Insincere Grace from Democrats: Biden is No Jimmy Carter and Other Insights

From the Right: Democrats’ Insincere Grace

“Democrats on Capitol Hill are showering praise on themselves for how they handled the certification of the 2024 election results,” observes Mike Mulvaney at The Hill, noting that no Democrat contested the Republican win for the first time since 1988.

However, their self-congratulation regarding their “grace and elegance” requires context. “Where was that grace during the election?”

Democrats frequently labeled Trump a “fascist” intent on “destroying American democracy.”

“A course on grace and elegance in American politics wouldn’t be complete without the usual references to Hitler.”

Don’t be fooled; things haven’t changed: “Regarding Biden’s cordial post-election meeting with Trump in the Oval Office, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted that ‘Biden’s concerns about democracy being under threat’ still stand.”

“This leads me to believe that the certification vote was more of a political spectacle than anything substantial.”

Conservative: Biden is No Jimmy Carter

At the memorial service for Jimmy Carter in DC, “Joe Biden’s eulogy primarily highlighted how different the two were, especially regarding honesty and character,” snarks Kimberly A. Strassel of The Wall Street Journal.

While they faced similar policy challenges—“inflation, energy, crime, global instability”—their characters vastly contrast: “one committed to country and faith, the other to party and self.”

“Carter was elected on a promise never to mislead the American public, and he upheld it.”

“Biden, however, promised not to pardon his son Hunter for serious crimes, yet he did so anyway.”

Even as he extolled Carter’s “character” in his eulogy, it is evident that Biden hadn’t “absorbed the lessons from the 39th president’s example.”

Liberal: The Unstoppable Surge of Energy Realism

Democrats remain fixated on a “climate catastrophist narrative surrounding energy policy,” notes Ruy Teixeira of The Liberal Patriot, demanding “the immediate replacement of fossil fuels, including natural gas, with renewables like wind and solar.”

Nonetheless, despite extensive green expenditure, the U.S. “continues to derive over 80 percent of its energy consumption from fossil fuels, mirroring global trends.”

Furthermore, Democrats faced defeat against Trump, who emphasizes “cheap, abundant energy over clean energy.”

Indeed, asserts Teixeira, “uplifting the billions globally suffering from energy poverty, and the resultant low living standards, should be a moral imperative” — much more so than merely striving for Net Zero carbon emissions.

This also aligns in crucial ways with the growing sentiments among voters, especially the working-class demographic.

Democrats must formulate “their own approach to energy realism instead of chasing the dead-end of climate catastrophism.”

Thiel: A Moment for Truth & Reconciliation

Donald Trump’s “comeback to the White House suggests” the potential unearthing of secrets previously concealed by the “old guard’s battle against the internet,” argues Peter Thiel in the Financial Times.

Perhaps we can finally address the mysteries surrounding the deaths of Jeffrey Epstein and President John Kennedy; we must “lift the restrictions on open discourse regarding Covid-19.”

Anthony Fauci and his chief advisor David Morens “should have the opportunity to disclose unflattering truths about our recent pandemic. Were they aware that Covid emerged from U.S. taxpayer-funded research or a nearby Chinese military project? Why did we support EcoHealth Alliance to send researchers into remote Chinese caves to extract novel coronaviruses?”

Additionally, “how did our government suppress the dissemination of such inquiries across social media?”

Trump’s declassifications “need not serve as grounds for revenge — reconstruction can coexist with reconciliation. However, reconciliation hinges on the acknowledgment of truth.”

Libertarian: Ortega’s Assault on Christianity

Since 2018, “Nicaragua has emerged as one of the 20 most perilous nations for Christians,” warns Katarina Hall from Reason.

Initially focusing on the Catholic Church, President Daniel Ortega and his wife/VP Rosario Murillo have “forcibly shut down” over “1,100 religious institutions” and dissolved the “Episcopal Diocese of Nicaragua along with 92 other religious organizations.”

“Easter processions, Christmas festivities, and even cemetery prayers have all been prohibited.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board