The Trump farce is America’s tragedy

We’ve just found out the core message of Joe Biden’s re-election campaign. It is the same as his original election message: I’m not Donald Trump, who, if re-elected, will be Hitler 2.0. This is a message destined to inspire the Democrats’ base and MSNBC viewers but suffers from one obvious constraint. The truth is that we already had four years of Trump, and he wasn’t Hitler 1.0. He was, rather, a Mel Brooks version of Hitler, performative, reactionary and, ultimately, lazy and toothless. All the grim authoritarian threats – his pledge to deport 11 million immigrants, to prosecute Hillary Clinton, to reinstate torture, to abscond with Iraq’s oil – fizzled out in office. He had golden opportunities to go full-dictator: a global pandemic and massive unrest on the streets in the summer of 2020. His response was to hand Covid to Tony Fauci and let the cities burn.

His threat to the republic stems from his belief that he should be above the rule of law; that, as president, he can do anything with ‘TOTAL IMMUNITY’, as he recently said on Truth Social.