Opinion writers at Bloomberg and other liberal publications appear to share at least one thing in common with President Joe Biden. It is the feeling that democracy is safe as long as the right candidate wins. As it turned out, the right candidate happened to be an establishment liberal.
The return of “the unthinkable”
On Sunday, Tobin Harshaw, senior editor at Bloomberg Opinion, will be summarizing the disparate opinions aired in the magazine over the past week and trying to find common threads among them. This Sunday, in a wrap-up titled “.2024 is an election year and it’s a threat to democracy” Harshaw exposed the team’s disdain for the democratic process, which disadvantaged the liberal status quo.
These include India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Russia, Mexico, Iran, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Austria, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, and possibly Ukraine.
64 countries Elections will be held this year along with the European Union.
“41% of the world's population will have a major election this year. Yay, democracy! Right?” Harshaw wrote. “That's not the case. From the European Union to the Pacific Rim, extremist populist parties, mostly on the right, are on the rise.”
Harshaw is
weekend works The paper, by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, denounces the restoration of British sovereignty through the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and Brexit with the EU as “unthinkable,” and argues that the 2024 world suggested that it was “almost a mirror image of 2016.”
“This year's elections will see voters in countries representing 41% of the world's population go to the polls, and in a frightening number of cases, the most likely candidates will be those who were seen as extremist wildcards in 2016. ,” the paper wrote. Bloomberg duo.
“Big plans that were unthinkable eight years ago are now firm favorites, or simply accepted status quos,” Micklethwait and Wooldridge write. “Bookmakers give Trump a 40% chance of winning the November presidential election. His closest rival, Joe Biden, is 81 years old and prone to gaffes and memory loss, making him the perfect candidate for a modern-day marathon. Trump's desired rival in the presidential election. ”
Candidates aren't just hated by the Washington establishment and liberal media;
Ready He is expected to win the 2024 presidential election, but right-wing populists such as Dutch prime ministerial candidate Geert Wilders and French prime ministerial candidate are further afield. marine le pen —Unfortunately for liberal bystanders in the media, they too prevail.
The Bloomberg pair suggested that optimists might be satisfied to know that there is a 10% chance that the day will see a “better chance.” In the case of the US election, they floated the names of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) and Nikki Haley as so-called “benign” options.
Voters also threaten island nation Taiwan's democracy, after Harshaw hinted that the basic requirement for things to be “okay” in 2024 is for “someone other than Trump to be elected president of the United States.” He pointed out that there is a possibility. The Democratic Party may bring the region closer to Chinese invasion. ”
The leader of the Democratic Progressive Party, Kiyotori Lai, current vice president,
called For the Chinese regime, he is a “complete troublemaker.”
To give Bloomberg's opinion team a “surprisingly good year,” voters said “America will celebrate the birth of its first female president, Trump and Netanyahu will spend more time with their lawyers, and the U.S. and China will You'll need to be confident that you'll spend more time on it. There is no more time to repair economic relations and less time to spend shadow boxing against Taiwan. [British leftist Keir] starmer will start [reunification] Negotiations with the EU. Israelis and Palestinians will have serious talks for the first time in decades. Then one of the world's most evil dictatorships will fall. ”
bird of a feather
The Atlantic is another fear-mongering liberal, concerned that voters may not give the establishment what Mr. Harshaw calls a “good year.”
Atlantic contributor Brian Klaas said:
was suggested “Despite this large number of votes, democracy is under serious threat, with predatory politicians rigging elections and attempts to hand power over to authoritarian leaders,” he said on Saturday. “They are at risk from dissatisfied voters.” Klaas even came up with the term “false democracy” to describe the tendency of democratic elections to produce results he dislikes.
Klaas said the decision to seek redress for bad leadership at the polls symbolizes the erosion of democracy.
Rather than relying on the “stolen election” rhetoric that failed Democratic candidates Stacey Abrams and Hillary Clinton have deployed in recent years, Klaas said democracy's failings are due to “harmful He suggested that this is due to a cycle of dysfunctional governance and politicians not working for their constituents. And voters are responding to these failures by pondering whether authoritarian rule is better. ”
“Billions of ordinary people around the world will vote this year,” the Atlantic contributor wrote. “If they make the wrong choice, 2024 may be remembered as the year the world accepted elections without democracy.”
Campaigns based on themes
The democratic rhetoric deployed in The Atlantic and Bloomberg articles has become central to Biden's re-election campaign.
Last month, within hours of Democratic advocacy groups removing his top rival from the primary ballot, Biden tweeted: “Trump is destroying our country, including the right to choose, civil rights, voting rights, and America's place in the world.” It poses many threats,” he tweeted. ”
“But the greatest threat he poses is to our democracy,” Biden continued. “If you lose that, you lose everything.”
In his first major election campaign of 2024, Biden
Said“America, as we begin this election year, let us be clear: Democracy is on the ballot. Your freedom is on the ballot.”
While Biden insisted that “democracy is about being able to bring about peaceful change,” he also hinted that voters' decision to change the person in the White House could mean the end of democracy.
The Biden campaign is also using the suggestion in a new 2024 campaign ad for the aging candidate.
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