Nobody's saying that Trump shouldn't scare people more than Biden. It's the founding creed of every part of the criticism.
However, there are a lot of voters who really freak out at the thought of a guy who isn't all there holding the wheel. Everyone, and I do mean, everyone, has had an old relative that they had to gently tell they aren'…
Nobody's saying that Trump shouldn't scare people more than Biden. It's the founding creed of every part of the criticism.
However, there are a lot of voters who really freak out at the thought of a guy who isn't all there holding the wheel. Everyone, and I do mean, everyone, has had an old relative that they had to gently tell they aren't allowed to drive any more, for their own safety and everyone else on the road. When they see an 81 year old guy "have good days and bad days," that's not a good sign. It doesn't generally get better. It's a sad, but ironclad, part of aging.
And in this case, it's not driving a car, it's giving them the nuclear codes.
So the problem is, there are many voters who are worried that we have a choice between giving the codes to one guy who's actively dangerous due to actual malevolence, and another guy who could be passively dangerous due to age. They're likely to just not vote. Trump won the presidency once on "I don't like either person." This isn't a hypothetical, it's actually happened. So there are critics who believe that Biden should step aside on the chance that, however flawed the prospects of a four month campaign at the last minute, it'll still be better than Biden himself staying in. Many of them feel deceived and see the signs -- that Biden has had the fewest unscripted press conferences of any modern President, for instance -- that his aides likely knew he was starting to fade, even though his 65 mph fastball was still pretty good, and were hiding him from us so we wouldn't see it.
I am, personally, on the fence. I can't deny that the way he's been generally not shown to the public feels a bit sketch. I am very, very skeptical that changing horses this close to an election is going to end well, but I also don't know that keeping the one we've got will end well. I see lots of bad options. And, yes, the other old guy who's actively crazy and malevolent is coming at us like the boulder rolling towards Indiana Jones, and HIS followers are far less reflective about his flaws because he wants to hurt the right people for their tastes. Whether I like it or not, those guys aren't going to change horses.
So... what do we do? I am not convinced that Biden can win. I am not convinced that someone else can win on short notice, either. It IS important that we have a president who can answer the proverbial 3 AM phone call and not mentally look like we just destroyed another Horcrux. I DO have serious questions about whether Biden can make it to 2029.
Nobody's saying that Trump shouldn't scare people more than Biden. It's the founding creed of every part of the criticism.
However, there are a lot of voters who really freak out at the thought of a guy who isn't all there holding the wheel. Everyone, and I do mean, everyone, has had an old relative that they had to gently tell they aren't allowed to drive any more, for their own safety and everyone else on the road. When they see an 81 year old guy "have good days and bad days," that's not a good sign. It doesn't generally get better. It's a sad, but ironclad, part of aging.
And in this case, it's not driving a car, it's giving them the nuclear codes.
So the problem is, there are many voters who are worried that we have a choice between giving the codes to one guy who's actively dangerous due to actual malevolence, and another guy who could be passively dangerous due to age. They're likely to just not vote. Trump won the presidency once on "I don't like either person." This isn't a hypothetical, it's actually happened. So there are critics who believe that Biden should step aside on the chance that, however flawed the prospects of a four month campaign at the last minute, it'll still be better than Biden himself staying in. Many of them feel deceived and see the signs -- that Biden has had the fewest unscripted press conferences of any modern President, for instance -- that his aides likely knew he was starting to fade, even though his 65 mph fastball was still pretty good, and were hiding him from us so we wouldn't see it.
I am, personally, on the fence. I can't deny that the way he's been generally not shown to the public feels a bit sketch. I am very, very skeptical that changing horses this close to an election is going to end well, but I also don't know that keeping the one we've got will end well. I see lots of bad options. And, yes, the other old guy who's actively crazy and malevolent is coming at us like the boulder rolling towards Indiana Jones, and HIS followers are far less reflective about his flaws because he wants to hurt the right people for their tastes. Whether I like it or not, those guys aren't going to change horses.
So... what do we do? I am not convinced that Biden can win. I am not convinced that someone else can win on short notice, either. It IS important that we have a president who can answer the proverbial 3 AM phone call and not mentally look like we just destroyed another Horcrux. I DO have serious questions about whether Biden can make it to 2029.
That's the dilemma.