I missed the national moment that was Brandon.
Blame it on work. If your head has been similarly buried in the sand, the Brandon moment involved a NASCAR audience yelling, “F— Joe Biden,” which the anchor translated as, “Let’s go, Brandon” as she was interviewing the race winner, named Brandon. The moment inspired a rap song called “Let’s Go Brandon.”
I asked my son to play the clip for me, and he started fidgeting with the computer. “This is hard,” he said, which, to the normal person on a computer, means, “This is virtually impossible to find.” My son is a genius in this regard, and he found it, even though YouTube and the other usual suspects had taken it down for “misinformation.”
Misinformation?
I did not ask to see the clip because of any interest in car racing. My much greater interest is in politics. And free speech. And especially free political speech. The fact that an audience of mostly working people have that much anger toward President Joe Biden was more interesting to me than all of the talking heads who babble in the background of political shows.
The chattering class doesn’t go to NASCAR. Those are working people, the ones Biden says he’s standing up for. So, why are they furious at a man who has, since his inauguration been mostly invisible? There was never a day during the Trump administration that the president didn’t give all of us with space to fill something to write about. Biden? As my grandmother might have said, “What’s to hate?”
