Believe it or not, I planned to write the gist of this column before Saturday night. However, a caveat. Unlike the newly christened Republican VP pick, J.D. Vance, I don’t directly blame hyperventilating Democratic rhetoric for last weekend’s attempt on Trump’s life. Responsibility rests with the would-be assassin.
Nevertheless, the party’s off-the-charts argumentation has rankled me for the past year. From the get-go, Biden has framed his campaign as a defence of ‘our democracy’, echoing Britons’ sacred obligation to lock themselves in their cupboards to save ‘our NHS’. For Democrats, what’s at stake in this election is nothing less than the perpetuation of America’s form of government. Donald Trump’s threat is ‘existential’. Trump will revoke the Constitution. Re-elected, he’ll crown himself president for life.
They tend to forget that Trump has already been president, and the world didn’t end
Biden supporters in the media, in the days when Biden had supporters in the media, have snatched snippets of Trump blather out of context, as the president did in his unreassuring (‘Look…! Look…!’) Monday night NBC interview.
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