“Chaos is our friend” -Says Close Trump Campaign Ally
The Democrats' Biden Mutiny Helps Trump's Campaign Bigly!
The Five Mutineers. ChatGPT-DALL-E prompted image by RJREI
In news reporting this weekend a fifth Democratic House Representative publicly called for President Biden to not be the candidate for the Office of the President of the United States of America in the upcoming 2024 National Elections. The five representatives are Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Tx., Rep. Seth Moulton, D-MA., Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Il., and Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Az.
My immediate first observation about the five mutineers against President Biden is that three of the five representatives are Centrist Democrats (New Democrats). I will not attempt to second guess their various individual reasoning’s, for breaking with the Democratic Party Leader, something that they seem to be forgetting curiously enough seemingly rejecting the fact that he is currently still and will continue to be the party leader until the next Presidential inauguration ceremony on January 20, 2025.
From my perspective they and any other Democratic Party member who is calling for President Biden to not be the candidate in the contest battle for control of the White House against candidate convict-Trump, who may very well be in jail at the end of September and be unable to actually fulfill any of the duties of an American Presidency, is displaying a phenomenal hubris of idiocy.
As can be seen in a news report found at the Heritage Foundation’s in-house multimedia news platform The Daily Signal the matter of convict-Trump going to jail to serve time is a closely watched situation.
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Five mental health professionals, some of whom already accused Donald Trump of being “dangerous,” prepared a risk assessment for New York state Judge Juan Merchan to consider in his July 11 sentencing decision on Trump, according to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee, a longtime critic of the former president.
It isn’t clear whether all five are psychiatrists or may have other training. Their risk assessment could be a factor in the severity of Merchan’s sentence for Trump in Manhattan Criminal Court, which could be up to 20 years in prison for all 34 felony counts on which he was convicted last month.
Lee edited the book “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President,” first released in 2017. In May, she published a new book titled “The Psychology of Trump Contagion: An Existential Threat to American Democracy and All Humankind.”1
In the news piece quoted above Dr. Bandy X. Lee answers a few questions in response to the report; some selected quotes are presented here below for your reading pleasure:
Lee, who has taught at Yale, Columbia, and Harvard, also opposed recent calls from some Republican members of Congress to invoke the 25th Amendment for Biden, which would allow for his temporary removal by Vice President Kamala Harris and the Cabinet.
“The reason why so many people see problems with Joe Biden is that Donald Trump is projecting his mental symptoms on to Joe Biden so he can deny his own symptoms,” Lee told The Daily Signal, reflecting on the debate between the incumbent Democrat and his Republican opponent.
“There is a huge difference between being unfit and someone who does not present very well,” she said. “Joe Biden’s presentation makes people lose confidence in him. That’s not at all equal to danger or unfitness.”
During the debate, Trump noted that he had taken two cognitive tests, and that Biden hadn’t. Such a test only proves someone doesn’t belong in a nursing home, Lee said.
As for Thursday night’s Biden-Trump debate, Lee argued that it never should have happened—and not because of Biden. “I would have recommended that a debate not be held,” she said. “Why elevate to a level of normalcy someone who is not normal like Donald Trump?”2
For all intents and purposes whether knowingly or unknowingly the five mutineers and the supposed chorus of anonymous Biden detractors are publicly declaring that they have no confidence in President Biden; now is absolutely not the time to be creating large scale public distrust in the President of the USA, and by extension the Office of the Presidency, in doing so such doubts and open ended questions about President Biden’s fitness only serve to feed into the MAGA conservative narrative and add to the chaos, confusion, and internal conflict within the Democratic Party which ultimately weakens the whole community of Anti-Trump voters, all of whom should be coalescing around and uplifting the Biden-Harris Team Ticket as the pair of experienced politicians that they are, most especially in the light of the fact that all campaign work to date along with all the funding that has been raised is already collected together for the purpose of keeping control of the next White House Administration, and can only be used by either Biden or Harris, any other potential replacement candidate will fail to secure a National Election win at this point in time for any number of reasons, not least of which is that no one else currently has a war chest of money to use for campaigning nor is it possible at this point in time to realistically get any new names, any of which will most definitely not have the name or political brand recognition factor that is so vitally important at this point in time and unquestionably needed in order to win this upcoming all too important history changing election.
