Biden-Trump debate: the stakes could not be higher
President Biden will not be showing up for a debate, but rather a showdown. There is nothing to debate — only a dire menace to be confronted.
Donald Trump is an abomination. The confrontation is long past due. According to Axios, the Biden campaign is built around the conviction that:
Joe Biden is a great president, and great presidents get reelected.
Democracy is the core issue, and January 6 is the defining event illustrating the danger of a rising extremism.
Some years ago, I said the following while appearing on MSNBC:
Fascism rose in the 1930s not because it was strong, but because democracy was weak.
Trump is running a campaign targeting Biden as weak, feeble, senile and corrupt. It is merciless, relentless and unrebutted. The time has come when the smear will be rebutted or confirmed. The singular issue at hand is strength.
Let’s imagine that President Biden’s strategy of placing democracy at the center of the campaign is the right thing to do. It should not be a huge leap to understand that the defense of democracy cannot be feeble, absent or decrepit. Instead, it must be passionate, vigorous, righteous and strong. The American position must be asserted with confidence and conviction, but also with some measure of eloquence and purpose.
A few days ago, there was a despicable vote in the United States Congress that sought to desecrate Arlington National Cemetery with the raising of a Confederate Memorial depicting a treasonous soldier kissing his baby goodbye, held in the arms of his enslaved “mammy” with his personal slave behind him, ready to head off to destroy the United States. There is no need to debate any of this. What this requires is condemnation and confrontation because the issue isn’t right or left. It is right and wrong.
The American people love a good showdown. President Biden should get that he is walking into a non-lethal version of the OK Corral, and he best be ready for a fight.
The whole country and whole world is about to examine Joe Biden very closely. The American people are going to see what Xi, Putin, and every other world leader sees. The hour has come when Joe Biden will either demolish Donald Trump’s smears, or be overcome by them. The stakes of this debate are enormous. It is no exaggeration to say that it is the most important televised political event between presidential candidates possibly ever.
Donald Trump is a grave threat towards democracy, but he is running against feebleness, while simultaneously playing the victim for a coalition of malice and grievance that believes in personal responsibility — like Matt Gaetz believes in the age of consent. It is an outrageous spectacle, but for the vast majority of people, feebleness is a threshold issue and a metaphor for the state of American democracy. The MAGA proposition in the end is that both Biden and democracy are feeble. This is what the CNN showdown is singularly about. It is an old-fashioned showdown about the greatest idea in human history, which is the United States of America.
President Joe Biden is called to defend the republic against its greatest threat since the Confederacy and fascism. He must face down a determined domestic enemy who betrayed his constitutional oath, and assaulted the peaceful transition of power in a coup attempt that must be rebuked, lest we lose our freedom. It is as simple as that.
The stakes could not be higher.
I am looking forward to a Joe Biden as articulate and sharp as he was during the State of the Union Address. However, I want him to be more aggressive and concentrate on explaining how autocracy is not in the interests of the American people; coupled with an unfit, uninformed, narcissistic dictator it would be a disaster.
There is so much material to choose from to prove this is true. As one example, when Trump said COVID would "magically" disappear and suggested quack cures, he clearly showed weak "wishful thinking" and a desperate attempt to make his administration look effective. He accomplished just the opposite and then besmirched one of the most selfless, honest, and moral individuals in our history, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
He has openly stated he will be a dictator, emphasizing the prosecution, read persecution, of his political enemies, I.e, anyone who refuses to swear absolute loyalty to the "golden calf" while simultaneously kissing his fat ass.
I agree. Joe showed up for the State of the Union address. He was on point! I expect the same at this debate. I expect to see him show Americans the difference between competence and ugly. It will matter to independents, I reckon… and to any anti-Trump Republicans…maybe. Any “uncommitted” aren’t voting or they’re just telling pollsters a bunch of bs. No one is “uncommitted”. Not this year.