Why removing Biden cabinet members would be a stupid and futile move

Lately, I’ve been hearing calls from Republican congressmen and conservative commentators for the removal of Joe Biden’s cabinet members. The person targeted most frequently in Biden’s cabinet has been Alejandro Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security secretary who has facilitated the arrival of millions and millions of illegal aliens at our southern border, 85% of whom have been let through. Biden and his DHS secretary have generously welcomed these foreigners, including drug traffickers and likely terrorists, and provided them with transportation into the interior of the country.

The reason this Democratic administration, with the energetic collaboration of Mayorkas, has assisted in this massive invasion is obvious. Democrats are trying to create a one-party state and will attempt to enfranchise the flood of illegal aliens as soon as the occasion permits.

Stop trying to remove cabinet officials, which wastes time and energy. Prepare for the only contest that counts: the one that will take place on November 5.

Biden and Mayorkas deserve to be removed from office for such gross violations of their oath to protect the citizens of this country. But it’s unlikely to happen.

Among other reasons, Republicans don’t have the votes in Congress to proceed beyond a preliminary impeachment inquiry. Moreover, neither Biden’s handlers (we may doubt that our titular chief executive is capable of volition) nor congressional Democrats will assist in removing a cabinet official whose actions they presumably support. After all, the obvious endgame in allowing our border to be overrun is to give their party perpetual control over the federal government.

It’s the same story when Republicans demand that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin resign because neither Austin nor Biden was forthcoming about the reasons for his recent absence. We now know Austin underwent treatment for prostate cancer but hid the fact from the public and let his office go unattended during his hospital stay. Republicans have insisted that this constituted a dereliction of duty, given all the international crises we now face, largely because of the sloppiness with which the administration conducts international relations.

Exactly what would be gained if those Republicans who demand these resignations got their way — which, of course, will never happen? Do these lawmakers honestly believe that those who would replace Mayorkas and Austin would be more to their taste? It is utterly inconceivable that our new DHS and defense secretaries would be politically or operationally different from the people they’d be replacing.

The Biden administration makes cabinet appointments that suit its electoral needs. Whoever replaces Mayorkas would have to practice the same deceptions as the man now holding the office. That would be a precondition for the appointment.

Austin has reached his present eminence because he is useful in promoting the identity politics of his party, which seems to be the Democrats’ strong suit with their core voters. Austin, as we know, is a black government official who is committed to critical race theory and has obligingly inflicted this doctrine on the military. If Austin goes, then his successor, in all likelihood, would need to fit a similar job description.

Republicans must notice by what criteria the Democrats fill cabinet and subcabinet posts. They use them to virtue-signal. And even if Republicans vote down flakey nominees for subcabinet or judicial positions, the Democrats believe that they are still sending a message to those who fancy their identity politics.

From their perspective, the perfect transportation secretary is the one they now have, Pete Buttigieg, an ostentatiously gay advocate for gay rights who since 2019 has been on record regretting that he said “all lives matter.” If Mayor Pete left his office, one could be sure that his replacement would not be a white heterosexual aeronautical engineer.

Nor does it seem likely that if Biden’s press secretary, the first foreign-born black lesbian in her position, left her job, she would be replaced by a white-bread normie. Ditto for our gay rights-happy ambassador to Hungary, who obviously got his post as a gesture of defiance toward Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s conservative government. And I’m still marveling at the alacrity with which our usually bumbling secretary of state required all American embassies to fly the rainbow banner during Gay Pride Month.

The proudest boast of the Biden administration is that 15% of its appointees identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or just “queer.” This administration can also boast of Rachel Levine, the first proudly transgender assistant secretary of health, who has been promoted to the rank of four-star admiral. The LGBTQ bragging rights of the Biden administration were not acquired accidentally. Wokeness is what Democratic voters and the corporate media like.

If Republican political leaders are as nauseated as I am by this virtue-signaling maladministration, there is a way to drive it into the wilderness. Take care to win key elections and, as a path forward, ensure the Democrats are forced to keep their cheating to a minimum. If the Republicans manage to recapture the presidency in November, they shouldn’t hold back about replacing vulnerable Democratic functionaries and abolishing agencies the left has weaponized.

Stop trying to remove cabinet officials, which wastes time and energy. Prepare for the only contest that counts: the one that will take place on November 5.