by Scott McKay
It all started on Thursday. The choir seemed to grow in such a tender way:
Chances for Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg being Democratic PartyThe 2024 U.S. vice presidential candidate has seen his odds improve with a leading bookmaker in the past 24 hours, following media reports that the U.S. vice president’s campaign team Kamala Harrispresumptive Democratic presidential candidate is considering his candidacy for the position.
On Wednesday, William Hill was offering odds of 14/1 (6.7 percent) that Buttigieg would run. Democratsvice presidential candidate, but as of 5 a.m. Eastern on Thursday, the odds had risen to 4/1 (20 percent).
Everywhere you looked on the X show, some Democratic pundit was touting Mayor Pete as a “breakthrough” or “unbeatable” vice presidential candidate opposite Kamala Harris.
That replaced similar speculation earlier in the week about Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro making the most sense to be Harris’ running mate. But suddenly, Shapiro’s stock seemed to be taking a nosedive.
Why?
Josh Shapiro is not today’s Democratic Party:
Shapiro has been cast as a “moderate” Democrat, which means he is your average elitist leftist with the odd trait of hating the idea of free school choice.
That doesn’t mean he’s an ally of the Pennsylvanians who want school choice—he just doesn’t hate them the way Pol Pot hated posh classrooms. For that reason, he’s seen as a bit of an odd bird.
But he is also a Jew and that was in fact reported by CNN’s John King as something negative about today’s Democratic Party. King was criticized for saying this, but considering he married a Jewish associate, Dana Bash, several years ago and was reportedly considering converting to Judaism, it’s not like it was some blatantly anti-Semitic statement. King got it from somewhere — almost certainly from a Democratic Party source.
Because anti-Semitism is a growing sacrament in the party. It was evident when 100 members of the House of Representatives and two dozen senators failed to show up for Bibi Netanyahu’s congressional address on Wednesday, and it was also evident when several thousand of their constituents decided to riot in the streets of Washington, including beating up police officers, desecrating American flags, flying Palestinian flags at Union Station, and generally trashing the place.
Of course, general vandalism isn’t a particularly anti-Semitic activity. It’s just a Democrat thing.
After the riots, Harris released what could be considered a typical, strongly worded letter, admonishing these crazy kids for their antics without promising or demanding any specific action against the rioters or the organizers who bused them in.
Because of course not. She has proven that she is at peace with the riots, and she is also at peace with Hamas, er, the Palestinians.
And when it all ended on Thursday, the vice president was being called Buttigieg, not Shapiro.
So was Harris hostile to the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania, or was Shapiro hostile to Harris?
Who can say?
It’s worth noting that if you’re Josh Shapiro and you’re a little uneasy about your name being mentioned so soon after taking over as governor in Harrisburg, you should consider that the White House will be open to all come 2028, and a successful, close primary race could make him the favorite.
But riding in the passenger seat with a drunk Harris behind the wheel could end your career.
Does he want to be Sarah Palin, Paul Ryan, Geraldine Ferraro, Lloyd Bentsen, Dan Quayle, Jack Kemp or Tim Kaine, none of whom were very relevant after playing second fiddle to a losing ticket? Maybe not, especially when it is clear that a vast portion of the current Democratic base looks at him the way Hutus looked at Tutsis.
…but Pete Buttigieg is.
And then there’s Pete Buttigieg – I call him affectionately Older gay Petebecause you just can’t be more disgustingly gay than Pete Buttigieg in his constant flaunting of his sexual orientation in front of the public (which, frankly, disgusts pretty much every gay person I know) — is the most astute choice Harris could have made.
He would have gotten the nomination for the same reason Richard, er, Rachel Levine got the number two job at DHHS, or why Sam Brinton, the crazy transvestite who was notorious for stealing women’s suitcases on airport conveyor belts, was named head of the nation’s nuclear arsenal.
Namely, outrage.
You’re showing the American people someone who belongs to one of your oppressed identity groups and flaunting that affiliation in a rude way, like when Buttigieg spent a good portion of his abbreviated 2020 presidential campaign lecturing Christians that he’s holier than they are, despite the conflicts his lifestyle may have with the word of Scripture, or when Buttigieg took two months off work on “paternity leave” after adopting two youthful children with his husband in the midst of a supply chain crisis.
People dislike Buttigieg not because he is gay, but because he is annoying, incompetent, and absolutely radical.
But you have no right to dislike him. If you do, you’ll be homophobic.
