We've known, since the criminal, anti-American, anti-Patriotic Trump insurrection of January 6, 2020, that Donald Trump is the leading internal enemy of American Constitutional Democracy. I think, after watching him actually win an election and then serve as President, we know this long before January 6th. Aside from just branding himself as a worldly person with an arrogant disrespect for anyone else, a despicable way of using people for his own purposes and then throwing them under the bus as he moves on, and his complete lack of respect for women, including his own wives, along with the fraud crimes and sexual assaults, his term in office was characterized by ongoing total ignorance of the constitution and how a republican form of government with balance of power worked.
He was the single worst President in American history, an evaluation made, not by his political enemies, or by the 80 million Americans who voted him out of office after one term, but by Presidential scholars who have been respected in their unbiased, non-partisan, objective evaluation of Presidential success.
He has been, in both politics and business, a failure.
The Republican Party Has Nominated Him Three Times
It's not been that long ago that insider Republicans considered a candidacy for President by Donald Trump as a joke. But Trump had a political following built for him to step in, one that he didn't have to build from the ground up. Rush Limbaugh helped bring prejudices and ignorance to the surface, overwhelming establishment Republicanism, at a time when they were having trouble winning elections. And Trump successfully capitalized on that bigotry, which the Republican establishment ignored, to get to the top.
What happened was a replacement of establishment Republicans within the party with MAGA Republicans. The MAGA Republicans also pushed a lot of the establishment away from the voting booth. These people, for the most part, didn't go to the other side, but they did stay home on election day. So by moving the party in a regressive direction with regard to social issues, Trump was able to replace the Bush family in party leadership. George W. Bush has quietly but openly stated he will vote for Biden, again, as has daughter Jenna, an NBC morning television personality.
He won this nomination through the primary system, though a persistent 21% of Republican primary voters who went to the polls, even after Nikki Haley had dropped out, made an effort to show up and vote against him. Whether they do that in the general election remains to be seen. If they do, he loses big.
Control of the Political Narrative via Control of the Media
I'd be curious to see if a study has been done on how much media attention and screen time Trump has sucked up with his scandals and indictments, compared to the amount of time President Biden has appeared in the media. Trump has unofficially been on the campaign trail for four years, and he has received more media attention than his campaign could ever raise money to pay for. I have yet to see a fair comparison of all of the negatives Trump brings to this campaign, compared to the achievements and accomplishments of President Biden, which match the best of those of the entire modern era.
The media focus is on keeping the divisiveness going, and growing, something from which they benefit. And almost all of them, corporate owned and interested in massive profiteering, have replaced what we used to call a free press in this country. We don't have that anymore. Democrats, never good at controlling the narrative because of insisting on covering every policy benefit and achievement rather than actually pointing out the good they have done, have yet to devise the kind of methodology that gets media attention like the immorality and the seedier side of Trump, which provides an infinite amount of sleeze and corruption.
Right at the time that exposure of Project 2025, a draconian set of political platform planks that would put an end to a lot of individual freedom and would curtail the rights of millions of Americans, turning women back into second class citizens and considering Latinos, Blacks and Asians as "foreigners," regardless of where they were born or how long they've been here, an orchestrated, "pop up" campaign to sew doubt into the perception of the President's ability to lead the country has stretched on for three weeks.
Built on a panic generated by what most people would call the President's "poor" debate performance, which is insignificant in the campaign, as far as I am concerned, and bogus polls that mysteriously shifted in Trump's direction in the spring, after failing to accurately predict the outcome of the Mid-term elections the previous November, Democrats, who appear to be driven by threats made by some of their bigger donors, a relatively small and insignificant cluster, in terms of their money and their help, are sabotaging their whole election picture.
Is that, too, a Trump "success?"
If a single debate performance, which, fairly considered alongside the Trump debate performance in which he failed to answer any of the questions truthfully, wasn't all that bad, can prompt a few donors to threaten some Democrats in Congress to create a stir to force the elected nominee off the ticket, something has to be happening somewhere. I'm not yet convinced there isn't some opportunistic Republican strategy in there somewhere. And I think some of those donors need to prove their loyalty to the Democratic party and openly declare they believe Trump is an existential threat to democracy. If they aren't willing to do that, we don't need them and they need to go.
No Imagination Necessary
It's not difficult to imagine what a second Trump Presidency would look like. But take a few minutes to do that anyway.
Anyone who is sincere and committed to that not happening needs to understand that what Democrats are doing now will lead to the worst possible outcome, a second Trump Presidency.
Are you sufficiently horrified?
Those polls that some people think are infallible are pretty clear in showing that a change of candidate now would lead to a democratic defeat, not only for the Presidency, but it would drag down Congressional candidates as well.
Here's what I want to know:
1. How committed are those donors who are threatening to hold out if Biden is the nominee to keeping Trump out of the White House? Do they understand the implications of his being re-elected, and if they do understand, why are they doing what they're doing?
2. If they are simply using money to manipulate, cut the loss and move on. They're doing no one, including themselves, any favors.
Joe Biden is the best democratic candidate to beat Donald Trump. He's done it before and with good support and enthusiasm, he will do it again.
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