Last week, President Biden served up a Thanksgiving leftover that no one wanted: a “full and unconditional pardon” of his son Hunter.Among Democrats, full and unconditional heartburn has ensued. This, to go along with the Democrats’ preexisting agita set off by last month’s election defeat, their circular blame-gaming, Donald Trump’s ruffian roster of Cabinet picks, and Kamala Harris’s continuing onslaught of post-debacle fundraising emails (unsubscribe, please!). Now already despondent Democrats have been left trying to explain away the rank hypocrisy of the outgoing octogenarian in the White House.As soon as the pardon news dropped, I thought of that metaphor that people still toss around to explain Trump’s appeal: He’s a “big middle finger” to the priggish pieties of the political establishment. It is not that Trump’s supporters admire everything about him. They just appreciate that his impolitic language and crude style are a rebuke to the self-serving hypocrites in charge.Turns… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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