The Garbage Election

31.10.2024 23:02

When historians look back at the 2024 presidential election, they may refer to it as the “garbage election.” A few days ago, the leader of the Democratic Party and president of the United States called supporters of GOP candidate Donald Trump “garbage.” This may be the 2024 election’s “deplorables” moment that pushes Trump over the finish line. And it once again reveals what the elite Democrats in Washington, D.C., think of the American citizens who dare to oppose their rule.

The Trump campaign, of course, immediately took advantage of President Joe Biden’s remark by publicly outfitting their candidate as a garbage worker and sitting him inside a garbage truck. The White House and Harris campaign are trying to limit the damage but Biden’s remark is likely a bell that cannot be unrung any more than could Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” remark be in 2016.

Biden’s comment is one of those moments when truth pierces through the veil of deceit that surrounds most political campaigns. Biden didn’t need a teleprompter to tell the American people what was in his heart and mind: If you support Donald Trump, you are “garbage.” It doesn’t get any more transparent than that.

Of course, not every transparent slip of the tongue dooms candidates and campaigns. Back in 2008, Barack Obama described small-town Pennsylvanians as clinging to guns and religion, but he still won Pennsylvania and the election. Hillary wasn’t so lucky. And her characterization of Trump supporters as “deplorables,” like Biden’s calling them “garbage,” tarred the whole nation of Trump supporters, not just Pennsylvanians.

Biden, of course, is no longer the candidate in 2024, but the election will, in part, be a referendum on his presidency and Harris’ role in the administration. Biden’s timing could not have been better for Trump because it mostly overshadowed the crude statements about Puerto Ricans made by the comedian at the recent Trump rally in Madison Square Garden. A fourth-rate comedian’s remarks (crude comedians are a dime a dozen) don’t compare in significance to those of the president of the United States and titular head of the Democratic Party.

Whether or not Biden’s remark affects the outcome of the election, it does provide additional insight into how the elites in Washington, D.C., and our bicoastal meccas view ordinary Americans who perhaps didn’t go to college or graduate school, regularly attend religious services, enjoy exercising their Second Amendment rights, and have the temerity to support Donald Trump. And this elite view is very much a bipartisan affair, even if it is more pronounced on the Democratic side. The widespread disdain for Trumpian populism can be seen and heard daily on MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and NPR. You can read it daily in the New York Times, Washington Post and other big-city papers. It is regularly featured in the Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, the Economist, Time, the New Yorker, the New Republic, and other journals. It appears often in George Will columns, and even shows up in the formerly esteemed National Review.

The elitists look down their noses at the unwashed, uneducated, less-refined among the citizenry who don’t want an open southern border, don’t want their sons and daughters fighting endless wars, don’t want their tax dollars to pay for inmates’ transgender surgeries, don’t want to be forced to drive electric vehicles, and don’t want dangerous criminal illegal aliens roaming their streets and communities. And they don’t appreciate being called “deplorables” and “garbage.”

Eight years ago, Hillary Clinton rhetorically gathered Trump supporters in a “basket of deplorables.” Now, Joe Biden has rhetorically consigned them to a landfill. One would think that might matter on Election Day.

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