The Greatest Insult
Joe Biden is a good man unable to fully lead. Donald Trump is a guttersnipe unable to lead in any way.
The vaunted “American people” as proclaimed by politicians center, left, and right have never been wrong. “In the end” they might say “…the American people get it right.” A ploy that makes the speaker warmer, possibly wiser, maybe even cool. This evening the American people are watching a debate between the banality of Trump, and the tired and too old Biden. The American people this evening are leaning towards favoring the stupid, vicious bully over the old man he’s humiliating. In a sickening majority the American people will report to the media that they want the bully to lead. This is the greatest insult. The American people will vote Biden off the island. If….he continues to run. But what if…on Sunday afternoon…Biden calls a press conference and gives a short and sweet resignation speech wherein he acknowledges his inability to persevere in this role. This is a plan. This is my dream now.
The swearing in of Harris is a very potent kind of energy added to the prospects of the new campaign. The only party making an effort to govern would retain incumbency in the oval. Harris is a prosecutor. A senator. A state’s attorney general. Interesting? America is on the razor’s edge. Either Trump ascendent and a reactionary elevation of white supremacy and kleptocracy, or democracy is given more time with a more progressive movement than perhaps has ever been allowed since the Great Society of Johnson.
1. A Biden legacy preserved, possibly elevated given the honest to goodness data on governance in his term regardless of the tsunami of naked deceit and obfuscation which constitute Trump’s only political mojo.
America’s first woman president is a very smart, strong politico with a term as VP under her belt and enough vigor to dine on Trump’s child-like lying, mugging and efforts to humiliate.
The next debate with the same rules. Trump vs. Harris. I like that set up.
The reason I dream such dreams is because the “American people” most assuredly have it wrong. Forget MAGA. That is simple, crude, white supremacy. A vehicle. It is the fact that there exist enough people outside of that large minority, the Independents, the Libertarians and the smattering of others who would be unsure in choosing between Trump and Biden that is in my mind the greatest insult.