Scene in a strategic meeting to select the Democratic candidate for the 2024 Presidential election:
Nancy: ‘Okay guys, let’s get down to tin tacks. We’re here to agree on a candidate who will be the next US President.’
Bill: ‘Without the DNC?’ (Ed – Democratic National Committee).
Nancy: ‘Bill, we have two ex-Presidents and myself – third in line to President – who are far more capable than all of the DNC.’
Bill: ‘And your candidate?’
Nancy: ‘Kamala…’
Bill: (Almost choking) ‘What? Seriously…’
Barack: ‘Bill, let me lay it out. America elected me, a Black man, in 2008 – almost 16 years ago. You and I remember the scepticism. Since then, Black women have found their voice through the #MeToo and the DEI movements. The Democrats and Kamala have championed these movements. I believe that support for the first Black female President will hit the ballot box like a tsunami, leaving Trump looking like a shoe-shine boy in Grand Central!’
Bill: ‘Have you forgotten her disastrous performance during the primaries in 2020? And you think that Americans will vote for her when she hasn’t articulated a single policy! When asked about policies, she starts laughing and regales with the joys of living and being American.’
Nancy: ‘Bill, Americans remember that Kamala has successfully promoted the #MeToo and DEI movements; and corporations have fallen over themselves to get on board. We’ve got the powerful left-wing trifecta in our corner: the media, the universities and the judiciary. We’ve buried Trump in lawsuits – fake or otherwise – and reminded voters that the election is about the Capitol riots of January 6. Voters know that Kamala reached the second highest office in the land and believe she’s earned the right to the highest. Polls have the Republicans facing a wipe-out.’
Bill: ‘On the last point, Rasmussen has Trump leading. What if the DNC objects…’
Nancy: ‘They won’t if Joe endorses her; it will also avoid primaries.’
Barack: ‘Good luck getting him to do that; I couldn’t get him to resign.’
Nancy: ‘You ignored Jill – I’ll deal with her.’
Bill: ‘On a good day, Jill could have the party for breakfast.’
And so it came to pass, that President Biden nominated Kamala Harris as the Democratic Presidential candidate. The DNC caved. Jill Biden saw red, and Kamala romped her party to a massive defeat without flipping a single county. Trump won the trifecta: the House, the Senate, and the popular vote.
Kamala’s indigestion at her loss, like Hilary Clinton’s in 2016, prevented her from conceding defeat to her supporters on the night.
Two impoverished people of colour, Chris Gardner (The Pursuit of Happyness) and Michael Oher (The Blind Side), fought their way out of poverty with the help of generous benefactors. But get this: neither Chris nor Michael were kicked to the gutter repeatedly, as they rose to success. When Donald Trump promised to run again in 2024 after losing the 2020 election, he put the fear of God into the Democrats. Despite their attempts to destroy him with fake allegations and shocking abuses of power on an unprecedented scale, he proved to be a one-man juggernaut whose sheer force of personality moved the world for a moment in time, as he reclaimed the White House. This was no ordinary achievement. Chris and Michael are inspirational, but Trump’s success transcends theirs’ by orders of magnitude – and will be ranked among the most inspirational.
Trump’s journeys to the Presidency are best captured by some of lyrics in Frank Sinatra’s My Way:
Yes, there were times, I’m sure you knew; When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out
I faced it all, and I stood tall, And did it my way.
For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught
To say the things he truly feels; And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows, And did it my way.
And Jill Biden had the Democratic party for breakfast when she turned out to vote in a blazing red (Republican) outfit.
Satire. Obviously.