Please just let us all work together to elect Biden-Harris into office, after that the democratic Party can focus on creating a bridge for Vice President Harris to succeed into the oval office, presumably after the new 119th Congress is seated, hopefully with a Democratic Party super-majority in both houses; this last point is especially important because any succession that might conceivably take place during the current 118th Congress will result in MAGA Mike Johnson potentially succeeding into the office of the Vice Presidency which would be a disastrous situation, to say the least.
So then not only have the five mutineers chosen to single themselves out as idiots, that is to say in the truest and oldest meaning of the word—wander around in the wilderness surrounding the city that is the democratic party, thinking that their own ways of thinking are correct and true and should be applied to the center of the city, as if idiots are to be followed into the wilderness simply because they speak their own heresies.
Still though why are they letting one ninety-minute debate truncated beauty pageant wipe out three and a half years of work? Perhaps, like so many other people, their perspectives and views and expectations of Democracy have devolved into a modern day ““theaterocracy,“ with the vulgar hordes gawping at professional politicians on the stage and voting for the ones who produce the prettiest speeches and the juiciest promises.”3
Or perhaps it has something to do with a centrist Democratic think tank known as Third Way4 which is creating its own version of a “talent bank” (the “Moderate Power Project”5) that mirrors the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 conservatives-only-need-apply linked in style listing which is ultimately the central purpose of the goals and objectives of the Heritage foundation’s “Mandate for Leadership” which is the original title-form of what is now known as “Project 2025”.
Instead of publishing a new bunch of white papers full of centrist policy proposals, it’s launching a “talent bank” aimed at stocking a second Biden administration, or some other future Democratic government, with well vetted political hires who fit Third Way’s moderate brand.6
Attempting to create a diversified administration to counteract a loyalist administration is certainly a worthwhile effort, however though—this particular election cycle is quite simply not the time to try correcting what Third Way proponents see as a problem with the current Democratic administration.
during the Biden years, a frequent refrain from disaffected centrists is that, however mainstream the 46th president’s instincts may be, the agencies of his government (and the workplaces of Democratic pols and policy groups) are chockablock with overly strident post-collegiate types who have allegedly spoiled his party’s reputation with normies.7
No matter whatever the motivations and reasoning behind the current crop of Biden detractors might be, and yes it would do well to remember that the five mutineers not only have their expressed reasons for breaking with President Biden, but also that they have motives. Decisions such as have been made to call upon President Biden to ‘step aside you are too old to do this’ are driven first and foremost, as nearly every single decision ever made in the history of humankind, by motivations for whatever changes might be created by such decisions.
Perhaps these mutinous representatives need to be reminded that the last time an incumbent President chose not to run for election was President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968. His Vice President at that time was Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.. The decision by Johnson to not run for office created a schism within the Democratic party. The Democratic Convention that year was marred by intense divisions among the convention attendees and at the end of the convention an intensely divided party elected Humphrey who selected the little known Edmund Muskie of Maine to be his running mate. The ultimate result of the Democratic Party’s infighting was losing the 1968 National Election to Richard M. Nixon.
My question then with this piece of sordid history in view is does the current Democratic party really want to repeat the disastrous results of the 1968 convention?
