What’s the Biden Move Now?

BUCK: Clay, this is another part of our whole, “What does it look like this year?” This is turning into an all-out political battle as we know, right? The last year was really Biden Year One, covid, “coming out of the ditch,” to borrow from remember the Obama line, “The economy got driven into a ditch”? Well, covid got driven into a ditch. From the Obama era, that was the line and now Year Two is gonna be the referendum and the big political fight.

Part of the messaging will be that the parents are gonna be able to go forward now, gonna go out there and not only have their voices heard. We’ve been putting parents, just everyday, folks, on this show, even, on the issue of masks and schools. But when they decide to mobilize, they could be a major force, a Tea Party-like movement when it comes to their views not just on masking.

But on CRT and just the overall need to put children first in a system, the school system nationally that’s supposed to be all about them. And part of this was I find fascinating is, Clay, this is another area, what is the Biden move? We were just talking before, what’s the Biden move? The Biden move can’t be, “Shut up, parents, I’m gonna put you on a terror watch list.”

They tried that, and it didn’t go very well. So what is the counter-messaging to this movement right now that doesn’t sound like Biden is effectively owned by the teachers unions and wants to have kids learning CRT and, you know, “Shut up and go away, parents”? That’s not gonna go well for them.

CLAY: Yeah. Look, when we went and I saw the crowd, when I spoke in August, I called you right after at the school board, and I said, “This is the start of the Mom Revolution,” right? If you went back and listened to our show from August of last year, you could feel the energy that was likely to power Glenn Youngkin through. I said, “Look, they’re gonna be caricatured, all these moms and dads who were opposed to masks who are looting data and looking at the science at redneck, idiot Trump voters.”

But the reality was many of these parents are among the best educated out there, and they’re actually looking at the data, and they’re not sheep who were following the argument. So I think what Joe Biden is going to try to run on — this is my bet in 2022 for the midterms. The Democrats, they’re gonna try to use abortion, right?

Because we know we have the Supreme Court case that is coming down at some point in the summer, and they’re gonna try to terrify suburban women using abortion as a cudgel. We’ll see whether or not that works. I think we are already seeing, Buck, they’re gonna try to co-opt the mask argument by pretending that this has been their argument all along and that they followed the science, and it’s now safe to not have masks.

Even though everyone out there who is smart has been looking at the data and they’re saying, “Nothing has changing; this is a lie.” They’ll try to argue we ended covid, right, they’re gonna say we ended covid by relying on the science and Dr. Fauci. They’ll lie, right? That’s gonna be an argument. They’ll try to play the racism card, depending on how exactly the Supreme Court nomination goes of whoever the black woman is.

And, as you just pointed out as we went to break, they’re gonna continue to argue that January 6th was an insurrection and that white supremacists are trying to overthrow the election by not letting minority voters go to the polls. That is going to be, I believe, their entire argument for the midterms.

BUCK: Biden right now as we speak here and everyone’s listening and hanging out with us across the country… Biden right now is addressing the nation. It’s being carried on CNN on health care costs. You know what he’s really doing, folks? Now they’re gonna go back to this issue, ’cause they thought this did very well for them in the 2018 election, the health care issue.

Republicans were asleep at the wheel on this one, did not do well on that, and that was part of the way the Democrats did well in the House races in 2018. So they’re going to this. But it just goes to the issue we’re talking about before about inflation and the debt. They’re just trying to bribe people with other people’s money. They’re just looking for ways to move dollars around.

They’re not improving competition. They’re not improving actual delivery of health care or anything like that. It’s just what subsidizes can we direct in what ways that hides the overall cost to the American people and that is effectively redistribution of wealth through the health care system? That’s why when you talk about health care costs, bringing it down.

It just means squeezing the balloon the one end, so the balloon gets bigger at the other. That’s all they’re really doing, but this is what they’re gonna do, Clay? Stuff like this. They’re gonna try to buy off just enough voters with what they say is the money of other people but is often, of course, just the American people’s money overall.

CLAY: It’s an ugly truth, but when the facts aren’t on your side you play to emotion, and we know the facts are not gonna be on the Democrats’ side on inflation, on school masking, on covid response in general, on murder, on defund the police. On all of these issues, they are fundamentally failing, and the facts are straightforward, transparent. They can’t win on them, and so they’re going to try to run on emotion: “All those awful redneck white supremacists who don’t want minorities to vote, you have to stand up to them or else the country falls apart.”

BUCK: I do think the pivot here to the health care that Biden was speaking on this right now, Clay, is exact… It’s almost like they’re listening to the show and they’re like, “Wait, we gotta come up with an issue. We gotta come up with a pitch,” you know? Because they gotta go with something, and it can’t be crime, the border, covid, all these things. They’ll try on covid, but it’s laughable.