President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Come to think of it this should be the Biden campaign’s theme song.

 

The Dems need to be going for knockouts, but keep trying to throw jabs to convince the Seoul Olympic boxing judges that they deserve to win on points.

 

Wait until dude bros find out Project 2025 wants to make porn illegal.

 

The name's Nacho to you. Mr. Nacho.

 

"Protecting Democracy" is abstract and, IMO, as easy to mistrust as it is to trust. Our democracy is stronger than that.

If you're going to go abstract - and when you want to say something - here's the phrase: A New Age. Press hard into the idea that, above all else, Donald Trump is old. And a country seemingly this unhappy needs someone more upbeat and energetic presiding over it.

Time to move on from Cold War-era thinking, and the octogenarians shaped by it, into an era where we look less for enemies and more for common ground. In fact, if I were Harris, I'd say it like this: Elect me president, and the prosecution of Donald Trump will end on all fronts. We're done looking back to 2016 and 2020. The world is changing too fast to relitigate the last eight years.

You know, what can be, unburdened by what has been.

And only she can do it. You could never win a primary saying those things. Fortunately, she doesn't have to.

 

I disagree. I think a good vs. evil battle favors Trump, because that battle is really, at this point, government vs. one guy, and Americans are attuned to rooting for the individual.

Young vs. old, new vs. the same old fights, Harris can win that battle. But she'd have to be willing to tell her base, "we're setting grievances and the hobby horses aside for four months." That in itself is a risk, since at least some Democratic voters define themselves by the lifelong scores they want government to settle for them.

 

If she said she’d drop all Trump prosecutions, Democrats would stay home in droves.

 

How strong will our democracy look if your boy can kill his enemies without consequences? Your SCOTUS says he can’t be criminally prosecuted, and your Congress won’t impeach or remove him.

 

And your voters don’t? That’s the entirety of Trumpism: He will be your voice and your retribution. He has said so himself.

 

Then that says not-so-good things about those voters, doesn't it?

At any rate, I disagree. Presented properly, I think people will embrace that approach. People are, above all else, tired of Trump. Even some of his defenders. If you can say to America, "As of Jan. 20, 2025, we're done talking about Trump, full stop" there's a power in that.

And Biden never did. He actually got a few things done, yes, but never stopped framing his presidency as a bulwark against the literal end of America.