I keep seeing headlines like “Democrats Keep Hoping it’s Curtains for Trump” and can’t believe them. I suppose in one sense it’s true: the Democrats keep hoping Trump will be defeated and his movement will fade away. But in terms of the 2024 election, they can’t seriously be hoping to run against Nikki Haley.
The only chance the Democrats have of winning in 2024, with Biden as their nominee for president, is if Trump is the Republican nominee. Or maybe DeSantis. But if the Republicans end up nominating Nikki Haley or Larry Hogan or Chris Christie, Biden will surely lose, by a big margin.
And the only chance Trump has of winning is if the Democratic nominee is Joe Biden. Consider Trump against Amy Klobuchar or Gretchen Witmer or Sherrod Brown or Gavin Newsom or Sheldon Whitehouse. He would probably lose by a large margin.
The most bizarre aspect of this entire scenario is that America has the two worst presidential nominees in 100 years and can’t do anything about it. What does “democracy” mean in this context? How is this a democratic “choice” when a majority of Americans want to choose from a multitude of candidates that are not the ones they are forced to choose from?
Even a majority of Democrats don’t want Biden. You would think– in a democracy– that a political party could at least chose it’s own leader. But, without exactly explaining why, the media make it clear (correctly) that no one is going to challenge the party leader if he is an incumbent. The last time someone seriously tried this– Ted Kennedy trying to unseat Jimmy Carter– the result was victory for the incumbent and then an electoral loss (to Ronald Reagan in 1979).
One cannot ignore the fact that Biden, and Trudeau, in Canada, are both convinced that they and only they can lead their parties into the next election. What astounding egos! It is mind-boggling when there is such overwhelming evidence that both of them might very well, in fact, ensure the election of the most dangerous and incompetent opposing candidates in fifty years.