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Joe Biden’s Ability To Beat Trump Is Only The SECOND Most Important Aspect Of His Candidacy
Most discussions surrounding Joe Biden’s candidacy center on his having the best chance of beating Trump. This is striking to me because it glosses over the most salient feature of his candidacy: The fact that Biden is the person best equipped to clean up the mess created by Donald Trump.
And what a mess it is. In a little over three years Trump has:
-weakened Americans’ trust in the press
-cast suspicion on the FBI
-turned the Justice Department into his own personal law firm, led by managing partner William Barr
-eviscerated Congress’s constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the executive branch
-exacted grave damage on America’s relationships with critical allies like Germany and Great Britain
-undermined the strongest and most important strategic alliance in world history (NATO), to the delight of our mortal enemy Russia
-and coddled the world’s most nefarious dictators (Putin, Kim Jong Un, Duterte, Erdogan, el-Sisi…it’s a long list and I don’t have the space.)
Righting the ship of America after this storm Trump has wrought will be enormously difficult. But Joe Biden is the person…
