https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/12/biden-should-beware-of-nemesis/
" Biden will be our next president. But he will face Nemesis
in a way that few other presidents have ever encountered the cruel
Greek god.
Biden’s hubris and that of the media/Democratic Party fusion
almost guarantee such divine retribution.
Once the last of the other Democratic-primary candidates dropped out
and Biden was nominated, all prior negative media stories about
his
apparent cognitive decline and his family’s financial entanglements
disappeared. From April 2020 on, a virtual news blackout surrounded
Biden. His rare interviews were scripted. Biden
communiqués were
teleprompted. Press conferences were either nonexistent or revolved
around his favorite milkshake or his socks.
Mentions of Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China and Ukraine
were taboo. It was sinful to reference reports of a Hunter Biden
email
allegedly detailing a 10 percent distribution of such revenue to the
“Big Guy” — identified as Joe Biden by Hunter Biden’s business partner.
Unlike Donald Trump, Joe Biden never really campaigned. After the
primaries, he outsourced his fall 2020 campaign to subordinates and pet
journalists to attack Trump.
So is Biden the centrist old Joe from Scranton, or the recently
reinvented hard-left running mate of Kamala Harris? Both or
neither?
Will he keep the booming pre-COVID-19 Trump economy to claim as his own?
Or will he go full socialist to apply a Bernie Sanders–style makeover
to it?
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A President Biden cannot avoid the press forever. He will soon face
unscripted meetings with foreign leaders. He will have to meet
dozens of
movers and shakers each week. Is he or the nation prepared for the
consequences of his return to normality after nearly a year of media
fawning and forced isolation?
To win, the Democrats knowingly drafted the 77-year-old Biden (who
has since turned 78) to put a familiar veneer on radical agendas that
had frightened primary voters. At times, Democrats seemed
fated to be
directly tied to the statue toppling, protesting, rioting, and violence
that plagued American cities for much of the summer.
Given the Democrats’ Faustian bargain with their leftmost faction,
destructive rumors about Biden’s faculties or his family’s financial
escapades will more likely come from his own party’s left wing,
eager
for a Harris presidency, rather than from the Republican opposition.
Biden will enter office with an ethical cloud hanging over his head —
one that could have been vetted and adjudicated rather than blacked out
for most of 2020. His son, brother, and perhaps family
associates may
talk if faced with FBI and IRS probes, if not a special-counsel
investigation.
But that precedent ended with the ill-conceived Robert Mueller
investigation. By spring, Biden could have done to him what was done to
Trump — and what Biden himself so frequently cheered on.
Nor do we impeach presidents often, especially knowing that the
Senate will acquit them when there is no alleged crime as outlined in
the Constitution. That bar is also gone. Should the Republicans hold the
Senate and take the House in 2022, they could do what the Democrats did
in 2020. But if they were to impeach Biden as a possible beneficiary of
his family’s foreign influence-peddling, a Republican-controlled Senate
might not so easily acquit him.
Biden variously called Trump supporters “ugly folk” and “chumps.” He
compared the president to Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi
propagandist. Biden smeared Trump by referring to him as the nation’s
first racist president.
Half the nation will take some time to forget all that. The repair of
warped protocols will take longer, given that the Left forgot the
ancient Thucydidean warning to us not to destroy the very institutions
whose protections we may one day need.
Biden should hope that a rogue FBI does not conduct freelance
investigations of him the way it did of Trump. Let Biden pray there is
not a partisan medical community to diagnose him as impaired and suited
for 25th Amendment removal, as was the case with Trump.
Biden should hope that if Republicans hold the Senate in January,
they do not mimic the Democratic habit of voting against nearly every
Trump nominee. If they were to do that as a majority party in both
chambers of Congress, Biden would have trouble confirming even a single
judge.
So let us celebrate Biden’s call to unity.
But Biden should hope that the opposition will not do to him and his party what the Democrats did so bitterly to Trump.
