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.
Starting over isn’t a simple transition. It’s a civil war followed by an era of chaotic rebuilding, at best. At worst there’s a total societal collapse that results in a lot of people dying because they can’t get their daily medication – and even more people become incapacitated because of an untreated chronic physical or mental condition.
We need significant reforms. But we also need people to stay alive and well. Reforms will fail unless we have our brighter minds helping.