Is George Bush brave enough to tell voters to back Biden?

For an instant, it looked as if George W. Bush might be an example of integrity all who believe in liberal democracy could grudgingly admire. Last week, he announced his anguish at the police killing of George Floyd. ‘America’s greatest challenge has long been to unite people of very different backgrounds into a single nation of justice and opportunity,’ Bush explained. But African-Americans remained harassed and threatened in their own country.

‘There is a better way,’ Bush sighed as he rose to his peroration. ‘The way of empathy, and shared commitment, and bold action, and a peace rooted in justice. I am confident that together, Americans will choose the better way.’

And then he went and spoilt it all by stopping right there.

The only option for Americans who want ‘a better way’ is to vote to remove Donald Trump and install Joe Biden. Not remove Trump and elect a conservative, who would not preside over the deaths of tens upon tens of thousands, and boast about his TV ratings as he did it. Or