Already a subscriber?Now that the first general election debate of 2024 has removed any doubt about the necessity of removing President Joe Biden from the Democratic ticket, you will hear a lot of serious liberals make the case for Biden’s removal primarily as a means to defeat Donald Trump., the argument will go, because he’s going to lose the election, and only a different Democrat can save the country from Trumpian misrule.
But it’s also important, especially for those of us who are not Democratic partisans, to emphasise that declining to nominate Biden is essential not just if you hope to avert a second Trump term.It’s essential if you want to protect the country from a second Biden term — from the ways that his obvious deterioration endangers the country that he nominally leads.
The entire global order will be endangered if there is an empty vessel in the Oval Office, a headless superpower in a destabilising world.Back in the days when presidential unfitness was a bit more of a novelty, I made this argument about Trump. Before his election in 2016, I warned that our rivals would be eager to test a president with no experience or self-discipline and that “he need only be himself in order to bring an extended period of risk upon the world”.
A Biden apologist today could even argue that Trump’s first term shows that the American empire can survive an unfit president … except that under Biden, the severity of the geopolitical testing has increased. That’s basically the argument Trump made at the debate: that he was taken more seriously by our rivals, and therefore, the world was more stable on his watch.
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