The first (and likely only) Presidential Debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden has preoccupied the pundits over the past week or so. The sad spectacle of Biden’s obvious senility and shuffling gait was a shock to those who had bought into the legacy media propaganda that he was as sharp and spry as a sixteen year old. For other voters it only confirmed what they already suspected: Biden is too slow, too confused, and too old. Plans to replace him atop the Democratic ticket will continue to ricochet from now to the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Every confused stare and gaffe will be analyzed and re-analyzed for some fleeting signs of elusive mental acuity or continuing decline, but the fact of the matter is that Democrats are now stuck dealing with a self-created mess that has the potential to be a down-ballot disaster.
A brokered Convention in Chicago (should circumstances rapidly progress from Code Red to Code Brown), coupled with the uncomfortable need to ease Biden’s flagrantly unqualified (but Black and female) Vice President off the stage somehow, which will infuriate the purveyors of identity politics that dominate the Democrats today, will perhaps fatally fracture the tattered remnants of the so-called Obama Coalition and strengthen the hand of Donald Trump and the Republican Party going into November.
The palace plotting has taken on a quality that would make a Borgia proud. Everything from Barack Obama accepting a nomination as Vice President with Kamala Harris on top (a notion that might barely pass Constitutional muster but whose conspicuous chicanery will still alienate many voters), pushing Sonia Sotomayor into retirement so that Biden can appoint Harris to the Supreme Court and clear the path for a more acceptable Democratic candidate, to steamrolling a potential Harris nomination by pushing a Hillary Clinton rematch with Donald Trump has been suggested since CNN turned off the lights on the debate stage. It is perhaps a sign of the desperation now gripping Democrats that such absurdities are even on the table, and the only certainty we now can point to as they weave toward the Convention roll call in Chicago in August is that nothing is certain but dread and fear over their electoral chances with a senile old man carrying the flag (hopefully, the right-side up) for the Democratic Party.
Meanwhile, as Democrats were busily setting their own hair on fire, Donald Trump enjoyed a very, very good week. Polls show him solidifying his lead in the swing states he will need to win, the already flailing attempts of Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, and Fani Willis to unleash lawfare on him have likely been dealt a death blow by the Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity decision, and his own debate performance (which mostly involved shutting up and letting Biden fumble and stumble ) was seen as strong and reassuring. The bounce he has enjoyed must be driving Democrats insane, and the now open secret of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is going to continue to be a festering problem as they try to hold the growing legions of doubters in line leading up to the Convention.
Of course, the great unasked question in all the tumult of the past week is why Joe Biden was debating Donald Trump at all at this point in time? Presidential debates have historically taken place in the roughly three months that elapse between the times when the Republican and Democratic Conventions anoint their candidates and the general election in the fall.
What was the justification for scheduling a debate over a month before Joe Biden was formally nominated? Especially given what was painfully and obviously revealed to our nation’s voters about his shocking mental and physical decline, which showed our nation’s supposedly sharp and engaged President is just a short step away from spending his days chatting with imaginary friends shaped like giraffes, one has to wonder what the motivation was for putting Biden under the merciless spotlight of a live televised event without a teleprompter—unless it was a trap designed to create the conditions for a candidate switcheroo in Chicago. This early debate clearly did not serve Joe Biden’s best interests, so who benefitted from this train wreck?
It might seem a bit paranoid to wonder whether Joe Biden was set up to fail by conspirators within the Democratic establishment or his own administration who are as yet identified—this all might simply be an example of incredible stupidity and arrogance on the part of his advisors—but, if we have learned anything from history, it is that there is virtually nothing that those with power will not do to keep it. Abnormal events and decisions are always going to invite speculation about the true motivations of those involved, and it could be possible that this recent (and bizarrely early) Biden-Trump debate was designed to push the President of the United States into a not-so-early retirement.
It could, of course, also be the case that someone on the inside decided it was their patriotic duty to pull back the curtain and expose the truth—before it was too late. Perhaps I am an incurable optimist, but history has provided us with many examples of principled individuals willing to defy their masters when they believed the safety and security of their country was at risk. Some person (or persons) might have looked long and hard into their heart and decided saddling our nation with a puppet President whose strings were being pulled by those who cared not for the future of America was a step they simply could not take—and they set the wheels in motion to topple those whom they deemed traitors to our nation.
However, whether Joe Biden’s political career was ended for reasons fair or foul, the outcome will be the same. The election will now be a contest between Donald Trump and (Fill In The Blank), and a new chapter in America’s history—and perhaps a new hope for all citizens—will soon be upon us.