President Joe Biden gave a speech another speech Last week, he denounced his potential 2024 rival, former President Donald Trump, as a threat to American democracy.
The criminal trial consists of the following four cases. 91 charges The lawsuits brought against Trump by Democratic prosecutors at the state and federal level were initially hailed by Biden supporters among independents and suburban voters as a death knell for the former president.They are praised Trump's rise There was widespread belief among Republican and conservative voters that at least some of the charges were unjustified. partisan And it has no basis in law or fact.
This dual dynamic virtually guaranteed that Mr. Trump would be the Republican nominee and Mr. Biden would most easily lose. like he did in 2020. A reenactment of 2022 when the Democratic Party was in power. successfully intercepted In the Republican primaries for the Senate and Congress, they voted for the least qualified and most extreme Republicans who they believed could defeat them in the general election.
But polls this year have begun to show Trump's strength in a head-to-head matchup with Biden, not only among Republicans but also among unaligned voters, and his campaign is I'm getting more and more worried.
It was caused by a certain reaction. Biden's approval rating is low Maybe the American people weren't fully informed yet about what a great job the president was doing. However, the approach of blaming the messenger had a fatal flaw. Biden himself was the messenger in chief, accepting the word and brandishing it. bidenomics In the face of public dissatisfaction with the economy.
Other advisers thought the strategy may have gone too far, relying on court cases, media reports and President Trump's statements. lots of stupid comments It's meant to demonize him for alleged personal wrongdoing, but not enough to highlight Trump's larger problems. danger to the nation.
Biden's speech last week was was intended To address that existential question.
“Whether democracy remains America’s sacred cause is the most pressing question of our time. That’s what the 2024 election is all about…Donald Trump has destroyed our democracy in order to propel himself into power.” “We are prepared to sacrifice our principles,” the president said.
There is no obvious decrease so far. popularity of playing cards. What's even more puzzling to Biden's advisers is that he hasn't seen any increase in his own status. Biden himself also showed dissatisfaction with his consistently low voting numbers.
The Biden campaign's tactical error in relying too heavily on criminal prosecutions and President Trump's apparent flaws in seeking to oust him are the result of a more fundamental misjudgment about Biden's own standing with the American people. He and his associates believe that Biden's victory in 2020 was somehow a vote of national confidence in Biden, his ideas, and his character, rather than primarily a negative reaction to Trump's record and actions. Was.
As the 2020 campaign unfolds, national polls as well as He lost three straight to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. showed that Biden is wobbling badly despite the advantages of running as Barack Obama's vice president. He has lost two previous presidential elections, the first of which ended in 1988 when he took office. catch decorations his academic background and plagiarize a speech Words from Neil Kinnock, leader of the British Labor Party.
Congressman Jim Clyburn and other moderate and centrist Democrats say Sanders' nomination is self-proclaimed democratic socialist As a progressive activist, he will not be acceptable to the majority of American voters.
Mr. Clyburn, a respected and influential African-American national leader, has launched an emergency political relief campaign for the upcoming primary in his home state of South Carolina, with the majority black population in the state. He called on voters to: Rallying in support of Biden. They did so, turning around the national momentum against Mr. Sanders and then Mr. Trump for the remainder of the campaign.
But 2020 is a special case, and Biden's low approval ratings now simply reflect a continuation of the public's views of Biden in 1988, 2008, and early 2020. No matter what Biden has done over the past three years, the public's constant perception of who he is has not changed. He went out of his depth to take the presidency.
Biden has won all three presidential elections. promoted his foreign policy experience That is his strongest qualification as president.Apparently that was Obama's main reason chose him However, Robert Gates, who served as Secretary of Defense in both the Bush and Obama administrations, wrote in his memoirs Biden “has been wrong on almost every major foreign policy issue for the past 40 years,” he said.
Gates likely witnessed Biden's role as foreign policy guru while sitting in the Obama administration's cabinet. advised against Operation to eliminate Osama bin Laden.Supported setting a “red line” against Bashir al-Assad's regime use of chemical weapons, and ignored their crosses with Assad's defiance. and allowed Russia to regain its strategic foothold in the Middle East. war crime itself in syria.Biden also holds himself and Obama accountable. disastrous nuclear deal with Iran; It strengthened its strategic position in terms of both military capabilities and intentions and liberated Tehran. enable terrorist proxies — Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis — to wreak havoc on Israeli and U.S. interests in the region.
Mr. Biden himself acknowledged that he had been poor in his judgment on important national security issues, saying: in retrospect He wished he had voted for the first Gulf War and not against the second. His record in office has largely been a record of failed foreign policy decisions.His sudden and tragic event Failure to abandon Afghanistan It seriously damaged America's credibility with both friends and adversaries.
Despite his regime boast Despite knowing for months of President Vladimir Putin's plan to invade Ukraine, Biden failed to capitalize on his policy. Boast of Personal relationship with President Putin to prevent invasion.And in the meantime successfully assembled NATO To help Ukraine — after the first I expect Kiev to fall soon. – US strategy is only concerned with preventing the complete collapse of Ukraine, not with defeating and reversing the worst European invasion since World War II.
Meanwhile, America's enemies China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and their allies and proxies around the world are salivating at the prospect of perhaps the most deeply polarized presidential election since just before the Civil War. Both Biden and Trump should show their patriotism by stepping aside.
Joseph Bosco served as the Secretary of Defense's Director of China Affairs from 2005 to 2006 and Director of the Asia-Pacific Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief from 2009 to 2010. He served in the Pentagon when President Vladimir Putin invaded Georgia, and was also involved in the Pentagon. Discussion of the US response. Follow him on Twitter @BoscoJosephA.
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