As I turned on my TV a few days ago [Aug.29], it was unfortunately set on a station featuring The View’s replay of a July 24 interview with California Democrat Adam Schiff. Going on for approximately 11 minutes, Schiff made one gross generalization after another about Biden, Kamala and Trump, while offering no evidence whatsoever of the validity of his views. Whoopi and company of course nodded along in agreement. What was truly nauseating about his interview was the smug, sanctimonious manner in which he expressed himself, as if only a simpleton could possibly disagree.
Biden, he said, was an amazing president, accomplishing more in one term than most do in two. This is utter nonsense! Referring to Biden’s decision to step down as a wonderfully “selfless” act, he was pressed for information on the behind the scenes machinations that led to that decision. Many of course feel that Joe was forced to resign against his will. Not wanting to feed the narrative that the Democratic Party had engaged in a coup, Schiff answered conveniently that he really had no insider information on what led the president to step down. Really, Mr. Schiff ?
Declaring with equal audacity that Kamala was an amazing Vice President, Schiff did what today’s Democrats habitually do and dismissed all criticisms of her third-rate performance as matters of racism and misogyny. Truly disgusting! So also his suggestion that a Trump victory in the upcoming election could spell the end of American Democracy. To my knowledge, Trump was president for 4 years and Democracy managed to survive. As for the events of Jan. 6 being an attempted coup, a boatload of facts challenge that narrative. But facts don’t really seem to matter to the contemporary Left and both Whoopi and her audience reacted favorably to Schiff’s prolonged exhibition of bias. Such is the state of political discourse here in the “progressive” West!