A Fatal Failing of Establishment Elites, by Patrick J. Buchanan

Saint of the Day for May 29: St. Madeleine Sophie Barat (Dec. 12, 1779 – May 25, 1865)

Democrats Admit Their 2020 Strategy: Lock Us Up and Starve Us Till We Join Them, by John Zmirak

By Patrick J. Buchanan, May 28, 2020

Biden’s gaffe and Burchard’s slur have this in common: Both manifest a measure of condescension toward a large bloc of voters. Hillary Clinton did something similar in 2016…

In his half-century in national politics, Joe Biden has committed more than his fair share of gaffes. Wednesday, he confused Pearl Harbor Day, Dec. 7, 1941, with D-Day, June 6, 1944.

The more serious recent gaffe, a beaut, came at the close of a recent contentious interview with black activist Charlamagne tha God.

A miffed Biden signed off, saying, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”

Biden was saying that no self-respecting black American would vote for Trump over him this November. Indeed, any such individual would have been labeled in the 1960s with the slur Uncle Tom. …

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