Both the president and his reelection campaign are going after his coup-attempting predecessor even before the first GOP primary ballots are cast.
A full year out from the 2024 presidential election and nearly two months before Republicans cast their first primary ballots, President Joe Biden and his campaign are assuming that Donald Trump will be his opponent and have already started reminding voters why they threw him out of office in the first place.
Biden personally has stepped up criticism of his coup-attempting predecessor and is framing the likely rematch as one that will determine the survival of American democracy.
“The same man who said we should terminate the rules and regulations and articles of the Constitution — these are things he said — is now running on a plan to end democracy as we know it,” he said last week at a fundraiser in Chicago.
“This next election is different. It’s more important. There’s more at stake. And we all know why: Because our very democracy is at stake,” he told a San Francisco audience on Wednesday.
“We already had a near impact with fascism once and were fine so let’s just do it again in the hopes it wakes up the liberals into voting for a socialist”
“After Hitler, our turn!” - actual slogan of the Communist Party in Weimar Germany
We’re not fine. Any metrics i care about have been goin downhill since 2016. They didnt change course in 2020, and would probably worsen in 2024 if trump wins. Or in 2028 if he wins, or 2032, 2036. Might be a 2040 old centrist Hillary vs Trump Jr. I dont see anything good long term with the current voting system.
Okay, then, you realize that Trump winning is just further backsliding into authoritarianism, but not that there’s no feasible left of Trump candidate for 24 other than Biden?
I don’t disagree that Biden is about the worst candidate short of Manchin the Dems could throw out there. However, the solution is getting someone better than that as the nomination In 28 or god willing in 24 not throwing the election to Trump.
We’re still backsliding under Biden. Who was a worse option than Hillary, who was a worse option than Obama. I can only expect worse in 2028 from dems. Theres a breaking point of supporting democrats and Biden is well past that.
In all measurable ways, Biden is more progressive than Obama, and Obama was more progressive than Bill. It’s preposterous to say the democrats are backsliding.
Obama didnt spearhead efforts to outlaw a union strike. Obama’s climate bill wasnt poisoned with millions of acres of new oil drilling permits. Biden hasnt made any progress on Obamacare. Workers rights are shit, climate is shit, healthcare is shit, abortion is illegal again. As for Bill to Obama, Bill raised minimum wage, the last time it’s gone up under a democratic president, and he raised taxes on the wealthy more than Obama, who raised taxes more than Biden, who has not done anything with the wealthy’s tax rate.