‘For the Republicans, I think it’s time they wake up and escape the death embrace of Donald Trump and his MAGA cult.’
I THINK what would be good for America won’t happen. And that is both Joe Biden and Donald Trump stand down as the nominees of the Democratic Party and Republican Party, respectively, for the 2024 Presidential elections.
My reasoning is not the same for both men.
For Biden, it’s simple: America needs a more energetic leader. I do believe that Biden is as decent as it comes. I have no doubts about his integrity. Yes, there was that issue of the “Keating Five” during his Senate years – but anyone who has been in politics as long as Joe Biden has should have a skeleton or two in his closet.
But as closets go, Joe’s is relatively empty.
Joe has done his job. He denied Trump a second term. To me, that’s good enough.
For the Republicans, I think it’s time they wake up and escape the death embrace of Donald Trump and his MAGA cult. Like Biden, he is not of the age that America needs as a leader; unlike Biden, he has far too much moral and ethical baggage that damages him beyond repair.
Trump has been the single most serious “threat” to American democracy since the Civil War, inspiring a generation of Americans to doubt their system and doubt their leaders and doubt even the most basic tenets of the US Constitution.
That he has to be put through the legal wrangle before being judged guilty or not for his actions and words is democracy at work, but Trump has been able to use democracy’s weakness against itself and paradoxically may be able to win back the highest office in the American democracy despite the threat that he poses to it.
But no American political party has never ever junked a sitting president and denied him a nomination; it was not even close in 1976 when Edward Kennedy challenged Jimmy Carter.
And so, the nomination of the Democratic Party is Biden’s. For better or for worse.
For Trump, there is no way he will give up his effort to win a second, albeit unconsecutive term. He needs to win if he is to escape accountability for the words and actuators of January 6, 2021, and beyond; so why will he give up?
More so when the nomination is his for the taking, given how enthralled the MAGA Republican base is with him.
And so, it does appear to be a rematch, 2024 as a remake of 2020. The only question is – will there be enough disillusioned Democrats and independents who will hand the presidency to Trump — or, in the alternative, will there be enough disillusioned Republicans and independents to gift Biden with a second term?
