Nancy Pelosi got blamed for top-down “orchestration,” but the Cabal was broader than that
By Ken Reid
The primary reasons voters elected Donald Trump over Kamala Harris and
chose a Republican Congress were Joe Biden and the Democrats’ miserable
handling of the economy, immigration and foreign policy – and their
embrace of far-left “woke” polices, like sex-change operations for
prisoners and other “transgender rights.”
However, the Democrat
“strategy” of hitting Trump with multiple indictments, tagging him and
his supporters as “existential threats to democracy,” and scaring women
over abortion rights after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision may also
have backfired, because these efforts were really designed to deflect
attention from the harmful impacts of Biden’s bad policies and actions.
Topping it off, when he was pushed off the ticket for Vice President
Kamala Harris in July, many voters may have smelled a rat. In essence,
all of this was masterminded by a few political chieftains, notably
former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Whip James Clyburn
(D-SC), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Senate Majority
Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and probably the Obamas, Clintons and their
“strategists.”
Indeed, on MSNBC November 9, former Harris spokesperson and one-time Bernie Sanders operative Symone Sanders-Townsend (no relation to the senator), mouthed off against Pelosi,
saying she “orchestrated the very public demise of the president.
And thank God for Joe Biden, that he came out and, yes, endorsed his VP.
Pelosi is known for being “calculated,” she went on to say, but “where
is her calculator now?”
The key words here are “orchestration”
and “calculating.” One could say “None dare call it conspiracy,” or
resurrect then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s 1998 phrase “vast right-wing conspiracy” that “has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.”
Ms. Clinton was denounced for calling it a “conspiracy.” In reality, a
group of conservative activists and publications did continue an
“opposition research” campaign against President Bill Clinton from the
day he was elected in 1992, to persuade Congress and courts to
investigate him, impeach him and undermine his presidency.
It
didn’t really work. Like Donald Trump, Bill Clinton was impeached, but
he resurrected himself, while Hillary went on to become a US Senator
from New York and Secretary of State – and came close to defeating Trump
for president in 2016.
The vast-left wing orchestration
against Trump, however, was much more intricate, extensive and
orchestrated than what conservatives used to tarnish Clinton. For
example:
- Advancing the phony “Russiagate” scandal, at the highest levels of government
- Supporting and glorifying the “mostly peaceful” “Resistance” against the Trump presidency
- Instigating the 2019 House impeachment
- Demanding school and business lockdowns during the Covid pandemic, to hurt the economy and President Trump
- Supporting and capitalizing on the George Floyd riots
- Perpetuating “January 6” investigations, hearings, indictments and media coverage
- Promoting fear and hysteria following the Dobbs decision and various state limitations on abortion
- Pushing challengers out of the 2020 primaries to anoint Joe Biden (South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn’s “masterstroke”)
- Preventing a competitive 2024 primary against Biden
-
Holding a Biden-Trump debate after primaries had ended, to see how
President Biden would perform – and then forcing him off the ticket
because he bombed
- Coronating Kamala Harris after Biden was ousted
Many are convinced that
all
these schemes were orchestrated by the Cabal of Pelosi, Schumer, the
Obamas, the Clintons, and their strategists. Perhaps they wanted Biden
to be the 2020 nominee, instead of independent-minded people like
Senators Amy Klobuchar or Elizabeth Warren, or outsiders like Pete
Buttigieg or Michael Bloomberg, because they knew they could manipulate
Biden more easily.
However, Joe Biden was never a leader in the
US Senate; he was a follower. He does little thinking for himself, but
makes decisions based on the advice of bureaucrats, political aides and
special interests. He largely approved all the big-spending legislation
and regulatory initiatives the Democrats and his Obama-holdover aides
wanted when they regained control of Congress after 2020. And he opened
the nation’s borders to salve the bleeding hearts of his policy wonks.
“Joe Biden is nothing more than a Trojan horse for the radical
socialists,” former Vice President Mike Pence warned in 2020. In the
end, that radicalism doomed the Democrats in 2024.
In anointing
Biden “The Nominee” during the 2020 primaries, octogenarians Clyburn
and Pelosi looked over Biden’s eroding cognitive abilities. When he
inevitably became a liability to the Democratic cause, they orchestrated
his departure from the ticket for the younger Harris. They also engaged
in incessant “lawfare,” Trump indictments and January-6 investigations.
Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested the Democrats
should have focused “on one or two” charges against Trump, not four, and
the indictments
“will backfire on the Left.” But The Cabal apparently wanted to extend the Trump-tarnishing so that there would be
no trial before the GOP nominating process, thereby giving Republicans little opportunity to nominate someone else.
Prolonging the 1/6 congressional investigation into the 2022 elections
was an effort to tarnish not just Trump, but his supporters. Biden’s
unforgivable September 2022 speech in Philadelphia, when he attacked
“MAGA Republicans” for being disloyal to America, was part and parcel of
this effort
The media covered up the Cabal’s intrigues. Anyone
who watches CNN or MSNBC has seen how Adam Schiff, Jamie Raskin,
Pelosi, Clyburn and other leading Democrats are treated with kid gloves.
The media hated Trump for calling them “fake news” and colluded with
the Democrats nearly every step of the way.
It’s unlikely that
Symone Sanders-Townsend will come clean on all of this, though our
nation would benefit greatly from the disinfecting sunshine she could
provide. Regardless, it seems highly unlikely that the Democrats can
change their stripes, because their base and big donors have gone
Loony-Left.
The Cabal probably thought throwing all those
indictments and civil penalties at Trump would make him crack and cop a
plea with the prosecutors. But Trump had the money and backbone to slug
it out. He also had excellent lawyers, who mucked up the lawfare wheels.
Essentially, he ran the clock out on the Democrats.
There’s a
lesson here about being “overzealous” in politics. Jerome Lawrence
coauthored the 1955 play (and 1960 film) “Inherit the Wind,” which
examined extremism in “the Scopes monkey trial,” as a metaphor for the
McCarthy investigations. Lawrence wrote: “Is it possible to be
overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save – so that nothing is
left but emptiness?”
With Trump wining a near landslide
despite the criminal cases – and taking the Congress – it seems all the
Democrat orchestrations left them nothing but emptiness.
Ken
Reid has been a journalist covering Congress and the federal health
agencies since 1986. He served in local elected office in Loudoun
County, VA (2006 to 2017), has been involved in Trump campaigns in
Virginia since 2016, and has written for the Federalist and American
Thinker.
