Election a wake-up call for the woke
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It turns out that siccing the FBI onto Mama Bear and Papa Bear is not a vote winner.
Nor is indoctrinating their children in the fine arts of racial hatred, homosexual pornography, gender neutrality and anti-Americanism.
The right of parents to have a say in what their children are taught in school wasn’t everything driving the red wave that swamped Democrats on Tuesday, but their school board battles exemplified the anti-woke backlash sweeping the country.
And, looming over every ballot, was Joe Biden’s disastrous presidency. Soaring gas prices, inflation, supply-chain shortages, rising crime, out-of-control illegal migration and the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan are just a few of the self-inflicted debacles the president seems stubbornly determined to ignore.
So Tuesday became the “Brandon” election, as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dubbed it, referring to the new anthem of the disaffected: “Let’s go, Brandon.”
A polite substitute for the “F–k Joe Biden” chant rocking sports stadiums every weekend, the Brandon euphemism came about at a NASCAR race at the Talladega Superspeedway on Oct. 2. The crowd started chanting “F–k Joe Biden!” when winner Brandon Brown was being interviewed and the NBC reporter misheard or tried to conceal the profanity, telling Brown: “You can hear the chants from the crowd. Let’s go, Brandon!”
This caused much public mirth, and a new chant was born.
“Let’s go, Brandon!” is a gentle expression of derision for a vengeful, blundering president who won office on a promise of being a trustworthy moderate who would unify the country and then proved to be the opposite.
The slogan is everywhere, on billboards, on T-shirts and hats, and protest signs at Biden events. Rapper Bryson Gray topped the music charts with a “Let’s Go Brandon” ditty, beating even Adele.
Dems, who spent four years wishing death on Donald Trump, are enraged at the mockery and have tried to rebrand the Brandon slogan as white supremacy.
After a Southwest Airlines pilot supposedly said, “Let’s go, Brandon!” over the intercom during a flight last week, they campaigned to get him fired and he was branded a domestic terrorist akin to ISIS by an FBI agent-turned-CNN leftist.
Sliming Republicans as domestic terrorists and white supremacists is the new “Russia Russia Russia” excuse deployed by Dems after every setback.
So, of course, after Tuesday’s drubbing at the polls, all we heard on MSNBC and CNN was that mild-mannered Glenn Youngkin had won the governor’s race in Virginia because of racism.
“These Republicans are dangerous … to our national security,” ranted MSNBC’s Joy Reid, “because stoking that kind of soft white nationalism eventually leads to the hard-core stuff.”
Well, Virginia’s sensational new lieutenant governor, former Marine Winsome Sears, has news for Reid.
“I have been black all my life, but that’s not what this is about,” the mother of three and former small businesswoman said in a patriotic victory speech.
“We are framing too many issues in terms of race,” she told Fox News later. “It just continues to divide us and unfortunately politicians are using it … to advance their nefarious purposes … I’m destroying all the narratives about race. Look at me.”
Amen.
Finally, what the election results showed is that using Trump as a bogeyman doesn’t work anymore.
Stumping for Terry McAuliffe last week, Biden mentioned his predecessor an obsessive 24 times in one speech.
Trump Derangement Syndrome might have driven voters to the polls in 2020, but Youngkin was endorsed by Trump and remained respectful, albeit aloof, and still won over a blue state Biden had taken by 16 points.
Tuesday also showed that the patriotic populist movement centered around family wins elections for Republicans even without Trump on the ticket.
“Republicans are the party of parents, of education, of small businesses, of freedom, and family,” said New York Rep. Elise Stefanik.
Biden showed no self-reflection about the results and twice refused to accept any responsibility for the election results.
His presidency is on the skids and he seems to have no plan to recover. Just 37 percent of Americans say he is competent and effective as president, an NBC poll found last week. More than 70 percent believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, and that includes 70 percent of independents.
Even Democrats are displaying “Biden remorse.” A new NPR-PBS-Marist poll found that 44 percent of Democrats want someone else to be their nominee in 2024. The question is will Biden even make it that far.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/03/election-a-wake-up-call-for-the-woke-devine/
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