The idea of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object is intriguing to consider—yet the 2024 Democratic primary contest is likely to feature the indescribable opposite: a battle of weak players.
That President Joe Biden will win Democrat Party’s nomination again and govern for four more years is a fiction found only within Washington, D.C., with the believability of that fable falling off the further one gets from the White House. Yet it is a lie that many force themselves to swallow lest Biden become a lame duck before his time.
With team Biden not likely to make a concession to the harsh truth of cognitive decline—remember, these are the people who think Senators John Fetterman and Dianne Feinstein should be on the job—the operative Democrat nomination timeline will be thrown into doubt and shortened. This places a premium on the few Democrats with name ID who can raise money.
That means Hillary Clinton, who would be 77 on Election Day, might give it another try, but only if Biden formally declines the opportunity to run again.
NEWSOM’S CALIFORNIA PUSHES BILLIONS IN REPARATIONS PAYMENTS AS STATE FACES BUDGET DEFICIT DISASTER
Regardless of Biden’s announced intent, the race will likely see the entrance of California Governor Gavin Newsom. Newsom, now 55, just won his second and last term in 2022, meaning he’ll have a free ride to run in 2024 but risks a slide into irrelevancy if he waits until 2028.
Gavin Newsom’s practice of politics is a near-perfect example of the modern, performative variety where words smother deeds, intent overrides results, and theatrics overcomes virtue—if, by virtue, one means the excellence of wisdom, bravery, justice, moderation, and piety.
As his state was being battered by a series of winter storms that killed dozens, including many who were snowed in, Newsom popped down to Mexico for a week on Baja’s beaches only to return with a tan and COVID-19. The domestic corporate media were predictably uninterested in…
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