The Coming Election

 

Joe Biden is a bad president. He is a dishonest, lying, unprincipled party hack and scoundrel, as his record over several decades makes obvious. He shows evidence of being in some stage of at least intermittent dementia. He and his administration are in bed with some really bad people on the green left and the bigoted DEI left. If he is reelected and gets some of the things he wants, it would make people’s lives worse. Electric power would become less reliable, and it would become harder or impossible to buy the car or appliances one would like. (If Biden wins, it might be a good idea to buy a backup generator, purchase and store for future use functional, affordable appliances while one can, and maybe trade for a new car a little sooner than usual and plan to keep it a long time.) The problems coming from the immigration of too many poor and unskilled people into a welfare state would get worse. Higher taxes and more regulations would make the country poorer than it would be otherwise. Increased spending by the government would add more to the dangerously high federal debt. The nanny state would become more intrusive and obnoxious, and the IRS, the EPA, the FBI, and the rest of the gang more nearly unrestrained. Yet with all that, Biden should be the preferred choice in November.

That is how bad Donald Trump is. He should never be considered for any public office in the United States. He is an arrogant, vulgar, bullying, graceless, power mad ignoramus, and he doesn’t hide that fact. From December 14^th 2000 to January 6^th ,2001, he functioned as an enemy of the republic, conspiring and attempting to overthrow the government and remain in power illegally and unconstitutionally. The rally and riot of January 6^th had no other purpose. His order to Pence to change the results of the election was by itself an attempted coup. In 2022 he called in writing for overturning the Constitution and returning him to power immediately. He has made it clear lately that he regrets nothing about the attempted coup except that it failed. He has repeatedly and apparently sincerely expressed his admiration and affection for the world’s dictators. It is likely he would abandon Ukraine to Putin, effectively abandon NATO, and throw away much of our victory in the cold war. His vile demagoguery takes the country’s already low level of civility in politics lower. He has demanded full immunity from any crimes he might want to commit when back in office (including murdering political opponents according to his lawyers). He shows no sense of being or wanting to be bound by laws or the Constitution. His vice president has refused to support him for another term. Other serious and decent people who worked with him in his first administration have warned that he is dangerously unfit to serve, something we have not seen when other presidents of either party have tried for a second term.

People who revere the Constitution should not vote for a man who disdains it and wants to overturn it. People who believe in limited government should not vote for a man who demands unlimited power. People who think this country needs to work with trusting allies to defend itself and freedom and liberal democracy in the world should not vote for a man who doesn’t. Republicans and others who usually vote for Republican candidates for president should grit their teeth and realize that between the two choices they have, Biden is the right one. They also can work for Republican majorities in both houses of congress to mitigate the damage Biden can do, something which is a good idea since Biden 2.0 may need all the mitigating we can find.