I long believed—and I still believe it—that the Democratic Party’s main strategy in all the lawfare against Trump was to build sympathy and support for him among the Republican base so that he would win the Republican nomination. They surmised that Trump had absolutely no chance of ever being elected president again; thus, they helped him get nominated. In that effort, they succeeded royally.
I suppose if Trump got tossed in jail for some reason, that would all be well and good, too. Republicans would still support him, but most Americans probably wouldn’t vote for a convicted criminal. But there are enough lawyers in the Democratic Party to know that the cases against Trump are largely high-cholesterol pig slop. Only juries in 100 percent Democratic cities would ever find him guilty of anything, and it would be overturned on appeal. So, the Democrats got what they wanted—Trump at the top of the Republican ticket, a man whom they think (thought) could never win the election.
But they never counted on a few problems arising. One of them is the backlash against these utterly hateful, totally unjust attacks on Trump. THAT appears to be building support for Trump in locations the Democrats never dreamed of. Not all Americans are Democrats, thus not all Americans are robots. And plenty of our countrymen can see the repulsive, smearing politics the Democrats are playing, and are finding it a bit off-putting. Even Donald Trump doesn’t deserve THIS. Nobody likes a hater. And in politics, people want to hear what you are going to do, not just who you hate. The Democrats, so far, have offered nothing positive to the American people; only loathing of Trump. I don’t know if they thought that would be enough to win this November, but right now, it doesn’t appear to be.
Of course, another problem the Democrats have is that they don’t HAVE anything positive to offer America. Joe Biden is the worst president in American history, and every month, he gets worse. He keeps digging an increasingly deeper hole. If he continues to do that, he will lose. And the Democrats are feeling that. They are falling back onto their strategy of “Look what Trump just said!,” but that is only pleasing their base. And if Americans truly look at what Trump DID say, they will be repulsed even more by Democratic antics. But how can anyone defend Biden? Attacking Trump is all the Democrats have at the moment.
I’ve gone back and forth on whether the Democrats are going to dump Biden or not. I first thought they wouldn’t because, historically, replacing an incumbent president who wants a second term is virtually impossible. A president has awesome power, far more than the Founders ever intended. Thus, countless hangers-on in the Democratic Party owe their cushy, useless jobs to Biden, and are going to stick with him through thick and thin. It will be difficult to get rid of Biden, even if the Democrats could do it. It would be...pardon the word...a bloodbath.
Then, for awhile, I thought that the Dems, because of certain problems Biden has, such as his age and obvious mental slippage (not to mention his poll numbers), would be able to gently (or not so much) remove him. Currently, I really don’t know what they will do, so I’m not even going to speculate. I’ll just sit and wait and laugh.
I do know that, not only will it be challenging to drop Biden, but the Democrats face the serious conundrum of whom they would replace him with. Really, who do they have? Michelle Obama said again recently that she does not want the job, and I think she means it. She’s said it too many times. Kamala would certainly take it, but the Democrats aren’t going to give her the top spot. She’s less popular and more obviously incompetent than Biden is. Gavin Newsom gets some talk, but I’m not so sure the Democrats want him, either. How will flyover America—and that includes some very crucial states—react to the possibility of the rest of America, particularly their states, ending up looking like California? Newsom has been as bad a governor in California as Biden has been president of the United States. And many Americans know that. Problem, indeed.
People may not especially like Trump, but the country didn’t fall apart during his administration. In fact, until the Wuhan virus hit, things were actually going pretty well. Trump is going to look a whole lot better than Kamala or Newsom to a whole lot of Americans.
So, drop Biden? For whom? Who else do the Democrats have? Yes, they’d nominate somebody, some virtual unknown, and obviously millions of people would vote for him/her/it. I’m reminded of the 1844 election. The Democratic Party was deadlocked for a long time and finally nominated James K. Polk, a near unknown outside of his native Tennessee, just to have somebody on the ticket. It was reported that when one man heard about the nomination of Polk, he said, “Hurray for...who did you say it was?” He’d never heard of Polk. But Polk won the presidency that year. It could happen to “Unknown Democrat” this year.
But my point here is, the Democrats have some problems. They are turning a lot of people away with their single-minded hatred and vituperative attacks on Trump. They are out-Trumping Trump, making him look like the nice guy. They have a serious Biden problem. If they can’t get rid of him, they are stuck with him, will have to defend him somehow, and will be offering an obviously unpopular, senile president to America for four more years. If they succeed in ditching Biden, who can they present as a positive alternative?
Right now, their strategy is “Trump is more disgusting than Biden.” That’s all they’ve got. Well, and they intend to cheat. That goes without saying.
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