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Except In Biden’s Dem World… Conservative Political Successes Keep Popping Up With Countries’ Voters

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By DEXTER DUGGAN

New conservative faces and/or power in politics seem to be popping up in country after country — sometimes “surprisingly,” we’re told — while in the U.S. the only supposedly acceptable “liberal” Democrat for four more years as president looks like he might not be able to last through 2024.
As this was written on August 16, the latest “surprising” conservative electoral victor is Argentinian presidential primary winner Javier Milei. Among his beliefs, Milei is described as being pro-life, favoring “life, liberty and property,” gun ownership and Donald Trump — while rejecting theoretical “climate change.” On this basis, he sounds rather like an Argentinian Rand Paul.
However, in line with what are said to be Milei’s libertarian beliefs, he is said to defend “gay marriage” and legalization of drug use.
A little before Milei, the “third party” Alternative for Germany political party was said to be increasing in support among that nation’s voters, and of course Italy’s conservative Giorgia Meloni, known for her pro-life and pro-family views and being an admirer of the U.S. Republican Party, rose over the horizon to become the first female prime minister of the “Big Boot.”
Meloni, like other European conservative leaders, reflexively was described falsely by her foes as favoring fascism — the routine default accusation by leftists, just as U.S. leftists automatically espy Klannish racism in their opponents.
Before champions like Trump and Meloni, there were important figures including Britain’s Nigel Farage — who helped lead the successful Brexit movement, which the establishment despised, to cast off choking European Union regulations — and Hungarian President Victor Orban.
Leftists seem to have trouble discerning the fact that as they shove ever-harder to the left around the world — the world, you know, that place for aggressive secular “globalism” — ordinary people recoil from this callous glob and look for conservatives still willing to champion their cause.
It was beginning to look as if perhaps the remaining chance for a strong conservative to gain power was to be the unexpected, “surprise” winner — like the Argentinian primary’s Milei.
Donald Trump’s “surprise” win over callous globalist Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016 set in motion massive forces to remove Trump from office permanently lest he hinder globalist suppression of any effective opposition.
The popular conservative Brazilian president, outsider and Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro suffered much the same fate — “losing” reelection in suspicious circumstances in 2022 to a strong left-winger and then being impeded from running again.
How much of a mirror image does this June 30, 2023, Associated Press story sound? “Far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was barred Friday from running for office again until 2030 after a panel of judges concluded that he abused his power and cast unfounded doubts on the country’s electronic voting system. The decision upends the 68-year-old’s political future and likely erases any chance for him to regain power.”
How super-convenient for the globalists. How totally transparent of the contempt the global establishment holds for citizens it thinks it can shove around as fools.
A person might think of the strong conservative triumphs that were anticipated for the U.S. Republican Party in November 2022 — and, more recently, for conservatives in a Spain governed by inept radical leftist Pedro Sanchez, leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party — that inexplicably seemed to have lost their steam.
People have seen more than enough in recent elections to make them suspicious of claimed defeats for conservatives — and victories by leftists who benefit from an alliance with well-positioned technocrats and corporatists.
Regarding Milei, the liberal Madrid newspaper El Pais posted on August 15: “The basis of the economic model that Milei proposes for Argentina is the reduction of the state to its minimum expression, the only way, he says, to reduce political spending and the fiscal deficit. If politicians are a ‘parasitic and corrupt caste,’ it is in the state where they do their dirty business and steal money ‘from the citizen.’
“The candidate has already announced that, if he wins, he will eliminate the ministries of Education, Health and Social Development, the ‘black boxes’ that politicians use to enrich themselves,” El Pais’ article said.
Milei’s reasoning about abortion, as reported by the Madrid newspaper, sounded very much like U.S. pro-lifers’ — that if you don’t have the right to life, you can’t enjoy any other right.
“If you go against life there is no property or freedom that counts,” his thinking was described. “And human life starts from conception. It’s a math problem: life is a continuum with two discrete leaps: conception and death. In what week is the abortion correct? 14 weeks? 14 weeks minus one second you have no rights and 14 weeks and a second do you have rights?
“The woman can choose about her body, but what she has inside the womb is not her body, and abortion violates the principle of non-aggression,” Milei was quoted.
Meanwhile, in the U.S. the increasingly ideological and isolated national Democratic Party lost well-known figures like Kyrsten Sinema and Tulsi Gabbard, while West Virginia U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin was reported as seriously considering leaving.
Sometimes their motives may have been influenced by self-interest, but that still illustrated how repugnant the party had grown, outside of upper-establishment and dominant-media circles.
It would be easy to understand how Manchin doubted he could be elected again in increasingly conservative-Republican West Virginia if he remained as a member of radical leftist Joe Biden’s party.
Moreover, the sub-headline for an article posted August 9 at Politico about state-level switches said, “Five state lawmakers traded in their Democratic credentials for the GOP this session.” The article noted: “Since 1994, 173 state lawmakers have switched parties: 83 of those were Democrats who became Republicans, while just 23 Republicans became Democrats.”
An opinion column posted August 16 at The Hill political-news site noted that the Democratic Party, so well-known for describing itself as the defender of democracy and the party of “choice” for permissive abortion and sex changes, wants no choices at all in the selection of its presidential candidate for 2024.
In addition to the fact that in recent weeks Biden, who already has spent so much time away from the White House for relaxation (or, actually, often for secret medical treatments to keep his elderly frame going), has become a downright vacationing beach bum in Delaware in August, and announced more vacation time scheduled at ritzy Lake Tahoe.
Even though the politician the party wants, incumbent Joe Biden, is a massive daily embarrassment for his dementia, lies, bribe-taking and physical frailty. And the U.S. is only one Biden gaffe away from his starting nuclear war by blabbing some incoherency to his military.
The Hill article, by podcaster Derek Hunter, a former staffer for a Republican U.S. senator, said, “At the moment, Democrats are working diligently to prevent even the possibility of a choice in the 2024 election. They are terrified of a third-party run by anyone who might siphon support away from President Joe Biden in the general election next year.
“Biden is wildly unpopular’,“ Hunter added, “both as a leader and for the policies he has advanced during his first term. Despite being billed as a ‘moderate,’ Biden swung wildly to the left on nearly every issue after he took office.”
Well, why not let a veteran liberal Democrat like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., of the famed Kennedy family, who announced his presidential candidacy in liberal stronghold Boston earlier this year, simply succeed Biden and give the Democratic Party a candidate it doesn’t have to be absolutely ashamed of?
True, Kennedy made his name in recent years as a strong skeptic of vaccine lockdowns and mandates. But that showed not only wisdom but also courage, even though it opposed a disastrous Democrat mania.
Is it better to continue to insist on looking wrong and stupid, or insightful and correct?
On the other hand, conservative political strategist Byron York at the Washington Examiner believes that Democrats think Biden is certain to be the party’s presidential nominee in 2024, and thus any challenge allowed against Biden now would weaken him against putative GOP opponent Donald Trump.

