In the last four years, Democrats have escalated from echoing President Joe Biden‘s assertion that decency is on the ballot to now threatening that democracy itself is at stake, but neither the party in panic nor the president imploding in public seem to really believe this.
Despite accusing Trump of posing a greater risk to democracy itself than “his old pal Putin” and claiming the contemporary Republican Party under the former president’s purview is “worse” than literal Jim Crow segregationists such as Strom Thurmond, Biden seems positively sanguine at the prospect of losing his reelection bid to a man he’s accused of treason.
“I’ll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about,” said a satisfied Biden when pressed on the possibility of losing to Trump by George Stephanopoulos during last week’s ABC interview.
While a handful of more centrist Democrats have overtly called upon Biden to withdraw from the race, the party’s leadership has more or less resigned itself to the reality that Biden has secured 99% of the nominating delegates and that he will relinquish neither his nomination nor his quarter-trillion-dollar war chest that could legally only go to Kamala Harris if he were to withdraw and endorse his vice president. Elected kingmakers such as Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Jim Clyburn (D-SC) have publicly dithered in expressing concern, and past presidents such as Barack Obama have not refuted leaks that they’re quietly questioning Biden’s longevity despite their public endorsements.
But when Dr. McB, first lady Jill Biden, declares her husband is the only one for the job, no household name from the party has called her out for bringing their crackhead son into White House conversations. When Biden himself smears those challenging his rule as “elites” wishing to disenfranchise voters in general and his team telegraphs Biden haters are racist and classist as well, not one mainstream maverick has called out such malarkey. Ironically enough, the likes of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN), the far-left socialists who would likely earn the greatest share of plaudits from their bases for radical truth-telling if they called out Biden for the egotistical tyrant that he is becoming, actually seem downright pleased with his persisting bid.
Across the ideological spectrum and demographic tiers of the party, the various elected Democrats all have their own self-interested reasons not to admit the emperor is actually butt naked — better 2028 odds to challenge a weakened Harris should Biden lose to Trump, etc. — but they all reveal the truth behind their ugly lies: Democrats don’t actually believe Trump poses an existential threat to democracy as we know it.
If Democrats really cared about democracy as an abstract concept, they probably wouldn’t have spent years trying to disenfranchise one side of the aisle by prosecuting its preferred presidential nominee and trying to overtly remove him from the ballot, and they definitely wouldn’t have successfully disenfranchised their own voters by outright canceling state presidential primaries and blocking any challengers to Biden from even appearing on the ballot. Furthermore, we wouldn’t have seen the torrent of tirades that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, or literally any other Republican was Actually Worse Than Trump.
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If, according to Democratic logic, Trump is worse than Putin and every single other generic GOP primary challenger was actually more dangerous than Trump, then either the person making such a series of statements doesn’t believe Putin is that dangerous or, more realistically, everything they’re saying is a lie.
As has been true for the past half-century of Biden’s career of failing upward, the man who has, at last, achieved his white whale will not let go because Pelosi hemmed and hawed over his age. Biden, who is polling worse against Trump than any general election Democrat against a Republican presidential challenger in at least the last 20 years, is happy to suicide-bomb his way to Election Day, dragging his party down with him. And if the rest of the party really cared, it’d stop treating him less like a frail old man trying to pass with dignity and more like a threat to democracy as we know it.