“Yep he did it and too bad if you don’t like it!”
Ever since President Joe Biden pardoned handed his son Hunter Biden a blanket pardon for the past decade, the media has been quick to condemn the move. It’s the usual performance art in which the media judges liberals and Democrats against perfection, while judging Trump and the Republicans against zero. The media is proving itself to be, as usual, worthless. But I’m more interested in our reaction.
I’ve seen a ton of earnest arguments from leading voices on our side who are arguing the moral justification for the Hunter Biden pardon. For one thing, Trump handed out far more eyebrow raising pardons. For another thing, Joe Biden is specifically trying to protect his son from any upcoming malicious prosecution on the part of the Trump regime. These are all very valid arguments. But I think they miss the point.
You know what our response should be to Joe Biden pardoning Hunter Biden? “Yep he did it and too bad if you don’t like it.” I’m serious. This is what the other side always says to us whenever Trump or the Republicans do something morally debatable. In their view, simply pulling it off and getting away with it is its own virtue. Strength, as they see it, is the real virtue.
The people on the other side don’t care about the moral arguments that we’re making. They don’t care about the right and wrong of it. For that matter neither do the people in the middle. They simply see strength as a virtue. They think that if a politician pulls something off and gets away with it, then it must have been justified. It’s utterly insane logic. But it’s how the middle third and the rightmost third of the country sees things.
So when we’re dealing with something like the Hunter Biden pardon, our best approach is to simply say that since Joe Biden was strong enough to pull off the pardon, anyone who doesn’t like it can just suck it up. That’s what shuts these idiots down. The dummies in the middle will say “yep, strong leader” and the thugs on the right won’t have anything to say in response.
I’m not saying we go fully rogue. It’s not about that. We are the good guys in this fight, and we have to remain the good guys. But you know what? Let’s not get bogged down in overly earnest moral arguments about the right and wrong of the battles we’re about to face. We know that Biden was morally justified in pardoning his son, and that’s enough. When it comes to making our outward facing arguments, let’s simply tell them to go screw themselves if they don’t like it. That’s the approach we should take with every upcoming battle we manage to win. Flaunt it. Throw it in their faces. Impress the dummies in the middle. Make Trump and the Republicans look weak. That’s how we build momentum and stop Trump in his tracks.
