Behold, the Villains: Biden Family Defenders Make the Case for a Hero

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:

After practicing in the mirror all night, AOC delivers a fiery pre-written script to Tony Bobulinski, calling on him to point to the exact crime Joe Biden committed.

Watch him embarrass her into a full on tantrum! pic.twitter.com/8NDyirleoY

— Lori Love (@thereallorilove) March 20, 2024

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:

"That's a blatant lie Mr. Goldman, you know better"

Tony Bobulinski calls out Rep. Goldman for trying to cover for the Biden crime family. pic.twitter.com/FcFQ5wz9zZ

— Media Research Center (@theMRC) March 20, 2024

And the disgusting Jasmine Crockett:

America’s classiest Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett has another meltdown defending the Biden crime family pic.twitter.com/dDfNW8rNMu

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 20, 2024

And Jared Moskowitz, whose juvenile antics made zero sense at all:

Delusional Dem Jared Moskowitz wears a Putin Mask to hearing on the Biden family’s influence peddling schemes:

“I just came to thank James Comer for taking all of our intelligence…!”

REPORTER: “Don’t you think this behavior is kind of immature?” pic.twitter.com/DBl6NBCDfG

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 20, 2024

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?

Nobody who meets with antisemites like Nick Fuentes, called white supremacists in Charlottesville “very fine people,” disgustingly said Hitler “did some good things” has any right to lecture Jewish Americans on their personal political beliefs

Everyone must condemn Trump’s words pic.twitter.com/EJgRLIr1mC

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) March 19, 2024

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:

WATCH:@SenJohnKennedy: “You said, ‘assault weapons may be banned because they’re extraordinarily dangerous and are not appropriate for legitimate self-defense purposes.’ Tell me what you meant by assault weapons?”

Biden’s Seventh Circuit judge nominee Nancy Maldonado: “I’m not… pic.twitter.com/1ctY2E64IO

— Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) March 20, 2024

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:

The greatest threat to free and fair elections this November are right wing and Republican election vigilantes intimidating and challenging voters and harassing election officials. @InsideWithPsaki @jrpsaki pic.twitter.com/9cUqlbnEAR

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) March 19, 2024

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:

.@RealPNavarro before he turns himself into prison saying he will walk PROUDLY into prison as the only person in the Miami prison convicted of a misdemeanor.

“I will gather strength from this: Donald John Trump is the nominee for the Republican Presidential Campaign.” pic.twitter.com/0zwVMggSVT

— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) March 19, 2024

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:

He hasn’t bothered anyone and has never gotten involved in politics or made a public statement.

He deserves to be left alone.

All children of candidates who don’t put themselves out there should be left alone. pic.twitter.com/P7kPJpzaCp

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) March 20, 2024

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:

NY AG Letitia James is now allowed to seize Donald Trump's assets, starting Monday.

I hear Mar-a-Lago may have some value.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) March 19, 2024

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:

Kevin O'Leary goes off on New York AG Letitia James:

"This has absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump at this point. This is an attack on America. And I don't know how you can look at it any other way."
pic.twitter.com/Xps5j8k1MJ

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 19, 2024

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:

Joe Rogan Rips Fani Willis, Letitia James, and the Political Prosecutions of Donald Trump: "It Seems Like What Happens in Banana Republics"

"It's crazy how many times they've indicted him because it seems like what happens in banana republics, but just somehow or another, it's… pic.twitter.com/IvcpDtBstI

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) March 15, 2024

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:

1. There Is No Evidence that Ford and Kavanaugh Ever Met

2. Leland Keyser Said She Did Not Have ‘Any Confidence’ in Her Friend’s Story

3. Friends Pressured Keyser to Change Her Story

4. All Alleged Witnesses Strongly Dispute the Claim

5. Ford’s Father Supported Kavanaugh’s… https://t.co/tEJxIbkhuE

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) March 20, 2024

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:

God damn these Republican assholes on the Supreme Court. https://t.co/XEqKpaJ0rg

— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 19, 2024

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.

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