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The Debacle of the Biden-Trump Debate
Self-sabotaging Democrats and the road to the American apocalypse
Imagine that instead of shooting himself in his bunker at the end of WWII, Adolph Hitler was captured, and the Allies put him on trial at Nuremberg.
Yet suppose also what’s inexplicable, which is that the Allies failed to secure Hitler’s comeuppance and poetic justice for the good of humankind, by recruiting a competent prosecutor to prove to Hitler that he’s evil.
On the contrary, suppose the Allied had selected as their prosecutor a bumbling mental patient who could barely string two words together, so that in an excruciating travesty of justice, Hitler comes across as statesmanlike and heroic in the trial, in comparison with the prosecutor, and the Allies seem inept and perhaps even ill-deserving of their victory in the war.
That’s what it was like to have watched the June, 2024 Biden-Trump debate.
You’re confronted with an embodiment of all monstrous affronts to human decency, to reason, empathy, goodwill, and the other humanist virtues, and you long for the day when this horror gets what’s coming to it. Then the day potentially arrives, as the monster steps onto a debate stage, with equal time given to the monstrosity and to the decent man who opposes him, so that each candidate can explain why he deserves to lead the country.
But the decent man, President Joe Biden, is an enfeebled wreck who makes the monster seem ten times as vigorous, rational, and presidential. The monster’s lie-filled hyperreality goes practically unchallenged, storming across the digital superhighways to the accompaniment of Biden’s whispered, incoherent ramblings.
Understand that a ham sandwich, sitting uneaten on the desk in the Oval Office for four years, would do a better job as president than Donald Trump in his second term. This is just because the sandwich would do much less damage. Similarly, experts have shown that if Trump had just invested in the S&P 500 the $400 million inheritance his father smuggled to him, without going into business for himself and acting on his tyrannical instincts, he’d have been richer. If you’re a rampaging barbarian, you see, you won’t destroy yourself by provoking your enemies to…