Just like disliking Harris, who is also annoying, incompetent, and completely radical, makes you a racist and misogynist.
DEI Factor
The controversy this week over whether conservatives have the right to criticize Harris after she was hired as part of a DEI effort is a good example of this vigorous.
As I wrote on Wednesday on RVIVR:
It has been suggested that referring to DEI in the context of Harris is “blatantly racist and sexist.”
But why is this so?
None of the Republicans present at the meeting offered Harris a DEI job.
It was Joe Biden’s doing.
Remember, in June 2020, when Biden was choosing his vice presidential candidate, he explicitly constrained his choices to black women. The three names that were rejected as finalists were Susan Rice, an Obama subordinate who was ultimately appointed to the DEI position in the Biden administration, Karen Bass, who at the time was a congresswoman from Los Angeles and is now the mayor of Los Angeles, and Harris.
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DEI is the most fundamental manifestation of the anti-American agenda being pushed on us by the elite left in this country, and Harris is a representative of both. She is the political equivalent of Claudine Gay, a plagiarist with a very constrained academic record who ended up as president of Harvard solely on DEI, and Harvard got what she paid for her efforts when Gay welcomed Hamas onto the campus and swindled tens of millions of dollars from donors. The reputation of the university has been seriously damaged by her mismanagement.
And now we see what DEI has almost cost us as a country in the person of Kimberly Cheatle, the recently resigned director of the Secret Service, whose incompetence or treason nearly got Donald Trump killed, and whose security in Butler, Pennsylvania, was so needy it raised suspicions.
America absolutely should be given the chance to accept or reject DEI, and this presidential campaign is a good opportunity to make that choice.
Apparently I am in the minority, as we are admonished to “talk about her achievements, not her race.”
But the bottom line is that DEI is not about race. It’s about that disgusting, direct assault on meritocracy that the elite left is foisting on the American people, using the Harrises and Buttigiegs as their vanguard. Find the radical losers who rank higher than straight white men on the intersex totem pole, and then shield them with the armor of “racism!” “sexism!” “homophobia!” when you try to verify, and two things will happen: the more polite verifyers will run away, and the DEI beneficiaries will be very grateful for the free ride and will reward you with endless loyalty.
If not exceptional diligence, work ethic, or judgment.
That you end up with a Gay or Cheatle level of achievement is an unfortunate, but bearable, byproduct. Our elites stopped caring that the institutions they control were well run around the time their infiltration blossomed into power in the high seat.
They don’t mind ruling over the ruins.
And Mayor Pete, who is gay, is proof of that, as your recent air travel experience can attest.
On a side note, isn’t it strange that DEI is something good and worthy of attention, and yet it is now considered an “insult” and “insult” to associate someone with DEI? Where is your pride, people?
This is what they have, so this is what you’ll get
You remember that ancient legal saying, right? “If the facts are on your side, bang the facts. If the law is on your side, bang the law. If neither is on your side, bang the table.” Well, DEI is banging the table. And that’s all Harris has to do, because the facts are not good for her as the No. 2 in a Biden administration that has done such a terrible job. And the law is not good for her, considering that she has spent the last three years running the border and turning it into a highway for human trafficking and fentanyl poisoning. Not to mention that virtually every public statement she has made since becoming a national figure has branded her as an unabashed enemy of the Constitution.
But she will be pounding the table, calling you a racist, sexist, and homophobe if you don’t believe the campaign slogans she and gay Mayor Pete have to offer.
Will it work? It’s really unlikely, no. But there’s also a certain misanthropic joy in it. Namely, that if the American voter rejects such purely woke identity politics, it will be proof that we are those evil, backward bigots whose “hatred” and “fear” of our inevitable future make us guilty of — and worthy of — the riots, civil unrest, and lawlessness that the Antifa/BLM left will surely unleash in a second Trump term.
I’m not saying Harris-Buttigieg is inevitable. I’m saying it’s a pretty good shot. And if it happens, the election will inevitably be about DEI—whether you like it or not.
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Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator and publisher A Ride in a Wagonwhich offers news and commentary about Louisiana and national politics, RVIVR.com, national political news and opinion aggregator site. Scott is also an author A Manifesto of Regeneration: How Patriots Can Win the Next American Era, and, recently, Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It’s All Obama’s Faultavailable from November 21. He is also a fiction writer – check out his four novels in the Tales of Ardenia series Animosity, Perdition, Revenge AND Trouble on Amazon.
Photo “Pete Buttigieg” by Gage Skidmore.CC BY-SA 2.0.
