SHAPIRO: Biden's Supposed 'Return To Normalcy' Would Be Garbage

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After spending two years avoiding serious questions about his policy
preferences, his team and his prospective presidency, we now know what
Joe Biden intends to do should the Electoral College, as expected, vote
for him in December: He’ll reopen the swamp for business. The media
spent four long years suggesting that President Donald Trump was
steeped in corruption, ensconced in partisanship, enmeshed in dangerous
foreign policy fiascos. The media assured us that they would defend
democracy from Trump’s brutalities, that they would spend every waking
moment fighting to prevent anyone from accepting Trumpian standards as
the “new normal.”

Instead, the media suggested we needed to return to the old “normal” —
by which they meant a system in which the media and Democrats worked
hand-in-glove together to lie to the American public about the content
of policy (“If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your
doctor!” — former President Barack Obama); in which conventional wisdom
was treated as gospel truth, no matter how wrong it was (“There will be
no advanced and separate peace with the Arab world without the
Palestinian process” — John Kerry on Israel); and in which cozy
relationships between corporations and government were considered de
rigueur.

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They meant a system in which all difficult political questions were put
off for another day; in which scandals were brushed off without a
second thought; in which even anti-journalistic efforts by Democrats
were dismissed as out of hand. It was a system in which constitutional
boundaries were routinely overridden in the name of left-wing policy
priorities; in which nasty rhetoric by Democrats was written off as a
natural byproduct of the right’s innate evil; in which alternative news
sources were treated as conspiracy outlets.

That’s the “normal” the media and Democrats wanted.

And it’s the normal they’ll apparently be pursuing. Biden is stacking
his administration with all the members of the establishment Democratic
gang. Tony Blinken, most famous for embracing the Iran deal and
encouraging more American troops in Syria, will be headed to the State
Department. Janet Yellen, fresh from her tenure as Federal Reserve
chairwoman under Obama, will be headed to the Department of the
Treasury. Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser when he was
vice president, most famous for the suggestion that the Iran deal was a
stellar piece of negotiation (it wasn’t), will become the White House
national security adviser.

Meanwhile, the media will continue to cover Biden in sycophantic
fashion. This week, The Washington Post ran an entire piece devoted to
the wonders of the New Biden Era, titled “Washington’s establishment
hopes a Biden presidency will make schmoozing great again.” The piece
celebrated the old normal as “respect for experience and expertise,” as
“civility and bipartisan cooperation,” as an opportunity to “bring
people back together.” One wonders what sort of peyote the editorial
staff of The Washington Post must be ingesting in order to remember the
Obama Era so fondly; then, one quickly realizes that they’re simply
high from huffing Democratic flatulence.

The old normal wasn’t good. That’s why Donald Trump was elected. It’s
why Democrats nearly lost the House, and why they seem poised to not
take back the Senate despite Trump’s personal unpopularity. The old
normal stank of cronyism and oligarchy, of corrupt relationships
between the Democratic infrastructure and the Democrats’ praetorian
guard in the media.

Today, the media celebrate the return of the old normal. That
celebration is likely to again result in a backlash they can’t control.
And they’ll be just as puzzled as ever about why everyone else wasn’t
as overjoyed as them about the return of the establishment Democratic
swamp.

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Democrats and the liberal media hate President Trump more than they
love this country.