Joe Biden styled himself as a “bridge” president. He didn’t know that a U-turn sign directed all back to where they started. Call him “The Bridge to Nowhere.” Call his “The Newhart Presidency.” Recall how Newhart ended in 1990? Bob Newhart waking up in his Bob Newhart Show bedroom next to Suzanne Pleshette and recognizing that the 1980s sitcom he had just starred in was all a dream from the reality of the previous 1970s show. We all wake up from the Biden presidency returning to the Trump presidency. That doesn’t mean it did not happen. It just means voters (even, presumably, Newhart’s three Vermont woodsmen) wished that it hadn’t. Biden meant to hand the baton to a younger Democrat. He instead did the most Joe Biden thing imaginable: he handed it off to the other team. The 45th president became the 47th president because the 46th allowed America to become Venezuela, here and there, in an effort to prevent that. Beyond attempting to transform the dollar into the bolivar and importing a cast of thousands from Caracas, Biden embraced a banana-republic legal system in pushing a series of politicized cases against his rival that, if entirely successful, would have sent Trump to prison for 717.5 years. (Who says Democrats aren’t tough on crime?) The post-presidency impeachment, the Mar-a-Lago raid, the mug shot, the bankrupting civil cases, the efforts to remove Trump from state ballots, and the assassination attempts that sprang from the same hateful source boomeranged into making Trump a more sympathetic figure and trauma-bonding swaths of America with him. Similarly, one could predict the result of Democrats using the Justice Department as a party auxiliary to obtain FISA warrants through fraudulent means to spy on the Trump campaign in 2016, and then using it as a brickbat to kneecap the Trump administration through a negative public relations campaign masked as an investigation into a hoax created by the Hillary Clinton campaign that Russia collaborated with Trump to elect him president. The result is Attorney General Matt Gaetz. The same goes for leftists, who continue to tell horror stories of the CIA in Guatemala, Chile, and Iran, eagerly weaponizing intelligence agencies against America’s real enemies: Republicans. When a who’s-who of American intelligence lies about the origins of the Hunter Biden laptop — Russians, again! — then the victim of this skullduggery will naturally look to clean house. Enter Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence. The usurpation of our constitutional republic by the Medical Industrial Complex — banning landlords by edict from raising rents here, arresting a paddleboarder for enjoying the ocean there — strikes as the only match in recent years for the corruption of the Department of Justice and the intelligence apparatus (remember Peter Strzok’s “insurance policy,” John Brennan’s pleading ignorance of the Steele Dossier’s origins before Congress, Kevin Clinesmith’s falsifying Carter Page information on a warrant, and FBI Director James Comey’s leaking memos to discredit the president he served, etc.?). If Gaetz for attorney general and Gabbard for DNI, then it follows Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of health and human services — or some medical bureaucracy. Gaetz and Gabbard boast scars that incentivize them to clean up their respective bailiwicks. The Justice Department attainted Gaetz with scandalous accusations without ever charging him let alone securing a conviction. Hillary Clinton implied that Gabbard, an Army officer since 2003, served as a “Russian asset,” Adam Kinzinger called her a “Russian spy,” and Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer, claimed that she “cozies up to dictators like Bashar-al Assad and Vladimir Putin.” Drain the swamp, indeed. When you lie, cheat, and steal, it generally does not advance in life — at least in the long term. People punish bad behavior. This especially holds true among the civic-minded who vote. Who is responsible for President Donald Trump, Attorney General Matt Gaetz, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard? In a name, Joe Biden. The president and his votaries — the same people who assured us he toggled between reading The Brothers Karamazov and checkmating Magnus Carlsen as he did pistol squats in the Rose Garden — raced past norms, and law, to clear the field of his political rival to pave the easiest reelection road. Now Democrats reap what they sow. In what version of reality does Trump nominate the Florida congressman as attorney general minus the lawlessness and politicization the Justice Department exhibited over the past eight years? Newton’s Third Law applies to politics, too. The nominations of Matt Gaetz as attorney general and Tulsi Gabbard to oversee America’s intelligence agencies prove this. READ MORE: Five Frightening Ways Democrats Campaigned as They Govern The Age of Trump Kamala’s Conceited Cunctatious Concession The post Joe Biden Gave Us AG Gaetz, DNI Gabbard, and Trump appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.