From the New Republic:
Just Say It, Democrats: Biden Has Been a Great President
His achievements have been nothing short of historic.
Because it is.
Yes, the desire to see the 2024 election as a choice between a normal, stable president versus an erratic thug under indictment in multiple states is seductive. But don’t base a campaign on that contrast. Don’t go into 2024 with the game plan to win because Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy. That’s true, he is, but that’s only making the case that Donald Trump shouldn’t be president. It’s not the reason Joe Biden should be reelected.
Joe Biden should remain president because of his historic level of achievement here at home while standing on the side of freedom versus tyranny in the largest land war in Europe since World War II, a role no American president has played since the Roosevelt-Truman era. Be bold. Walk into this campaign with swagger and confidence and pride.
It’s become a 2024 trope that Donald Trump is the only Republican whom President Biden could beat, and that Biden is the only Democrat whom Trump could defeat. Like a lot of things in politics, it’s true if you accept it. But that acceptance is voluntary. Reject that framing for the industrial political complex bullshit that it is, brought to you by the same class of experts who knew without question that Bill Clinton was dead in June 1992, when he was running third to Ross Perot and George Bush, with 24 percent of the vote.
Stop the nonsense that only a weak opponent gives Joe Biden a chance to win. Read the rest here.
Alicia Menendez, Cornell Blecher and David Jolly had a lively discussion on this article during the last 10 minutes of Deadline White House (MSNBC) on Friday. If you can find it and watch it, it was excellent. I’ve been trying to track it down to no avail. I think eventually it may end up here, but it’s not there yet.
Is Biden perfect? No. Is he a damn good President? Absolutely. Is he better than any of the GOP alternatives? You bet – because even the least repugnant of them still wants to take away your rights: voting, healthcare, body autonomy, separation of church and state, who you can love, to name a few.
This is an open thread