Yeah, Trump is saying that he might not even bother with the GOP Presidential debates. I’ll get to that separately.
But now I see the Democrats are talking about canceling the Democrat presidential debates for the primaries altogether.
Let’s look at the big picture for the Democrats.
I’ve been saying it for a long time now, the last 6 years should be an extinction level event for the Democrats. Unfortunately Justice in this kind of thing takes so long to dig up and the American political memory is so short as to make all of it moot in the end, at least in terms of consequences for the guilty.
A number of people that I speak with in the Republican party and outside of it as well, all seem to have the same question on their minds these days… “how does one overcome in the short term that level of sheer stupidity”
Personally, I’m afraid that after 6 years or so of the narrative being built, there won’t be an “aha moment”, where the whole thing just falls apart.
There won\’t be any tearing down of that narrative in the short term.
Put another way, there won’t be a pitchfork and torch moment in our immediate future, particularly given the preemptive strike that the Democrats arranged on January 6th which the evidence is increasingly showing as a false flag operation.
One can understand why they are contemplating this, when one looks at any of the public appearances that Uncle Creepy has made over the past 3 years. It also makes sense when you understand that almost literally he didn’t campaign at all referring instead to stay in his basement, rather like a woke 20 -something.
It does seem clear to me that the reason for all of this is the desire of the Democrats to not have the top of their ticket humiliate himself, would he certainly would do in any possible public appearance.
With something on the order of 35% of Democrats saying they don’t want Uncle Creepy to run for a second term, this move to eliminate presidential debates on the Democrat side is not going over well with the Democrat rank and file. One can’t help but Wonder what effect that is going to have with how they vote in the general election.
One of the things that is certain to come up in any primary debate is the fact that Joe Biden is now the oldest person ever to throw his head in the presidential race as it were. Among other things, that means that Kamala Harris is in reality running for the office of POTUS. Any reminder of that fact is going to go over large with Independents and a large number of Democrats, Harris being one of the few people on the planet who was a larger embarrassment than Joe Biden.
Any lack in debate performance and itwould become clear to Republicans Independence and a large number of Democrats that putting Joe Biden in the White House again especially with the prospect of Kamala Harris taking over the reins when Joe finally kicks, is tatamount to National suicide.
Granted, there are a number of Democrats who would like to see that suicide happen, but my read is that the number is small enough so as to make a Trump landslide inevitable, and that Landslide would be of a size and scope so as to me Reagan’s to landslides look like small potatoes.
On the GOP side of this coin things are a little bit different.
No matter how you slice it there is nobody else that’s even close in the polls to Donald trump. Even in a theoretical matchup between Governor DeSantis and Donald Trump, Trump wins that one going away something on the order of 75%. So at least in terms of appearances, Trump has got this one right when he labels any primary debates amongst Republicans as a waste of time.
Yes, it’s true, Donald Trump has never been the best of public speakers. But unlike Mr Biden he at least has the ability to string together a coherence sentence occasionally. And in any event, it’s also true that is public speaking has never affected his popularity.
On the whole, this is a unique situation… It’s the first time in recent memory that the two people that will end up running for POTUS in the general election are running on their individual work records. Not just on what they say they’re going to do, but their records of accomplishments the last time they were in that office. By that measure, Uncle Creepy is going to have a difficult time of it convincing even many Democrats that he should be given the office again.
Given those respective work records, there’s going to be a lot of Democrats and most Independents, who will find themselves hard-pressed to pull the lever for Biden. There is no motivation there, and I doubt there will be by the time the next election goes around.
Oh certainly, a lot can happen in the roughly year and a half between now and the next election. But the past that, idea, the election seems to be already laid out rather clearly.
