“When the enemy is making a false movement, we must take good care not to interrupt him,” so said Napoleon at one of the critical junctures of the Battle of Waterloo. Today it is commonly written as: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
With that in mind: what the fuck is Mike Johnson doing?
No, not with his predictable capitulation to the defense industry. That move was obvious as the day is long. What’s more stunning is his bizarre trip to Columbia University on Wednesday, where he squeaked into a microphone, drowned out by cacophonous students chanting – doubtless to their chagrin (and ignorance) – in agreement with Steve Bannon of late: “Mike you suck! Mike you suck!”
Johnson’s completely arbitrary trip to New York is the very definition of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. An issue that was completely at the feet of Joe Biden and the fools in his foreign policy apparatus now appears – at best – as a “uniparty” issue, and at worst, as a scenario where the GOP is running interference for neoconservatism like its 2003.
#NOW Protesters chant "Mike you suck! Mike you suck!" As Speaker Mike Johnson is at Columbia University Encampment to speak to students and the press.
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— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) April 24, 2024
I know what you’re thinking. I’m thinking it too. But the left deserves itself. We should have let them suck on that all summer long. Do I feel sympathy for some students who are getting caught in the crossfire? Sure. But their parents, their benefactors, the college donors, staff, and in many cases these students themselves have turned a blind eye to far-left and Islamist intolerance in the name of… well… tolerance. Why is it yours, my, or Mike Johnson’s job to save them from themselves? Simply speaking: it ain’t.
And what happens when the Columbia University President refuses to resign, as Johnson demanded? The faculty will frame it as defiance against Republicans on Capitol Hill and by proxy (though you and I might know it’s not true), Donald Trump.
In fact, President Trump unveiled his education plan yesterday, which makes it clear that the answer to this isn’t trying to negotiate some pseudo-Middle East peace a few blocks from Central Park. It’s root and branch reform of the way these universities operate in the first instance.
So I ask you again: what the fuck was Mike Johnson doing? When Biden’s White House is under continuous fire from its once-believed “baked-in” voters. To interrupt your enemy when he’s making a false move? The height of narcissism and folly. And dare I suggest, perhaps intentional?
