Joe Biden is struggling. His capacity seems to be so diminished that whenever he leaves his basement he has an episode his campaign regrets.
Recognizing the varied weaknesses of candidate Biden, his handlers know he won’t be able to cross the finish line in this year’s election without lots of help. The left is scrambling to cover for Mr. Biden. The selection of Sen. Kamala Harris is a start; she can apparently speak outside of a basement. Part of the Biden effort includes attempting to defang his opposition. Take the NRA.
Founded in 1871, the National Rifle Association is the most successful civil rights organization in the nation, with 5 million active and engaged members. Conservatives have failed politically on many cultural issues (think: abortion), but not on guns. The one cultural issue that conservatives have not only preserved, but in which they have made great advances, is the right to own and carry firearms for personal defense.
The threat a Biden presidency poses to law-abiding gun owners is a political liability that could finally finish off Mr. Biden’s decades-long quest to be president. Both Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris have well-deserved “F” ratings from the NRA.
This is a political anvil for the Biden-Harris ticket in many battleground states that their campaign needs to flip to defeat President Trump. Think very gun-friendly Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania for starters.
This is a political problem for the left that calls for “lawfare.”
The great Prussian military historian Carl von Clausewitz famously defined “warfare” as merely the continuation of politics by other means. “Lawfare” is the continuation of warfare by legal means — that is, by means of litigation and legal processes. And, in lawfare, as in warfare, supplies, forces and firepower are often more important than the justice of the cause, that is, who deserves to win.
Two weeks ago, Ms. James filed a civil suit against the NRA alleging various legal violations and calling for the organization to be disbanded.
The lawsuit appears to be motivated largely by politics and designed to distract the NRA from its mission: preserving the individual right to keep and bear arms. Ms. James ran openly on a political platform of trying to take down the NRA and she’s giving it her best shot.
Tellingly, the New York attorney general brought no criminal charges because apparently there are none to be made. The attorney general has filed only a civil lawsuit.
This lawsuit is simply an excuse to generate headlines right before an election and to force the NRA to waste its resources. Classic lawfare.
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