Kennedy’s Slide

York posted at the Examiner on August 11: “Kennedy’s highest level of support was 20 percent, in late April. Then, in late May, it slipped to 16.8 percent, a substantial drop in the course of a couple of days. By June 22, it fell to 14 percent and has hovered around that level ever since.
“It is now at 13.6 percent,” York said. “In all, Kennedy’s support has dropped by about a third since his campaign began to attract significant public attention. That is not the mark of campaign momentum.
“Kennedy’s slide probably reflects a deep fear among Democrats that even a protest challenge to Biden could damage the president’s fragile support,” York continued. “Yes, Biden has a huge lead, 63 points, over Kennedy in the Democratic race. (Another candidate, Marianne Williamson, has 6 percent support.) But polls of head-to-head matchups between Biden and Trump look terribly risky for the current president.”
Also, Kennedy certainly didn’t strengthen his hand recently as an alternative to Biden in the Democratic Party for those pro-lifers who have held their noses and remained in that party.
Early in his campaign, Kennedy tried to sound respectful to those on both sides of the abortion issue. The question remained about which side of the issue would get his action if he were elected. Still, a candidate sounded better who didn’t daily promote abortion as a fundamental right.
However, Kennedy seemed absolutely unprepared when he was asked a question at the Iowa State Fair about a limited position against permissive abortion later in pregnancy that he had expressed. If he didn’t foresee having to develop a response to this, one might wonder how much he had thought about the issue lately.
NBC News posted a video that Politico picked up and reported on August 14 showing Kennedy looking clearly uncomfortable and uncertain when pressed on limits for later abortions. Although he referred to the “child,” Kennedy soon sounded as if the child loses her value as soon as a major-media reporter expresses the same kind of opposition that Democratic activists are sure to.
This hardly was the same sort of courage that Kennedy had shown against mandatory-vaxx fanatics.
Politico posted: “Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday [August 13] said he would support a federal ban on abortion after the first three months of pregnancy, but his campaign later said he ‘misunderstood’ the question.
“Speaking to NBC from the Iowa State Fair, Kennedy said, ‘I believe a decision to abort a child should be up to the women during the first three months of life,’ but added: ‘Once a child is viable, outside the womb, I think then the state has an interest in protecting the child’,” Politico wrote. “…But his campaign subsequently said Kennedy did not mean to support any federal limits on abortion.”
Before this NBC video was publicized, The Wanderer asked some of its sources about Kennedy’s slide in the polls.
Conservative Republican political consultant Constantin Querard said on August 14: “RFK has an obvious and hard ceiling in support and polling because of his vocal opposition to vaccine mandates and a few other heretical positions, in the eyes of Democrat voters.
“He may go over it by a small margin thanks to Democrat voters sending a message to the White House that they want better,” Querard said, “but Biden will still win the primaries and secure the nomination in easy fashion (barring some major medical setback). Democrats are also fairly certain that Trump will be the GOP nominee and they are perfectly content for a rematch.”

Experts At Cheating

After the NBC video was publicized, The Wanderer asked Querard if he wanted to say anything additional. He replied on August 15: “It feels like he’s having fun, traveling the country, getting to voice his opinions to lots of people, and building a base that he’ll turn into a podcast when all is said and done. But it doesn’t feel like he thinks he has any chance of being president.”
Before the video, Mary Ann Kreitzer, who runs the Virginia-based Catholic blog Les Femmes — The Truth, said on August 14: “RFK JR. will never be supported by the Democrat establishment. He is not on board with the agenda. He calls himself a Democrat, but he is not a modern Democrat with all-out support for insanity which marks today’s party.
“And above all, he opposed the COVID hoax, which was a major feature in their plan to control America,” Kreitzer said. “And so, it makes perfect sense that all the Democrat extremists are willing to go with Biden. They all know he’s a puppet. Who’s the puppet master? Susan Rice? Barack Obama? The Clintons? An oligarchy of global elitists? A coalition of the uniparty? I have no idea.
“But I’m not sure it matters whom the Democrats run, because they are experts at cheating and we will probably see a repeat of the 2020 election,” she said. “I hope people don’t abandon the system because not voting just helps the vote stealers. But we are in big trouble and our republic may be beyond hope.
“Working at the state and local levels seems to me to be our last, best hope! Don’t let the bad guys win a local election for dogcatcher,” Kreitzer said.

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