Biden’s a basket case. Trump’s a sociopath. Now the US is facing the Election From Hell
COMEDIAN Richard Lewis, who died last week, will be laughing from beyond the grave. Best known on this side of the Atlantic as Larry David’s oldest friend in Curb Your Enthusiasm, Lewis’s claim to fame was that he invented the expression ‘(the blank) from hell’.
How many times have you heard someone complain that they’ve just had the ‘journey from hell’ or live next door to the ‘neighbour from hell’?
That’s down to Lewis, who is credited in the Yale Book of Quotations.
His legacy is now set in stone. As of this week, America is officially facing up to the ‘Election From Hell’.
After Super Tuesday, when voters in 16 states chose their respective candidates, it looks an odds-on certainty that November’s presidential contest will be between two men reviled by millions of their own countrymen and women.
Barring the intervention of the Grim Reaper or an assassin’s bullet, November’s election will be a Back To The Future rerun of the 2020 battle between former president Donald Trump and the incumbent Joe Biden.
Trump’s last Republican challenger Nikki Haley dropped out yesterday after winning just one small liberal state, Vermont. Elsewhere, The Donald swept the board.
Republicans are now resigned to Trump again being their standard bearer in November. He commands slavish support from the Make America Great Again crowd, but outright hostility from the more moderate, mainstream wing of his party.
Haley was the last best hope of the Never Trumpers until she crashed and burned on Tuesday night. Whether her supporters can be reconciled into voting for Trump in November remains to be seen.
THE former president is still facing 91 different criminal charges — over hoarding classified documents and allegedly inciting the January 6 ‘insurrection’ in Washington — as the Democratic-dominated Deep State resorts to ‘lawfare’ to stop him regaining the keys to the West Wing. That strategy, though, is falling apart spectacularly. The US supreme court has ruled illegal Colorado’s attempts to keep Trump off the ballot, and will prevent other states doing the same.
Allegations of attempting to steal the vote in Georgia last time round are on the verge of collapse, after it emerged the partisan Democrat prosecutor behind the charges had paid her boyfriend $600,000 out of public funds to investigate Trump.
That case doesn’t seem to have harmed the former president, either. Trump’s miles ahead in Georgia. Every time he’s dragged into court, his ratings rocket. The latest national opinion polls predict Trump would beat Biden, who is now considered too old to be president by eight out of 10 voters. Democrats have been fantasising that Biden might step down in favour of a more appealing, younger candidate. Their dream ticket would be Michelle Obama, but yesterday she finally ruled herself out.
That came as no real surprise. She had earlier told a Netflix special that she had no interest in following her husband into politics: ‘It’s not in my soul.’
Unfortunately for America, politics is in Biden’s soul — to the exclusion of all else. The president is adamant he’s not going anywhere, even though he increasingly gives the impression of not knowing where he is, or what day of the week it is.
He froze at a press conference on Tuesday, telling reporters: ‘I better not start the questions. I’ll get in trouble,’ staring gormlessly into space, and muttering something inaudible before being led off stage by a minder.
AS I wrote recently, Biden has been away with the fairies for years. Sleepy Uncle Joe can barely put one foot in front of the other without falling on his face. We’ve seen him stumbling up the steps of Air Force One, falling off a bike, tumbling off stage, and wandering off into the bushes after disembarking from the presidential helicopter.
Last month, a special prosecutor investigating Biden’s hoarding of classified documents in his garage decided against bringing charges because he considered the president too senile to stand trial.
Though Biden won most Democratic primaries by default this week, it has not gone unnoticed that he managed to lose American Samoa by 11 votes to an unknown. If he can’t win Samoa, what chance has got of winning the White House in November? Despite his obvious unsuitability for office and dwindling mental acuity, up until now the Democrats have lacked the ruthlessness to remove him. Vice president Kamala Harris has been putting herself about lately, but she is even more unpopular than Biden.
Alternative candidates such as California governor Gavin Newsom and Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer may have already decided it is better to sit out this election, rather than risk losing to Trump.
Yesterday, Nikki Haley, the last Republican standing, refused to endorse Trump. He won’t care.
Short of a seismic ‘black swan’ event between now and November, America faces a depressing choice between an 81-year-old basket case and a 77-year-old sociopath, who by then could yet be behind bars and whom his opponents claim is ‘literally Hitler’. It is likely to be the nastiest presidential campaign ever.
Get set for the Election From Hell.