While President Joe Biden’s staff polishes up his speech to the Democratic National Convention for Monday night, leading Democrats are now openly acknowledging that it was an actual coup that took him out of the running.
Maureen Dowd, writer and a leading voice for Democrats, admitted it in her column in the New York Times over the weekend:
“We head to Chicago on a wave of euphoria, exuberance, exultation, excitement and even, you might say, ecstasy,” she wrote. “It’s going to be a glorious coronation — except that everyone’s mad at one another.”
She goes on to reveal that the top Democrats are “bristling with resentments even as they are about to try to put on a united front at the United Center in the Windy City.”
Why? Because “A coterie of powerful Democrats maneuvered behind the scenes to push an incumbent president out of the race.”
Dowd, whose column appears behind the newspaper paywall, says it became obvious Biden was not going to be able to campaign, much less serve competently for another our years.
This is something that was obvious to conservatives for years, even before 2020.
“But at some point, when the polls cratered, Democratic mandarins decided to put the welfare of the party — and the country — ahead of the president’s ego, and stop catering to his self-regarding fantasy that he was the only one who could beat Donald Trump. Also, they all could know that Biden was slowing faster than he and his family and his inner circle were acknowledging,” Dowd wrote.
In one weekend, Biden went from looking “forward to getting back on the campaign trail” to having suffered the political coup at the hands of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries, who is the chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
“And when Kamala Harris deftly cemented her position as the nominee, the party erupted in a dizzying sense of possibility,” Dowd wrote, fawningly.
“How could Biden not be hurt that the Democratic convention went from four days of ‘sitting shiva,’ as James Carville put it, to a joyful romp with Kamala atop the ticket?” Dowd asked. “Democrat after Democrat who had been close to Biden before conspiring to push him out had to confess to cable anchors that they had not been able to talk to the president, who was sulking in his tent.”
Dowd then acknowledged that the Democrats were whitewashing the coup by effusively praising Biden.
James Clyburn told news shows that Biden’s record is one “that no president of the United States could ever match.”
Nancy Pelosi proposed on CBS that Biden’s face should be carved onto Mount Rushmore.
“You have Teddy Roosevelt up there,” Pelosi said. “And he’s wonderful. I don’t say take him down. But you could add Biden.”
On Monday night, Biden will attempt to bring unity to the party that just conducted a coup against him. As he has so many times before, he will read the lines on the teleprompter. And pause meaningfully. His speech will be slurred and garbled. He’ll take his hero’s applause, and he’ll depart the stage before he becomes too befuddled to continue the charade.
In the end, it may become obvious to even the most ardent Biden devotee that he was unable to continue, and that the political coup was the only way forward.
What’s amazing is that if Plan B wins, they’ll say she’s just as awesome as Joe was, even after most of us will have suffered another 4 years of failed policy. But hey, they’ll say they saved democracy by being the most undemocratic bunch ever.
It is becoming more obvious that Trump is also not mentally capable to be President
Oh “ Frank”…
Biden was/is “the emperor with no clothes” for years. Only time will tell if the powerful elite will get to select a President with no votes.
Democrats don’t care who wears the suit, as long as they have the perceived power. They just need a figure head to ram their agenda through.
The hype behind Kamala is manufactured. She doesn’t go from the most unpopular VP to being on top overnight without the lame stream media propaganda machine.
Yelling is the only way he can overcome his diminished speaking ability, so he will be loud, angry, and aggressive. Wouldn’t it be interesting if he goes after the party insiders who ousted him?
I’m guessing the coup was a bit of carrot and stick. If Pelosi is 1/4 as ruthless as I think she is, she put in safeguards to keep Grandpa Bloodstains quiet. Like, say anything and we’ll investigate your family.
They knew this was coming, and they rigged the primary. You really have to shut your brain off to vote D this year.
And over 40% will. Happily.
The real coup was making Harris-Walz the cemented in DNC nominees without any vetting by the rest of the DNC party and We the People. This coup was known to many months ago when potential presidential candidates should have been stepping forward to go through the campaign vetting process.
It is time for Americans to wake up and see that corrupt career politicians must be forced out of office for the good of this country. Wokeism, DEI, communism, socialism, indoctrination of youth, etc. etc. must end. There must be term limits for all House of Representatives and Senators, just like governors, president, etc.. All states must return to voter ID and count votes with transparency, i.e. ranked choice cheating must be banned in all states, just like it has been banned in Alabama. There must be campaign finance reform to include banning of political action committee (PAC) financing or dark money like Soros, etc.
Restore the Republic before America becomes like Venezuela.
Clyburn is right on one thing. Grandpa Bloodstains has a record no sane president could ever match. Or want to.
The left is admitting to the coop because they have determined there is no downside to doing so.
“……..Democratic mandarins decided to put the welfare of the party — and the country — ahead of the president’s ego………”
That’s a lie. They couldn’t give a rat’s tail about the welfare of the nation. It was all about their cabal and power.
A coup is defined as a “sudden, violent and unlawful seizure of power from a government.” What happened to bring Harris to the top of the ticket meets none of these criteria. MRAK is full of it.
Maureen Dowd / NYT’s headline said it: “The Dems Are Delighted. But a Coup Is Still a Coup.” Enjoy. – sd