âTodayâs ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits. These amount to a social canon of judgments about good and evil, complete with secular sacred history, sins (against minorities and the environment), and saints. Using the right words and avoiding the wrong ones when referring to such matters â speaking the âinâ language â serves as a badge of identity.â âAngelo Codevilla (2010)
In the last couple of weeks, in the form of the controversy about whether or not presumptive First Lady Jill Biden should be addressed as âDr.,â the utter fraudulence of credentialism has taken center stage. As
Thomas Gallatin
When it comes to his son Hunter, Joe Biden will see and hear no evil. This reality was once again driven home last week with Bidenâs insistence regarding the criminal investigation into his son: âI have, we have, great confidence in our son. Iâm not concerned about any accusations that have been made against him.â Biden then passed off the criminal investigation as âkind of foul play.â
The obvious issue for the Trump administration is whether it can truly trust that Biden would remain uninvolved in the years-long FBI investigation into his sonâs shady business dealings. Bidenâs response anytime the mainstream media has dared to ask about Hunter makes it clear that the answer is a resounding âno.â