#UNITY: Within hours of calling for unity, Biden smashes norms to reward Big Labor.

UPPER-CLASS JOE: Pipefitters Union Gets Shafted With Biden’s Keystone Pipeline Cancellation.

FLASHBACK: Liberals Versus Political Speech. To be fair, they only want to put people behind bars for political speech they disagree with.

JOE BIDEN: THE NEW GEORGE WALLACE.

What is really at play here with President Biden, as with George Wallace, is identity politics. The original identity politics was slavery. After the abolition of slavery came the next installment of identity politics — segregation. The identity politics of today is the new segregation — identity politics being the son of segregation and the grandson of slavery. It’s all about race, and its practitioners can easily be called racial supremacists.

As I long ago detailed in this space, racism has been the political fuel for the Democratic Party since its inception.

The party was founded by slave owners. It wrote one platform after another supporting slavery. At its first convention after the Civil War, in 1868, with slavery abolished and segregation the new party doctrine, the party’s slogan was:

This is a White Man’s Country, Let White Men Rule. 

The point, of course, was to use race to win elections.

Nothing has changed with the Democratic Party. Today’s identity politics is nothing less than the politics of racial supremacy. Race trumps all.

Read the whole thing.

Related: How bad minorities became ‘white.’ Black and Latino Trump voters have been accused of suffering from ‘multiracial whiteness’.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS TAKING A WELL-NEEDED REST: Dem Govs Flout Own COVID Restrictions to Attend Biden Inauguration. “Michigan’s Whitmer banned outdoor gatherings of more than 25 people before attending event.”

GOOD LUCK: University of Iowa struggles to convince court its officials aren’t liable for unconstitutional actions.

LEFTIST USEFUL IDIOTS NO LONGER QUITE AS USEFUL: Twitter suspends Antifa accounts with more than 71K followers.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: One Day With Joe Biden and Everything Has Gone to Hell Already.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What do you do with a billionaire who brags that the guy he voted for is bad for business?

Answer: Seriously. We need to know. Because tar and feathers are just so unfashionable.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• A different billionaire — Warren Buffett — gets his first big payout for supporting Biden
• Dems struggle to put their Antifa/BLM genie back in the bottle
• It’s scientific fact that Dr. Fauci has reduced himself to a partisan hack — science!

Bonus Sanity: Soldiers still sleep whenever, wherever.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Temple counts BLM investment among ‘proudest moments’ of 2020, right alongside Alheizmer’s, HIV breakthroughs.

THE SUSPENSE ISN’T EXACTLY KILLING ANYONE: Facebook sends Trump suspension to its oversight board. “The former president’s account will remain blocked while the board makes its judgment.”

HMM: National Guard Mysteriously Booted From Capitol Now Told They Can Return.

WILL CODE FOR FOOD: Apple and Google execs applaud Biden’s immigration plan.

BLUE STATE BLUES: Former Cisco CEO John Chambers says his start-ups are skipping over Silicon Valley.

GEORGE KORDA: A TRUMP PARTY?

THEY DON’T EVEN PRETEND ANYMORE: Media gush: Bidens restore ‘love’ at the White House, ‘we missed that.’

SPEAK UP: Biden Can’t Snuff Out the Truth of America’s Past. “Joe Biden disbanded the 1776 Commission, but he cannot silence its members.”

SHOCKER: Biden Labor Pick Paid Biden-Linked Firm Tens of Thousands Prior to Nomination.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Impeach #NotMyPresident Joe Biden Also Plus #Resist. “I’m no United States Inauguration Day historian, but I can’t off the top of my head remember a new president taking over and thinking that killing jobs was a great way to kick things off and endear himself to his people. Honestly, I’m not sure that a mentally competent Joe Biden would have thought so either.”

Things may get a whole lot worse before suddenly falling apart.

BECAUSE IT WAS MADE A PARIAH BY COMPANIES AND INTEREST GROUPS DOING EXACTLY WHAT THEY ACCUSED PARLER OF DOING: Here’s why Parler is still struggling to come back online.

FLASHBACK: Have you hugged a fracker today? Our oil expansion keeps us safe from Iranian meddling.

