Victor Davis Hanson
Are We Reaching an Easter Breaking Point? In San Francisco, a huge crowd assembled to watch gay sex-mockery reenactments at the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s annual “Hunky Jesus” contest. (Would such brave, edgy activists ever welcome thousands for similar public sexual derision of Islamic or Hindu sacraments?).In New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral, anti-Israel/Pro-Hamas loud protestors disrupted Easter services. (Imagine the Biden administration reaction should a pro-Israel demonstration ever disrupt Muslims worshiping in an iconic mosque during Ramadan). Otherwise, Joe Biden continued to have his emphases upside down when on Good Friday he praised "the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans” in commemoration of the annual “Transgender Day of Visibility”—which this year coincides with Easter Sunday, the holiest day in Christianity. All this asymmetry follows the Biden/Obama/Clinton massive, celebrity-fueled fundraising (i.e. $26 million from leftwing elites) event in New York—staged simultaneously with the not so far away funeral services for New York Police Department Officer Jonathan Diller. He was murdered by a violent career felon who should never have been released from confinement, but was due to the post-George Floyd callousness of no-bail release—a funeral that Biden did not attend nor did he call the family of the deceased officer. These exemptions—given the increasingly violent and in-your-face pro-Hamas protests (which will increase given that they seem to be moving Biden steadily away from Israel), the popular sexual mockery of the crucifixion, the idea that Christianity’s holiest day deserves just a so-so sort of commemoration day akin to transgender awareness day, and the notion that raising lots of campaign cash in New York City by schmoozing with politicos and celebs, outweighs a call to a visit to a New York officer’s funeral—are not just bad optics. All this s a reminder that Biden and his puppeteers feel their natural base of support is found among the trans movement, the anti-Israel haters, the anti-Christians, and the critical legal theory crowd that is more concerned with releasing dangerous violent felons than protecting the mostly defunded police. The Biden administration knows that all this is bad politics, and reprehensible in the eyes of most Americans. But then, so is an open border that has seen 10 million illegal aliens cross with impunity (“surging” candidate Biden approvingly called it in 2019). So are over 100 mostly unanswered attacks on U.S. troops in the Middle East. So are EV mandates that will destroy the auto industry and enrage consumers. So are as the DEI indoctrinations that have led to a shortfall of some 40,000 military recruits. But like an addict that knows the downside of his fix is outweighed by his weakness in resisting his drug, so Biden and Democrats continue to pander to a small, loud constituency they fear far more than the mostly up to now easy-going American public. Yet at some point in the immediate future, Biden and his controllers will go too far and we will reach an October 1980-like moment, when quietly the American public shrugged—concluding at last that they finally could take no more of Carterism, and in a few weeks shouted so at the polls in landslide fashion. So all this madness is a never-ending gift to Donald Trump—if Reagan-like he can just stay on his traditionalist message, hammer away on his anti-Biden agenda, and not get sidelined (photos of Biden hogtied in a pickup truck) by descending into tit-for-tat distractions with the desperate Left.
