A couple of weeks ago, I talked about the fact that the 2024 presidential election is becoming a real-life political analog to the hero’s journey, the literary archetype from which so much of our culture derives. My point wasn’t so much that Donald Trump, who is cast as the hero of the saga, contains all of the heroic virtues the archetype demands but that Trump’s enemies are casting themselves so perfectly as the villains.
In comparison, Trump looks quite virtuous indeed.
Recently, it’s been made yet more obvious how utterly bereft of quality the modern Left is. You have to wonder how well-read these people are and whether they recognize any context at all for their antics and rhetoric.
For example, on Wednesday the House of Representatives held a hearing to talk about the Chinese bribe money paid to the Biden family, something that is virtually incontrovertible at this point. We know that the Chinese Communist Party–controlled CEFC made a $5 million payment to a company controlled by Hunter Biden in August of 2017; what we haven’t been given a plausible explanation for was what exactly CEFC got in return.
And yet Joe Biden’s designated defenders among the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee chose to beclown themselves with such over-the-top idiocies, and you have to ask whether they think they’ve muddled the situation or made it worse.
For example, here was AOC:
She wasn’t the only one who fell afoul of former Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski, whom the Democrats fervently wish never existed. Here was the obnoxious Dan Goldman:
And the disgusting Jasmine Crockett:
And Jared Moskowitz, whose juvenile antics made zero sense at all:
And I can’t discuss the villainy of the modern Democrat Party without including Chuck the Schmuck Schumer and his ridiculous lies — what does Charlottesville have to do with Benjamin Netanyahu, whom Schumer has denounced with little to no justification?
And then you have Joe Biden’s nominee for a spot on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Nancy Maldonado, who can’t even answer a simple question from Sen. John Kennedy about the assault weapons she sought to ban:
Away from Congress, we have Marc Elias, the sleazebag Clinton campaign lawyer who, as much as anyone else, was the architect of the Trump–Russia hoax, running to MSNBC with a fresh set of conspiracy theories:
Then there’s Peter Navarro, who obviously isn’t a leftist but is about to spent three months in a federal prison over a disagreement about which presidential communications fall under executive privilege, and the former Trump trade adviser had some prophetic and terrifying words of warning for the rest of us:
Is the Left paying attention? No. This is what the Left wants to talk about now. Mike Sington is a former executive at NBCUniversal who bills himself as “the ultimate Hollywood insider,” and he posted this on X before taking it down:
And they’re in fine fettle over the fact that, starting on Monday, Letitia James, the attorney general of the state of New York, will be able to seize assets owned by Donald Trump:
Dan Rather helmed CBS’s evening newscast for several years, though it was ultimately recognized that Rather’s grasp of the truth was tenuous at best. Even so, one wonders whether Rather knows that Mar-a-Lago is not in New York and that it would be very questionable whether courts in Florida would allow James to seize it (as opposed to several properties in the state of New York owned by Trump that actually are in jeopardy of seizure).
Famed investor and Shark Tank cast member Kevin O’Leary, who is not a political hack but rather a businessman who operates in the realm of market realities, threw a massive wet blanket over the villains’ petty party:
O’Leary is correct, of course, because the implications of that half-billion-dollar asset seizure go far beyond Trump. No one in his or her right mind would engage in real-estate speculation in New York now because the precedent has been set that falling afoul of James or some other Lavrentiy Beria–style law enforcement goon in that state could subject one to utterly ruinous consequences.
Joe Rogan had this correct:
The Democrat propagandists who run The View decided to resurrect the liar Christine Blasey Ford and put her on their show this morning, utterly without any news value, and the effect was not what you’d call great television:
And another network leftist, MSNBC’s Elie Mystal, had this highly intellectual reaction to the Supreme Court handing down an entirely predictable and correct ruling that Texas can make its state laws mirror federal laws and, in turn, enforce them:
It goes on and on.
There is so much of it that the compendium above barely scratches the surface.
We are utterly awash in miserable, idiotic, unhinged, and utterly evil people attaching themselves to our politics, most of whom are on the left. It’s a horde of villains who no longer believe in anything but the hatred and subjugation of their fellow man.
And this is why, regardless of whether Trump fits the mold of the classic literary hero, he’s forced into the role. Someone has to defeat these villains, or all is lost.
For better or worse, it’s him.
