As a human type Hunter Biden is familiar enough. Like George W. Bush and Ted Kennedy, he is a wayward member of a political dynasty with a strange knack for slaloming his way out of trouble. Before the internet it was much easier for such figures to go about their business. It is hard to see how the goings-on at Chappaquiddick could be covered up now, in the age of X and camera phones. It was Hunter’s misfortune to be born too late.
Dynasties are self-interested and adopt ideas based on the needs of the moment. The Habsburgs placed themselves at the head of the Counter-Reformation, and the Bushes, who were once liberal Republicans of the Nelson Rockefeller mold, later became the spokesmen of the evangelical revival. Hunter Biden is now going along in a similar vein. As a guest on The Candace Owens Show, he brought out the old theory – now doing the rounds again – that all men would be brothers if not for the CIA. According to Biden, the 2016 book The Devil’s Chessboard, which is about the global intrigues of one of the agency’s old directors Allen Dulles, shows that “it’s not about Democrats and Republicans” and that “it’s not about left and right.” Americans are only so divided because they are being manipulated by the intelligence agencies and by the “Epstein class” – the same people who forced his father from office.