“Chaos is our friend” -close Trump Ally
Engaging in this public infighting plays perfectly into the MAGA playbook which relies ultimately on chaos and confusion. The single greatest strength of the Democratic Party is its ability to present a cohesive unity that allows them to actually do the work of governance, as opposed to the Republican-MAGA Party which has a proven track record of disunity and a clear and obvious inability to actually do the work of governance. This particular point is excellently discussed by Jerry Taylor of the Niskanen Center, in a brief article that I have reprinted here on Substack in one of my previous postings that can be found at the following webpage:
THE REPUBLICAN IDEOLOGICAL BREAKDOWN
To further emphasize the dangers of this public infighting, especially as it is focused on replacing President Joe Biden’s name on any ballots that will be used during the upcoming election, it is imperative that all the individuals who are clamoring for Biden to be removed from the ballot should be made aware of the fact that the MAGA-sphere has already prior to the so-called debate been preparing to challenge any changes to the election process made by the Democratic party, namely they are preparing to challenge name removals from voting ballots in states that are at this time conducive to such legal challenges. As can be seen in the following reporting that was published prior to the debate night on June 25, 2024:
If Democrats seek to swap out President Joe Biden for another candidate on the Nov. 5 ballot, they’ll face legal challenges, according to an analysis by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.
That’s because a patchwork of state laws determines what a political party must do to substitute someone else as a presidential nominee.
“If there is a freezing moment or something very consequential that happens at the debate, the likelihood goes up,” Mike Howell, executive director of the Oversight Project, told reporters Tuesday.8
Well as everyone now knows there was “a freezing moment” and so now the creators of Project 2025 stand poised to inject chaos and confusion into the remainder of the election cycle and immediately afterwards with as much legal action as possible. They do not necessarily need to win any of their lawsuits, no, they just want to destroy the legitimacy of the election process in order to be able to steal control of the White House by any means whether fair or foul, as can be seen in the following statements:
If delegates to the Democratic National Convention were to nominate another candidate for president in August, it might not affect relevant state laws, said Sam Dewey, counsel for Heritage’s Oversight Project.
“There are two separate questions. One is who gets the party’s nomination. The second is ballot access,” Dewey told reporters. “You can be nominated by a party and not necessarily have access to a ballot. We are seeing that right now with attempts by the DNC to keep Robert Kennedy, RFK Jr., off the ballot. It’s separate. Just being nominated by a party doesn’t get you on a ballot.”
Dewey continued:
Even if at the convention, superdelegates and a bunch of [other] delegates get together and said, ‘We’re not doing this, we’re subbing in the vice president [for Biden], we’re subbing in Hillary Clinton,’ pick whomever, that wouldn’t at all speak to what [our] memo was addressing, which was access to ballots. That’s an entirely different question. If someone drops out, that frequently is litigated.9
This particular MAGA strategy has now been being propagated throughout the MAGA-sphere and is doing its poisonous job of infecting the minds of by and largely average voters who have unfortunately come under the influence of MAGA deviousness and propagandization.
While Biden campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt has denied reports that Biden is planning to drop out of the race, the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation has pointed to several legal challenges Democrats could face in vital states.
"We are monitoring the calls from across the country for President Biden to step aside, either now or before the election, and have concluded that the process for substitution and withdrawal is very complicated," Heritage Foundation Oversight Project Executive Director Mike Howell said in a statement. "We will remain vigilant that appropriate election integrity procedures are followed."
The Heritage Foundation has identified Georgia, Wisconsin, and Nevada as states where Democrats could face legal challenges if they pursue replacing Biden.10
A good example of reporting that touches upon how the Democratic infighting has benefited the Trump campaign can be found at the following CNN report published July 4, 2024:
For much of the past year, Donald Trump and his allies have speculated that Joe Biden would not end up as the Democratic presidential nominee – suggesting without evidence that he would step down before the convention and be replaced by another candidate.
Now, with Biden facing an increasingly uncertain political future amid the fallout from his shaky debate performance, Republicans are trying to determine what the Democratic incumbent stepping aside would actually mean for the Trump campaign. And some believe the path back to the White House would likely be easier with Biden at the top of the ticket.
Trump and his allies have relished the extended spotlight on Biden this week, with the former president making the rare decision to lay low at his New Jersey club and allow Biden to be the story. Trump has no public events on his schedule, and his campaign surprised some aides and advisers by telling them to enjoy the Fourth of July holiday.
“Chaos is our friend,” a person close to Trump said.
