Joe Biden will be a one-term president. That is now clear.
He will either decline to seek re-election or he will get trounced in November, 2024. If he runs, he will get thumped much as Donald Trump did in November, 2020. The difference is that he and his supporters won’t claim “fraud” or “hoax” or “rigged.”
We will have a peaceful transition of power, as we have every time in American history save once.
But in any event, Joe Biden will leave office on January 20, 2025.
A lot of that will be his fault. Some of it won’t be. But as a practical matter, it makes no difference. Paraphrasing The Eagles, he is already gone.
Yes, he botched the exit from Afghanistan. Sorry, Dems, he did. It was tragically and incompetently botched. He also failed to acknowledge any mistakes, or take responsibility. He lamely said, “The buck stops here” while passing the buck to more people from more angles than Patrick Mahomes.
No. He’s not responsible for inflation. He’s not responsible for gas prices. His critics concerning those subjects might want to take an economics class. Hopefully, someday they’ll wind up being more informed about economics than they have proved to be about biology.
Doesn’t matter. The perception is and will be that he is to blame for these bread-and-butter issues. And it’s pretty clear we’re going to be dealing with inflation for a while. This is not “transient.” Joe is screwed.
I’m not whining. That’s the way these things work.
James Carville is correct. Perception is everything. Perceived “Wokeness” is going to put the Dems to sleep, electorally,
Joe Biden will be a one-term president. Way too late, and out da gate.
Continuing under the theme of “keeping it real.” Kamala Harris is unelectable. And frankly she has done nothing as VP to suggest she should be electable.
The Dems have no bench. The only guy who makes any sense at all is Pete, and we all know that ain’t gonna happen.
Dems are also their own worst enemies, and have proved to be Biden’s largest albatross.
We’re overwhelmingly a center-right country, and center-right voters are scared of Dems. Right or wrong, legitimately or illegitimately, warranted or not, they are afraid of Dems. And fear is not driven by reason. (Take a look at the role fear has already played in turning the GOP into a Cult.)
So, we’re doomed to four years of nightmarish Trump déjà vu?
NO! Quite the contrary.
The GOP no longer needs Trump. It’s not going to need him to win in 2022, and it’s not going to need him in 2024 (particularly if he’s in prison).
See, “Youngkin, Glenn.”
Conscientious Republicans of integrity (and there are many) need no longer put a clothespin on their noses to keep the stench out of their brains. They no longer have to support what they have lamely rationalized as “the lesser of two evils.”
This is an opportunity, Republicans. This is a no-cost opportunity to divorce yourselves from insanity and get back on a respectable side of American and human history.
Those of you who have said, “I don’t like Trump, but…” no longer have an excuse.
Joe Biden will be a one-term president. That is now clear.
That doesn’t mean we will be limited to two unacceptable choices.
There is now a practical path out of the Garden of Insanity, if we are smart enough and brave enough to follow it.
Republicans, you no longer have to pander to crazies. And if you continue to do so, it will prove that is secretly who you’ve been all along.