ARE COLLEGES Covid Superspreaders? “The analysis of 30 large U.S. universities indicated that in 18 of them, a peak in campus infections preceded a peak in the surrounding county by less than 14 days, suggesting infections were translated from the campus to the nearby community. In some cases, the home counties of these large colleges had infection rates much greater than the rest of their state.”

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Child Sex-Trafficking Victim SUES Twitter in Federal Court, Says the Site Facilitated His Abuse.

OREGON PREFERENCES PEOPLE OF COLOR FOR COVID VACCINES: I don’t know, I’m just an Okie but isn’t that a violation of the equal protection clause? Hans Bader, who isn’t an Okie but is a Harvard Law guy, says it is.

YEP: A Government Of Politicians, By Politicians And For Politicians.

Nothing says “peaceful transition of power” like barbed wire, barricades and 25,000 troop standing by. . . .

Political Washington puts inordinate taxpayer assets on the line when it is, itself, being protested. There are FBI billboards across the country, at who knows what cost, asking for information about those who went into the Capitol Building on Jan. 6. I do not remember our politicians sending in National Guard troops or spending millions on billboards when American cities, government buildings and people’s businesses were burning all across America last year. But when there is the slightest threat to them, there is no limit to the amount of your money they will not spend to protect themselves.

There are more troops in Washington protecting politicians than we have in war zones across the world, all in an overreaction to a small fraction of marauding knuckleheads who ran amok in the Capitol. These self-absorbed career politicians should get over themselves. I have long supported term limits, and I feel further that no elected official like Schumer, “Plugs” Biden or Pelosi should serve more than one face lift or one hair transplant.

25,000 National Guard troops for an inauguration no one will attend? This is the only personal security detail bigger than the one that looks after Beyonce and Jay-Z. Thank goodness Trump brought so many of our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan to be able to staff this.

There are folks in burned-out “protest” cities who wish Washington politicians protected them the way they protect themselves. And for Democrats who say fences do not work and we should not have guns, it seems they have a lot of fences and guns around them.

Do tell.

TRUMP WAS NO REAGAN?

In the 1980s, the Democratic Party of Tip O’Neill bore little resemblance to the party that Trump had to confront as his relentless enemy. Back then Democrats were still a party of blue-collar workers (a class that Trump tried to bring into his populist movement). Tip O’Neill was an Irish Catholic ward-heeler from Boston, who represented a working-class base; Nancy Pelosi by contrast speaks for culturally radical San Franciscans in a transformed Democratic Party, which today features LGBTQ demands, anti-white hysteria, Green New Deals, and which fights the gender identity war. Why would anyone think that Trump would not have gotten along with Tip as well as Ronnie did; or that Reagan would have enjoyed a better relationship with the present Democratic Party than Trump has? We are speaking about different forces of opposition to the GOP in two different eras.

Although Reagan faced critics in the leftist media, as someone who briefly served in his administration, let me assure Mr. Lavin that this sniping was nothing like the nonstop, venomous attacks to which Trump was subjected from the moment he declared his candidacy for the presidency. I have no idea how anyone but an absolute saint would not have exploded in the face of such slander; and it was directed not only against the president but also against his wife and young son. Never in my long life have I seen such a feeding frenzy.

Attacks on Trump as another Hitler and calls for assaults on him became commonplace over the last four years; and I strongly suspect that if Reagan has been forced to deal with such adversaries his approval rating and his temper would both have taken a hit. Reagan left office with a 63 percent approval rating, which by 1989 went up to 68 percent. We might ask what that approval rating would have been if the media threw dirt at him incessantly and if his congressional opponents incited riots against him throughout his presidency. Please note these attacks occurred not just because the Donald was intemperate in his language. The Left wanted power, and it was necessary to destroy Trump’s presidency to achieve it.

Finally, I would note that, unlike Reagan, Trump tried to be a transformative president who took his own party kicking and screaming into the populist form that he gave it. Although an honest, dedicated leader, Reagan transformed nothing.

Well, you don’t transform things by handing them over to an establishmentarian like George H.W. Bush.