Meanwhile, campaign advisers and key allies have been calling reporters and friendly Democrats, hunting for any clues into what might happen next should Biden ultimately walk away from his reelection bid.11
I do not know about anyone else, but I myself am very curious to know just who exactly do the Trump “campaign advisors and key allies” consider to be “friendly Democrats.”
Some reporting from Rolling Stone Magazine clearly drives home my point of contention that the ultimate objective of the Project 2025 MAGA-sphere network is chaos and confusion:
In a June 21 memo, the Heritage Foundation astutely predicted that Democrats might wish to force out Biden “if he freezes at [the] debate.” Noting that “the mechanisms for replacing him on ballots vary by state,” the memo says: “There is the potential for pre-election litigation in some states that would make the process difficult and perhaps unsuccessful.”12
The strategy outlined briefly above is one that has clearly been in the works for long before the news report’s memo publication date of June 21. All anyone has to do is remember what it was like during the immediate period of time following the 2020 election where news cycles were dominated for months on end with Republican-MAGA election legal challenges. American citizens quite simply do not need to undergo a repeat of such disingenuous, discouraging, and deceitful efforts to supplant our free liberal Democracy with a captive illiberal pseudo-democracy.
Chaos and confusion is the name of the game and is something at which MAGA Republicans EXCELL!
Craig Holman, a governmental ethics lobbyist at Public Citizen, says that “the Heritage Foundation is trying to create a quagmire where none really exists.” He adds, “They’re just trying to muck up the process. I have no doubt they will file lawsuits if this does indeed happen, but I would expect the lawsuits to be very promptly dismissed.”
A senior source involved with Donald Trump’s 2024 effort to win the presidency and another person working with the Heritage-based Project 2025 (the conservative policy agenda project) tell Rolling Stone that the point of these legal attack plans and potential blitz of challenges isn’t necessarily to win.
A key point, the sources say, would be to weigh down the Democratic nominee, the national party, and their legal and political allies in as many unique court battles and sideshows as possible — so that the Democratic Party would have to waste resources and time on those matters when liberals would want to be laser-focused on, say, the battleground states that will likely decide whether Trump returns to power.
“Team Biden — or Team whoever — is going to be getting hit on all sides between now and Election Day,” the first source says. “Every legal and political weapon is on the table.” Still, the sources add, they do generally feel more confident in their legal theories than in the past, since Trump stacked the judiciary with right-wing jurists.13
It is more than worthwhile to keep on repeating the simple truth of what it means to attempt to force President Biden to relinquish his position as the Democratic Party’s Leader and from a personal character perspective as The genuinely honest, honorable, experienced, and committed Presidential Candidate that he continues to remain in spite of American people, politicians, and pundits love affair with theaterocracy.
In closing, I would like to point out that recent observations and reporting are taking note of the fact that the general public is becoming significantly aware enough of Project 2025 to the point where Trump posted another lie on his Truth Social network, which is that he knew nothing about project 2025, when in fact of course he knows perfectly well what it is, after all he was considering hiring Kevin D. Roberts the president of the Heritage Foundation to be his Chief of Staff if he managed to steal his way into the White House.
What is most certainly imperative now is for everyone who is in this battle against the conservative Christian nationalist attempt to take over the governance of the USA for the purposes of reconstructing America into a barren dystopian open prison that is subjected to the whims and distorted ideologies of deity-centered ancient scraps of writing that religious adherents insist contain the commands and wishes of some figment of ancient people’s imaginations, whether the deity’s appellation is Jesus, Yahweh, Allah, Thor, or Odin; is to tie the anti-abortion movement directly to Project 2025, especially given the fact that out of the now 110 advisory board members to the Project 2025 effort many of the members are focused solely on Abortion, the number one antagonist being the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America organization which is one of the original 21 organizations to first sign onto Project 2025 as an advisory board member. If you have not taken the time to look into just how extensive is the Project 2025 network of organizations the following link will lead you to the official project 2025 listing of all 110 organization. Project 2025 Advisory Board Members
If you learned anything new or of interest to you or if you think someone you know whether it be an individual or a larger audience might benefit from reading my writings, then please take the time to cross-post, restack, or share this essay or any of my other writings. The more people know about what is happening with our Democracy the better are our chances of defending our freedoms and civil rights against the scourge and destitution of the MAGA-Republican movement and its defacto dictator convict-Trump.
