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.
Opposition to one policy is more than opposition to literally nothing.
All I know is the norms went out the window under Trump. I’m willing to bet it’ll be even worse in his second term and Democrats will revolt.
“After Hitler, us!”
Except the choice is between Hitler and Pinochet so…
Putting aside that Biden is not even close to Pinochet…
That’s not even a fucking choice.
If your thinking is that “30 million dead, millions raped, a continent in ruins, a genocide campaign so horrible that it has become a byword for atrocity, regime only overthrown by a literal world war”, is better than or equal to “Thousands dead, tens of thousands tortured, regime eventually overthrown by democratic means”, you’re beyond fucking help.
My point is if our only two choices are genocide lite and genocide deluxe, the American experiment is a failure and we have to start over. I will not vote for genocide again. I’d rather kill myself, I fucking deserve it for voting for this demon the first time.
(also I just can’t spell Mousillini)