A popular Twitter account that goes by the handle @BasedByAccident highlights how conservatives, often accidentally, come to understand progressive points of view — even if they don’t realize it or think they’re owning the libs. If I may humbly suggest their latest entry it should be this.
In case you didn’t know, former House speaker, family values man, adulterer, and failed presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has a blog to document his every political thought and memory.
Recently he had mouthful to say about President Biden, largely unfavorably. However, he also unintentionally shined a light on just how history will remember Biden - quite favorably, in fact.
Here are some highlights from his blog post:
The Biden team took an amazingly narrow four-vote majority in the U.S. House and a 50-50 tie in the Senate and turned it into trillions of dollars in spending – and a series of radical bills. The latest bill on sexual rights overriding all other rights was bitterly opposed by virtually every conservative even as it passed with Republican support.
Contrast this with team Trump, who controlled during during the 115th session of Congress held a Congressional trifecta with about 40 more House seats than the Democrats and a Senatorial margin of 1 to 2. President Biden, with the admirable politicking skills of Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer, accomplished as much if not far more with a tenth of the margin Paul Ryan held in the House and a 50-50 Senate with 2 essentially rogue Democrats (Manchin and Sinema).
Biden has carefully and cautiously waged war in Ukraine with no American troops. Although poorly timed and slowly delivered, U.S. weapons and financial aid have helped cripple what most thought would be an easy victory for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
When the worst attack Newt can cobble up is poor timing, you know Sleepy Joe did one heckuva job. Not a single American soldier has been sent to die in Ukraine unlike in Iraq and Afghanistan under Dubya. And Zelenskyy has been humiliating Russia so thoroughly the Ukrainian army recently reclaimed Kherson and chatter is in the air of retaking Crimea. Thank you for the feedback, Mr. Speaker!
Despite terrible problems with the economy, crime, and the border (which led many analysts, me included, to assume the GOP would make big gains in November) Biden and his team executed a strategy of polarizing Americans against Donald Trump supporters. They turned Jan. 6 into a crisis which eclipsed the Left’s previous summer of fire, chaos, and destruction. They also grossly exaggerated the threat to abortion rights. And it all worked.
What a way to highlight how successfully Biden has sold Democratic policies to the American people by… calling January 6 out as the coup it was, incomparable to pockets of violence in a sea of peaceful protests based in legitimate racial grievances. Oh, and also NOT advocating, and in fact fighting against, turning America into a white Christian Taliban for women of all races. Such radical Marxist policies!!!
The Biden team had one of the best first term off-year elections in history. They were not repudiated. They did not have to pay for their terrible mismanagement of the economy.
This statement has been fact checked by Dark Brandon acolytes. Our judgement: False.
Combine these political achievements on the President’s part with the former guy’s pathological inability to let go of his 2020 electoral defeat. This has led to him extending into 2022 still clinging onto the Big Lie with his supporters, thus nominating Big Lie fanatics who independents loathed by YUGE margins. It’s hard to see why Republicans like Gingrich who actually care about winning *wouldn’t* do some soul searching after their embarrassing defeats and narrow victories last November.
Let’s just hope they don’t figure out the answer by 2024.