President Biden made the unprecedented decision Sunday to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, less than four months after being declared the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee and just weeks after a dismal debate showing.
Getting him out of the way–and that’s what really happened–doesn’t solve his party’s basic problem, which I stated at the very start of his term as President:
That I think is a big part of why the left freaked out over Donald Trump. They know that they don’t have a Lenin to counter a Kornilov; they don’t have a Mao Tse-Tung to counter a Chiang Kai-Shek; they don’t have a Castro to counter a Batista. They’re more like an Azaña against a Franco, and we all know how that ended. So they freak out when a strong person comes against them. Their best hope is to lean on our tech oligarchy to deplatform their opponents, and although intra-oligarchy fights are not unknown to the left…it’s not the best way to bring power or justice to the people.
Irrespective of whether Biden successfully passes the torch to Kamala Harris or it’s wrested from his hands by another, the Democrat party has a shallow bench of leadership. They’re better at gumming their opponents to death at a bureaucratic level than finishing the job. Until they fix that they’ll continue to freak out over people like Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, who, although is lionised for his up from poverty story, is reminded every night that his wife’s family accomplished more in 25 years than his in 250. And now of course we have Elon Musk, who broke the tech oligarchy’s monolithic wall (my comment on intra-oligarchy fights stands.)
Honestly the saga of Joe Biden–not the sharpest knife in the drawer to start with, diminished by age while his decline was concealed by a sycophantic media and ruthless handlers–is one of the sorriest I’ve seen in American politics, and I’ve seen many sorry ones in my time.
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