One thing sstood out for me when I belatedly watch the now historical debate and apocalypic hysteria that has followed it.
Donald Trump wasn’t leading the news.
First, there is no doubt in my mind that Joe Biden will drop out of the race, and the Democraatic Party can and will choose a new candidate. There is simply no way he can continue his campaign after his disastrous night in Atlanta.
But for people who love democracy and wish it to continue, that is the best news in many years. Here’s why.
After the debate, Donald Trump waited on stage to announce his candidate for vice president in the November election. He and his aides were shocked that only one reporter showed up.
The others were all swarming about Joe Biden’s people asking why he seemed to have literally fallen asleep during the debate.
For the first time I can recall since 2016, Donald Trump was no longer the big story, or even one at all. Joe Biden was. His aides told reporters later that he was stunned and angry. He better get used to it. There is a new kid on the block coming soon. No more free ride.
When Biden wakes up from his deep dream and steps down, imagine the publicity the new candidate will generate. The tables will be turned on the world champion of manipulating media.
I am no seer, I can’t predict what the Democrats will do about this, but if they don’t wake up and do something smart and exciting then they don’t deserve the new chance they are being given.
Donald Trump is red and raw meat for almost any seasoned politician to take on. President Biden could never figure out how to do it and is now too week and enfeebled.
There are a lot of experienced Democratic politicians who can, given a chance.
Donald Trump is a showman, he performs so often and so skillfully, his lies and mistakes don’t register any more, its just Trump being Trump.
Even Christian Evangelics have been sucked in, now believe Trump is so “sacred” and “blessed” that God sent him down to screw up our democracy, end the seperation of church and state, outlaw same sex marriage, ban abortion and help them take over the nation. There is, as everyone on either side is saying again and again, a lot at stake.
I’ve felt – and written – from the beginning of this drama that the debate is a great gift for the Democratic Party if they awaken and act promptly on it. It feels to me like they will.
The idea that there is no time for another candidate is, for lack of a better word, complete bullshit. Progressives are so beaten down by Trumpism that they have trouble recognizing a victory when one smacks them on the nose.
Almost every democratic country in the world has four to six month election periods, or even shorter ones. Ours are ridiculously long, draining and expensive.
Given the social media and other realities of the media world, media will not be a problem for the new democratic candidate, especially if he or she knows how to use it. Thanks to Joe Biden, everyone in the country is suddenly paying attention and will be to someone other than Trump.
Short campaigns are better than long ones, they give critics, opponents and pesky reporters less time to find some old embarrassing social media post or sexual scandal.
That is a shocker that will be the game changer that could bring Trump down for good, he’s never had a President or candidate who could challenge him. It can be done.
The Republican Party has been obsessed with bringing Biden down, they will have to shift gears quickly and forcefully. They won’t have nearly as much time to do that to the new candidate.
Overnight, Trump, not Biden will be the too-old candidate, forgetting names and dates and issues. His age will be questioned, and his lies will be challenged, which Biden has never really done.
A younger, saner, calmer candidate (hopefully) will offer an alternative to Trump, perhaps the worst candidate in American political history.
The problem with Biden is not that he is old (written by an old person) but that he never once challenged a single lie that flowed almost continuously from Trump’s dis jointed and inarticulate mouth. Anyone who wants to be President of the United States at this point needs to be able to do that, or at least try.
Some of Biden’s aides belive he was falling asleep, exhausted from two days of trans-Atlantic conference going. A president should be ablel to do that also. I know I can’t.
Democratic candidates are not much more moral or effective than Republican ones, being politicians, they will also put their own lives and well being first.
If they don’t move to get Biden off of the ticket and find a worth opponent, they will go down with him, and no politician (think the Republican Party) wants to do that.
All of this is a gamechanger, a fresh and timely chance to refresh and support and keep our democracy. It tells me there is a God, and it’s not Donald Trump he saved to take over our country.
Trump is a genius at dividing people, and he is no good at attracting the support of new ones. Most of the people who don’t like Biden don’t have much love for Trump either. And his debate performance was a little remarked on mess, a string of lies and threats.
If there is, in fact, a God, he is better than Trump.
We are given an almost miraculous chance to keep our government and way of life intact. It will also mean than one way or another, even Donald Trump will be held accountable for his crimes.
Our country is stronger than many of us think. It faces many problems and challenges. The federal bureacracy is a lot bigger than Donald Trump.
We are not on the edge of an apocalypse or fascist takeover of the nation.
We suffer from extremists and hysterics on both side. it’s time to get on with it and elect someone who can actually govern our very divided country. Joe Biden did a lot of good things, but he couldn’t bring the country together.
A new and fresh candidate might.
Donald Trump certainly can’t or won’t unite us. I’m grateful for the new chance we have so unexpectedly be given.
