If you worked in the White House, how many times did you see the president’s dog biting a Secret Service agent or other employee before you realized there was a serious problem and keeping a large, aggressive dog locked up in the White House? Would you conclude that it shouldn’t? House?
Because it’s 25 times It feels like there are a lot.
However, it was not until October, after more than 20 attacks, that the commander was finally ousted. It’s an unusual situation for Cujo to be pulled by the presidential dog, but everyone in this White House seems to have no choice but to pretend that something is clearly, undeniably, undeniable going on. Incorrect Not noticeable at all.
Similarly, let’s act in a way that doesn’t undermine the president’s advanced age.
We see the Democratic Party in the same dire situation that the good Republicans have been in since 2016 with Donald Trump. You have to act as if a very abnormal situation is completely normal.
The level of pretense will be even more intense this election cycle because of Mr. Trump’s indictment and the more dangerous world we live in. Barring a miraculous comeback from Nikki Haley, Republicans will have to act as if this is completely normal for a 78-year-old candidate. He boasted that he would encourage Russia to “do whatever they wanted” to NATO members who he felt were not contributing enough financially to the organization, and that he was trying to solve his own legal problems. He compared it to Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison. We’re talking about militarized mass deportations and concentration camps.
Trump is a very unusual person with a very unusual worldview, personality, agenda, and set of priorities.
But the incumbent…is not as normal as he and his allies would like everyone to believe. For the next eight months or so, Democrats will continue to believe that it is completely normal and perfectly reasonable to believe that an 81-year-old man who is becoming increasingly infirm is running for a second term as president. You will have to act as if you are a target. In the fall of 2028, a fit and healthy Biden, approaching 86, will still be president.
For a man in his 80s to continue working in one of the world’s toughest jobs for another four years is highly unusual and, in fact, unprecedented. In 1984, when President Ronald Reagan was running for re-election against Walter Mondale, the Post’s headline was “Age Emerged as New Campaign Issue.” “Democrats, usually sensitive to raising the issue, openly suggested that at 73 years old, President Reagan might be too old to serve another four years in prison,” the newspaper reported. Would you still like to nominate a 73-year-old candidate this term?
Notably, since the beginning of Biden’s presidency, he, First Lady Jill Biden, and other Biden aides have acted as if it were ridiculous for the 81-year-old president to even suggest he would not run for a second term. That’s what happened. In 2019, Biden’s aides debated whether candidates should commit to only one term, and during a campaign campaign in March 2020, Biden described himself as a “bridge” to a younger generation of Democratic leaders. There’s no need to worry about him saying that he thinks so. Apparently, that bridge will be expanded.
Everyone is aware that the abnormal is the new normal in American politics. A CNN poll conducted in late January found that 63% of Americans think President Trump is “too extreme.” including 33 percent of self-identified Republicans.. Fifty-three percent of Democrats said they believed the Democratic Party would have a better chance of winning the presidency if someone other than Biden became the party’s nominee. What this month’s ABC News/Ipsos poll reveals 73 percent of Democrats I think Biden is too old to serve a second term. However, both candidates are focused on winning their party’s nomination.
No one would think it normal for these two grumpy old men to vie for the White House. But apparently both major political parties want us to look away, even though the candidates’ flaws are as hard to ignore as German shepherds attacking secrets (Biden and Trump’s trainers). Service agents seem to think they’ll turn a blind eye (as they do).