We’ve been repeatedly told the problem with Trump is that his administration was nonstop chaos — but you have to be an ignoramus or a journalist to believe that political affairs under Biden haven’t become far more chaotic.
At the end of last year, when everyone was still going through the motions of pretending Nikki Haley was running a viable campaign against Trump, I noted she was making, in my humble opinion, the absolute worst argument that could be made against her supposed rival. Some version of the following remark became a fixture in her stump speeches for the next few months until she inevitably dropped out.
“And the truth of it all — and this is another hard truth — I believe President Trump was the right president at the right time. I was proud to serve America in his administration, and I agree with a lot of his policies. But the truth is, rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him,” said Haley. “You know I’m right. Chaos follows him. We have too much division in this country and too many threats around the world to be sitting in chaos once again.”
This was a repulsive and dishonest observation coming from an ostensible Republican. The vast majority of “chaos” surrounding Trump’s presidency came from a never-ending barrage of wildly disingenuous media coverage surrounding manufactured scandals such as the Russia-collusion hoax.
Further, if by some incredible turn of events Haley did somehow become the Republican nominee, the same cabal of media and deep-state operatives that smeared Trump and even accused milquetoast Mitt Romney of being a dog-abusing, gay-bashing felon who gave people cancer would no doubt turn on a dime to “fortify” any presidential election in which Haley was the nominee by lying about her too.
In any event, as news broke that Iran was launching a barrage of missiles at Israel this past weekend, one might reach the conclusion that, yes, presidents who create actual chaos are a bad thing. The problem is that America’s political class has its head so sunk into its posterior, it can’t begin to be honest about what real “chaos” looks like.