A Year Later

The White House announced this morning that President Joe Biden will visit East Palestine next month. (I hope he realizes he’s going to East Palestine, Ohio, and not the West Bank.) By the time Biden arrives, it will have been a year since the toxic train derailment forced many of East Palestine’s residents to evacuate.

Some may say, “Better late than never.” No, I don’t think so.

When the working-class people of that town needed the president the most, he was nowhere to be seen. The only major political figures who showed up for them were populist conservatives Donald Trump and Sen. J. D. Vance.

The people of East Palestine are no different than the people of the other 2,500 counties that Trump won. But he was there to help just days after the horrible accident.

No one on the left cares about the people of East Palestine unless they can be politically exploited. They don’t even try to hide it. They’re “bitter clingers,” “deplorable,” “homophobes” and “xenophobes.”

The neo-Marxist left has a real problem with Middle America.

It wasn’t a great surprise when the United Auto Workers (UAW) endorsed Joe Biden. But it was surprising when UAW President Shawn Fain later admitted that “A great majority of our members will not vote for President Biden.”

By the way, I expect the worst thing that may happen to Biden when he finally shows up in East Palestine is that there might be a few hecklers or very little interest in his visit because these are decent people.

It’s when a conservative tries to go to a college campus or some other progressive area that you need a small army of security because the conservative speaker is likely to be attacked by intolerant leftists.