From Democracy To Warfare

Thursday, May 28, 2026

So, Jill Biden thought hubby Joe, then POTUS, was stroking out when he debated current POTUS Trump in 2024.  Raises a thousand question does it not?  Like, why didn’t she stop the proceeding and have a doctor check him out?  Why was he allowed to continue in office?…

The New York Post Editorial Board reacted best I think:

The most shocking thing about Jill Biden divulging that she thought her husband, the president of the United States, was having a stroke during his disastrous debate against Donald Trump, is that she so casually says this during a television interview two years later.

She’s admitting to a crime against the American people — and expecting sympathy for it.

I find it fascinating that this comes on the heels of what I wrote Tuesday – that the new defining characteristic of being a liberal was never admitting, acknowledging or otherwise dealing with a mistake you make.  You just ignore it and move on, expecting the world to support you.  In that Tuesday post I wrote of the ramifications of such a stance and that one of them was the end of any sort of self-corrective mechanism and therefore it would ultimately spell the end of the Democratic Party.

But then Tuesday night, John Cornyn got slobbernockered, and now I have to wonder if the Dems are not going to take the Republicans down with them.  At PJ Media, in reaction to that Texas result Scott Pinkster wrote this:

That’s because the Democratic Party has changed. Until the Obama years, it was a coalition party: liberals, unions, Catholics, environmentalists, blue-collar workers, minorities, and women. Post-Obama, it became a vehicle for left-wing radicalism — and this alone became its North Star.

Not compromise. Not meeting in the middle. Its stated goal was “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

Which made conservative compromise an impossibility.

The Republican Party and the Democratic Party have evolved to address each other’s deficiencies. It was probably inevitable: The political marketplace demanded it, because they’re competing products.

So, when one party changes, so must the other…

Quite clearly that is what has happened and is happening.  Unfortunately, if that is indeed the path we take it will spell the end of democracy – a governmental system built on reason and compromise.  There is no democracy if there is no compromise.

Ken Paxton, the man that beat John Cornyn, is, on the issues, simply conservative, and the party should rally around him.  Cornyn’s loss represents a loss of seniority in the Senate and that’s a big deal.  It also makes a senatorial race in Texas competitive where with Cornyn in the slot it would not be.  But if Paxton wins, and he should – narrowly – and we retain control of the Senate things won’t be too bad.  More than anything else this comes down to a matter of style.  Cornyn tried to get things done, Paxton is looking for a fight.  It would seem the country is in the mood for a fight, not a negotiated peace.

I would suggest that the president’s conduct in Iran is quite instructive here.  He seems to desperately want a negotiated peace, but is unwilling to compromise on bottom line things to get it.  He will fight if he has to, but only as last resort.  He knows the cost of “finishing the war.”  Said war will not merely be the toppling of a corrupt and evil regime.  It will be the death of thousands upon thousands of innocents – either as collateral damage or at the hands of the brutal regime – not to mention our own losses in pursuing that victory.

We stand at the same place politically.  Like the Iranian regime, Democrats no longer negotiate in good faith.  Leaving us, seemingly, with little choice but to go to war.  And yet, the cost of such war is tremendous – it will cost us democracy itself.  In both situations, the tension seems unbearable – the need for resolve overwhelming.  In both situations rushing to resolution destroys as much or more than it saves.

I never thought I would say this, but I think we need to learn a lesson in patience from Donald J. Trump.  The more extreme Democrats get, the more self-destructive they get.  The more extreme Democrats get, the more the American people will leave them stranded and with no choice but to settle, even if it takes a while for them to realize their lack of options.

If you combine wisdom and temperance – you are going to arrive at patience.  It truly is a virtue, even if it is not on the list.