What’s truly jarring about Joe Kennedy III’s hollow response to President Trump’s State of the Union address is that progressives are once again playing the pretty boy card, and the implications of that are deeply troubling.
So it wasn’t saliva on Joe’s lower lip, although he probably salivated at the thought of breaking onto the national stage with so few—and relevant—recommendations.
And it wasn’t just that he served us a vegetarian plate adorned with the withered garnish of women’s abortion rights, black victim status, illegal immigrant rights, and who knows what else.
It wasn’t even that Kennedy was speaking to a select few loudmouths while POTUS was reaching out to progressives, most of whom were half-witted and surly, pretending to be pro-democracy while they played video games at our expense.
And I certainly didn’t mind not listening to Chuck Schumer sing or Nancy Pelosi’s raspy idiocy. So thanks for that, Joe.
Four times since World War II, when progressives have had no say in politics, they have produced a handsome boy to fool everyone who votes—or buys cereal, cars, or makeup—on good looks, youth, and branding. Progressives know that these traits matter to enough voters to make a difference, and they have the history to prove it.
As a junior in high school in 1960, I vividly remember girls—and their mothers—swooning over the candidacy of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the Massachusetts senator whose heroism in World War II had won him votes from veterans but had done nothing but gain him looks and age. Did I mention his father, the original Joe Kennedy, and his money? This Camelot romance took place in a neighborhood where there was a Republican foundation under every house. Apparently, the romance was not narrow to my tiny Ohio town.
In an election not decided by the Russians but by—according to those who claim to know—a man who drove a van full of votes into Lake Michigan, King Joe’s son, Jack, became president, and with that good fortune we got the Berlin Wall just after Krushchev saw the weakness when they met face to face in 1961. Then we became the beneficiary of nuclear missiles in Cuba, circumstances that almost brought us to the very end of time. Mr. Kennedy’s last great gift to us was the escalation of our presence in Vietnam, and well, many of you know—or experienced—what happened next.
Interestingly, Lyndon Johnson was vetoed for another term by the anti-war media, in what may have been the first rebellion of the Fourth Estate against the progressive agenda. The fresh power fell to a media clique that realized it could take down the president. They made Watergate a monster, ridiculed Ford’s golf game, labeled Reagan senile, GHWB as a watch watcher, and made GWB look like a draft-dodging warmonger. Now they’re trying to pin the madness on DJT.
Against the popular war hero George H. W. Bush, progressives ran an anonymous governor of Arkansas in 1992. He was juvenile, pot-smoking, handsome, and had a partner who was steeped in feminism. By all accounts, Bill had never served anyone but himself, yet he won the presidency with the aid of the media, and what did we get? The first attack on the World Trade Center, the USS Cole, the rise of al-Qaeda, the crippling of the U.S. intelligence community, and one scandal after another—all of it emanating from White House aides who apparently could not obtain security clearance. So much for appearances.
As an added bonus, there are those who believe that the Deep State — entrenched bureaucrats with a political agenda — got its start in the 1990s. They already had allies in the nation’s schools, and once they connected with their favorite friends in the media, the Alt-State — a cabal of progressive militants in government, academia, and the media — began to take shape as we know it today.
The alt-state worked demanding to undermine patriotism and family values ​​during Bush’s second term, setting the stage for another candidate to emerge from obscurity to take over the political scene in 2008. Barack Obama offered his looks, his youth, and little else, but his skin color offered an opportunity to assuage black hopes and assuage white guilt.
And what did we get? A false start on national healthcare, Benghazi, and ISIS, to name just three. But a black president was not the only first. Obama’s leadership gave us the most corrupt, blatant attempt at election-rigging by bureaucrats. Worse than the abuses of J. Edgar Hoover and worse than Watergate, the Obama-Clinton followers sought to overthrow democratic government in the United States. They seemed certain that with a third term of progressive hegemony, the cooperation of the Alt-State would ensure that they would never have to gamble on the outcome of another national election.
In the movie, Good Shepherd, Robert DeNiro, who plays Bill Donovan, reminds one of his men, “You know how Hitler came to power? It was the officials… the officials who put him in power.”
In 2016, Obama officials conspired to put Hillary Clinton in power and almost succeeded. They are still working to remove the president elected by the people.
Will another handsome hunk lead the Progressives to success in 2020?