Thank you for reading.
Robert J. Rei, Fall River, MA, July 7, 2024
“Our current ‘state’ is the dictatorship of evil. We know that already, I hear you object, and we don’t need you to reproach us for it yet again. But, I ask you, if you know that, then why don’t you act? Why do you tolerate these rulers gradually robbing you, in public and in private, of one right after another, until one day nothing, absolutely nothing, remains but the machinery of the state, under the command of criminals and drunkards?”
Sophie Scholl
EXCLUSIVE: Judge in Trump’s Manhattan Trials Reviews Risk Assessment by Anti-Trump Psychiatrist, Fred Lucas, June 28, 2024, The Daily Signal (The Daily Signal as a Heritage Foundation multimedia news platform most definitely serves as a topic of interest when it comes to developing an understanding of far-right conservative messaging efforts and the online echo chambers that are created and sustained for the objectives and purposes of movement-conservatism’s cold civil war agendas, goals, and plans.) https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/28/exclusive-therapists-who-called-trump-dangerous-make-sentencing-suggestions-to-new-york-judge/
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The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State, John Micklethwait & Adrian Woolridge, 2014, The Penguin Press, New York, NY, Page 250
Centrists Are Cooking Up a Project 2025 of Their Own — And Progressives Won’t Like It: MAGA types aren’t the only ones with a “Project 2025.”, Michael Schaffer, June 28, 2024, Politico Magazine, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/06/28/fight-next-biden-administration-00165366
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Can Democrats Legally Swap Biden Out for Another Candidate?, Fred Lucas, June 25, 2024, The Daily Signal, https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/25/if-democrats-want-to-drop-biden-they-might-have-to-contend-with-these-state-laws/
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Three swing states where replacing Biden could be met with legal hurdles, Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner, (the Washingtom Examiner is a solidly conservative mainstream newspaper), July 1, 2024 (updated July 2, 2024), The Denver Gazette, https://gazette.com/three-swing-states-where-replacing-biden-could-be-met-with-legal-hurdles/article_09481e76-fd56-5e52-aace-b50e33ee5a17.html
‘Chaos is our friend.’ How Trump is quietly planning around Biden’s uncertain future, Steve Contorno, Kristen Holmes and Alayna Treene, July 4, 2024, CNN, https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/politics/trump-campaign-plans-biden-debate/index.html
Mucking It Up, Right-Wingers Plan to Make it Difficult for Democrats to Replace Biden: Experts are skeptical the Heritage Foundation can actually keep Democrats from choosing a new presidential nominee — but that may not be the point, Andrew Perez, and Asawin Suebsaeng, July 4, 2024, Rolling Stone, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/heritage-foundation-biden-replace-1235053325/
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We have a system inplace called the VICE President. So, I have confidence in that system.
Interesting that a malignant narcissistic sociopath-that is what Trump has displayed has nor brought a VP choice public. No room for another "personality " or is the decision up to those that want a Project 2025 in place and will select that candidate? We are in a perilous perilous position like the 40s but in a different array of surcomstance. Now, instead of "nazis" outside of our government the call" is inside the house as the B-movie suggested.
Robert, Thank you for following and reporting on the various factions of democracy’s enemies. I have not previously seen any reporting on the NY case mental health assessment or the Heritage Foundation’s media branch, the latter of which is amazingly open in discussing their intentions.
It amazes me that others in the media and in the Democratic Party don’t see what’s so obvious, the details of which are the subject of your essay. Sowing chaos is a classic Republican Party and Convicted Felon DT strategy as is projection. MSM has bought off on it hook, line, and sinker. Similar to the legal, financial, funding and ballot problems of switching a presidential candidate this late in the process. Democrats are classic for opening mouths first as they rush to form the circular firing squad and engaging brain second.