Podcaster Jon Lovett recently admitted what a lot of Democrats believed in 2024. Despite the fact that President Joe Biden was no longer fit to serve, they didn’t care.
Lovett, a former Obama speechwriter and host of “Pod Save America” admitted that “I remember feeling I want to talk about this as a huge liability. To talk about this is something Joe Biden can overcome, but I’m not going to go as far as to say, ‘I think Joe Biden must drop out. He is too old to be president … because I didn’t exactly know what was going on behind the scenes, but if Joe Biden is the presidential candidate, I want him to win.”
That’s it. Bottom line.
It doesn’t matter whether Biden was fit to be president, or if he was even in control of the White House. As long as the Democrat won, that is all that mattered.
Democrats routinely criticize my column, and they rarely challenge the facts or the assessments, but they question whether or not I should even be sharing concerns at all.
Our social media page recently came under attack for a different columnist who suggested the Democrats “who broke the law” should be prosecuted.
One even called for a boycott of the paper for suggesting lawbreakers should be prosecuted.
The author, Derek Hunter, didn’t suggest that conservative districts of the country drum up an excuse to go after someone who hasn’t broken the law. He didn’t suggest that every record of a Democrat should be subpoenaed and combed through to try to find any reason to file charges. He didn’t ask candidates to run with the promise of finding something to charge against a political rival — all things that were done by Democrats in the previous election cycle.
He simply said that those who have “broken the law” should be prosecuted.
Democrats are very savvy at controlling the narrative, and they have had the benefit of using the legacy media to carry their water.
As long as you control what gets out to the people, you can control the population. It’s worked for quite some time.
This admission by Lovett shows just how important it is to prevent any information from reaching the public.
The fear with this thinking is that there are those who believe partisan politics is the apex of any and all morality.
I truly expected there to be more instances of voting issues in the 2024 election because there are those who justify cheating in elections if that is what it takes, they believe, to prevent someone from becoming president.
Donald Trump campaigned with the notion that his side would have to have such strong support that the election would have to be “too big to rig.”
A look at the outcome of the 2020 election will continue to be an anomaly, and yet few speak about it.
Look at this list of the last eight presidential elections:
1996 — Clinton (47 million)
2000 — Bush (50 million) +3m
2004 — Bush (63 million) +13m
2008 — Obama (69 million) +6m
2012 — Obama (65 million) -4m
2016 — Trump (62 million) -3m
2020 — Biden (81 million) +19m
2024 — Trump (77 million) -4m
Notice how one of those numbers sticks out like a sore thumb?
In one election cycle Biden garnered 19 million more votes than his predecessor, and then the number dropped back down after that one election.
That election, by the way, took place during a pandemic when voting, like other public activities, was considered to be a suppressed activity as many were afraid of exposing themselves to COVID.
Some would say this doesn’t pass the smell test.
But if you control the narrative you make that language virtually illegal. And if you find a complicit legacy media willing to join in on the narrative.
Is there any provable evidence of wrongdoing? I can’t say that there was. Does it look abnormal? Absolutely it does.
But to the podcasters on the far left and the legacy media, the ends justify the means, and if you have to keep negative information out of the public view in order to win, that’s what you do.
Even if it means the deep state continues to make decisions for all of us. Even if it means the presidential staff runs the show.
Because to them, it is their people. They are just as much the deep state as those serving in government.
Recently the Supreme Court sided with Trump on firing board members at the national level because, in their view, the president would have to spend a massive amount of his term countermanding board members working against the president.
That is the highest level of authenticity given to the concerns of those who believe it is the bureaucrats and not the elected running the show.
One party believes that is wrong. The other believes it is the highest morality, that as long as the deep state pushes the far left socialist agenda then they will do whatever it takes to justify their jobs and their ability to impede the will of the voters.
For the first time in history a major political party has put men atop the podium in women’s sports and will villainize anyone who challenges it. For the first time a major political party is defending illegal immigrant criminals who have been involved with human trafficking, drug dealing and wife beating.
This is because their morality is elitist and better than your morality, and believe them when they say they will do whatever it takes to keep you from being able to change it.
Earl Watt is the owner and publisher of the Leader & Times in Liberal, Kansas. Watt started his career in journalism in 1991 at the Southwest Daily Times. During his career, the newspaper has won a total of 17 Sweepstakes awards from the Kansas Press Association for editorial content and 18 Sweepstakes awards for advertising. Watt has been recognized with more than 70 first place awards for writing in categories from sports and column to best front pages, best sports pages and best opinion pages. Watt is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and is the descendant of several patriots who fought for America's freedom and independence.
Great column. The 19 million voter participation margin between 2016 and 2020 is greater than the entire individual populations of 46 of the 50 states. Kind of makes you go “hmmm….?”