Any system of government that pits a vengeful crook against a fading old-timer is not working well
The Democrats’ Biden dilemma is one side of a coin that promises to produce America’s weirdest electoral toss-up ever. Heads: an elderly man showing unmistakeable signs of mental and physical deterioration. Tails: a liar, cheat andJust as Democrats appear stuck with Biden, so too are moderate Republicans and independents stuck with Trump as probable GOP nominee. Trump faces 91 criminal charges. If there is any justice, he’ll go down.
All of which points to a larger question overshadowing the 2024 election: is the US constitution still fit for purpose? It’s an odd kind of democracy where the winner of the most votes is denied victory, as Clinton and Al Gore discovered.
Given all that is at stake, Biden and Trump should both stand down. That would electrify the decaying body politic. It would throw the contest wide open to fresh leaders,, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate. It would be a life-giving shot in the arm for a country “stagnating under the death grip of the gerontocracy,” in commentator Michelle Goldberg’s words.
It is not going to happen, as things stand, but it really should. Like its two principal protagonists, democracy in America is down on its creaking, aching knees – and that is doubly dangerous for Americans and the world.
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