Both the president and his reelection campaign are going after his coup-attempting predecessor even before the first GOP primary ballots are cast.
A full year out from the 2024 presidential election and nearly two months before Republicans cast their first primary ballots, President Joe Biden and his campaign are assuming that Donald Trump will be his opponent and have already started reminding voters why they threw him out of office in the first place.
Biden personally has stepped up criticism of his coup-attempting predecessor and is framing the likely rematch as one that will determine the survival of American democracy.
“The same man who said we should terminate the rules and regulations and articles of the Constitution — these are things he said — is now running on a plan to end democracy as we know it,” he said last week at a fundraiser in Chicago.
“This next election is different. It’s more important. There’s more at stake. And we all know why: Because our very democracy is at stake,” he told a San Francisco audience on Wednesday.
Okay but if people switch their vote from Biden to Stein or West or Kennedy then it’ll just guarantee the vote is split between Biden and them and hand the presidency directly to Trump and we both know that’ll just make things worse.
It would take splitting the vote like this for at least a decade for the new party to possibly gain the presidency. Is a decade of unfettered fascist control really going to help anyone?
Pretty optimistic to think they’d still be having elections at that point.
We already had trump. He might still win. Or hell, 2028 when he’s not running against an incumbent. Maybe republicans find a new crazy to rally behind. Basically, this looming threat isnt going anywhere by keeping this status quo, in fact its pretty likely to come to fruition eventually. Its gonna take rallying behind a big shift. Voting in people challenging the whole voting system we have.
“We already had a near impact with fascism once and were fine so let’s just do it again in the hopes it wakes up the liberals into voting for a socialist”
“After Hitler, our turn!” - actual slogan of the Communist Party in Weimar Germany
This often gets ignored or explained away as an observation and not an imperative. It doesn’t change though that they made a fundamental miscalculation that Democracy would persist after Hitler.
Weimar Germany isn’t a lesson about how liberals or communists are the actual fascists – it’s a lesson in what happens when liberals and communists are too engrossed in fighting each other. They used the fascists as a chess piece against the others, instead of uniting against a common enemy. Liberals put Nazis in positions of power to further their goals, and Communists overlooked the danger posed by the Nazis to instead find a way they could benefit.
Thankfully it does seem like most people understand this after 2016. The only holdouts are the couple of people who are very loud online. There’s a reason Democrats held steadfast in the Speaker votes. We understand our divisions pale in comparison to our common enemy.
“liberals voting against fascists are the real fascists btw. People who are fine with fascists winning are the real anti fascists”
We’re not fine. Any metrics i care about have been goin downhill since 2016. They didnt change course in 2020, and would probably worsen in 2024 if trump wins. Or in 2028 if he wins, or 2032, 2036. Might be a 2040 old centrist Hillary vs Trump Jr. I dont see anything good long term with the current voting system.