last seen working on an animated film. Trump and small talk I plan to attend Jimmy Carter’s funeral. The same could be said of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. This is not to mention the same leaders who have now committed to attending his ceremony and whose supporters were likely protesting, threatening jail or worse. For someone who has repeatedly spread blatant lies and falsehoods, this is an extraordinary act of justification. If we had lost the November election, there would have been riots.