What the ‘Garbage Controvery’ Says About Democrats

The “garbage controversy” of this campaign’s final days embodies the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Far from a parallel, it highlights the separation between unscripted and scripted across an ideological chasm. Hidden beneath their relativism, Democrats, Left, and establishment media have exploited incidents to construct false narratives and advance extremist policies.

On Sunday October 27, Donald Trump held a sold out rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden.  It featured celebrities like Elon Musk, Hulk Hogan, Tucker Carlson, and RFK Jr.  However, it was a comparatively obscure standup comedian by the name of Tony Hinchcliffe who got the establishment media’s biggest coverage, when during his routine he called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.”  Trump and his campaign distanced themselves from the remarks; so too, numerous elected Republicans. (READ MORE from J.T. Young: Americans’ Justified Media Mistrust)

Two days later, at the same time Kamala Harris was giving a “unity speech” on Washington’s Ellipse, President Biden spoke on a campaign call hosted by Voto Latino, “the nation’s premier Latinx voter registration organization.”  During his call, Biden said “the only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.” Harris and other vulnerable Democrats sought to distance themselves from the President’s remarks — White House spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, even tried to distance Biden from them.

The establishment media would have us believe that the two sets of remarks cancel each other out, just the latest examples of a coarsening of America’s political debate.  However, even in the Left’s revisionary relativism, the two are far from equivalent.

Hinchcliffe’s remarks were dumb.  Period.  And it was dumb to have a standup comic who works on the edge at a political rally. Standup comics riff, following their feel of their material’s flow.  Trump’s campaign should have seen the potential for danger and chosen better and Trump should have stepped hard on the comments.

That Hinchcliffe’s comments, out of all the others uttered by others, were seized on is also not a surprise.  Democrats, the Left, and the establishment media were looking for something to seize on.  After all, they are losing and are desperately looking for something, anything, to change this race’s trajectory. Trump’s team shouldn’t have made it easy for them. Yet, in the end, this was a standup comic.

In contrast to Republicans’ standup comic, the Democrats’ malefactor is the President of the United States.  Biden is a professional politician and has been for over half a century. He is America’s highest elected official.

Biden had 48 hours to prepare his remarks, and he clearly prepared off Hinchcliffe’s “garbage” line.  Biden’s remarks called “his supporters” — not Trump himself — “garbage.” That is half of America.  An America Biden was elected to represent. Nor was Biden’s remark an isolated one.  He had said about Trump “we gotta lock him up” not long before.

There is no equivalence here.

What there is, is a pattern — a Democrat, Left, and establishment media pattern — that has been followed throughout this campaign, and accelerated lately.  It is one of calling Trump a fascist and likening him to Hitler.  Far from unscripted, it clearly is their script. Kamala Harris has said it — and she has doubled down on it.  Numerous elected Democrats have echoed it. They have vilified Trump from the beginning and have continued to do so, despite two assassination attempts on him.

Nor do the precedents for Biden’s “garbage” comment end there. They go back years. They go back to Hillary Clinton’s line about “basket of deplorables” in 2016. They go back to Barack Obama’s comments about “cling[ing] to guns, religion, or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them” years before that.

Democrat Intolerance for the ‘Other’

There is an inescapable Democrat antipathy toward people who aren’t like them,” who do not think like them, and who will not support — or at least acquiesce — to them and their policies. It is equally impossible to not see the parallels to their Cancel Culture in broader society.

Democrats, the Left, and the establishment media simply see their opponents this way. The elitism is equally unmistakable, because they clearly look down on them: “garbage” and “deplorables.”

This pattern also extends beyond politics to policies. Democrats and the Left have habitually exploited incidents, constructed a narrative from it, excluded other interpretations, and pursued policies to address their narrative.  Defund the Police, Sanctuary Cities, a radical DEI agenda, an extremist environmental onslaught — all just some among many examples. (READ MORE: Americans’ Justified Media Mistrust)

Far from a distraction, the campaign’s “garbage controversy” is a revelation. It illustrates clear distinctions: unscripted versus scripted, unrepresentative versus elected representatives, unintended versus premeditated. For Democrats, Biden’s comment was more faux pas than fault: his sin being one of candor. It extends throughout the Democrats, the Left, and the establishment media: seizing on an anomalous incident that Americans don’t condone, to enforce their narrative and impose pervasive policies that Americans oppose.

J.T. Young is the author of the upcoming book,Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed America’s Socialist Left from RealClear Publishing and has over three decades’ experience working in Congress, Department of Treasury, and OMB, and representing a Fortune 20 company.

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