Old age is a special and wonderful condition, with all its ailments and mental vagueness. Even reduced to the state we saw in Atlanta, Biden is worth a hundred times Trump, a shady liar who enchants the worst America, a bunch of deplorables, an immense plague of outcasts who aspire to power for an insurrectionist delinquent in the name of their conspiratorial nightmares, strong and wrong as Bill Clinton said. But this is a moral judgement, almost a religious sentence, but states are not conducted with paternosters, we have known this since the sixteenth century. The lies and strong poses, which promise a non-existent and threatening future, prevail over the excellent balance sheet of a presidency at the end of its life, and we must come to terms with it.
Old age is a special and wonderful condition, with all its ailments and mental vagueness. Even reduced as we saw it in Atlanta, Biden is worth a hundred times Trump, shady liar who enchants the worst of America, a bunch of deplorables, an immense crowd of outcasts who aspire to power for an insurrectionist criminal in the name of their conspiracy nightmares, strong and wrong as Bill Clinton said. But this is a moral judgement, almost a religious sentence, but states are not conducted with paternosterswe have known since the sixteenth century. The lies and the strong poses, which promise a non-existent and threatening future, prevail over the excellent balance of a presidency at the end of its age, and we must come to terms with it.
Michelle Obama was in the White House for eight years, four more than Trump, with her husband and with Biden. Woman, black, energetic, charismatic and much younger than her possible sexist, chauvinist, racist and corrupt competitor to the core. Above all Michelle she can reconstitute a democratic dream with realistic foundations, heir to the excessive moderation of her pragmatic husbandof the ideals, even if fake but productive, that she embodied, of her workist style that is now a fixed component of the American opinion landscape. If she were invested by acclamation to the convention di Chicagothe battle would be reopened with a good chance of victory, better than with any candidate even perfect but relatively unknown. The argument of the white overtaking of Kamala Harris, the vice president who is not able to beat Trump, according to all the polls, would fall away. Trump would suddenly age and become rancid in the blink of an eye. It would be a battle about the future, plus for Michelle the ability to articulate with feminine and ethnic minority fury the results of the old politician surpassed by his years. Only a dream, although one would gladly do without the dreamlike clashes in the leading country of the West, could beat the nightmares on which The Donald lives and thrives.
It would be a clash between the dark and unconstitutional sociological verisimilitude of an authoritarian man by instinct and sad passion and the hope in renewal and in tomorrow so typical of an American mentality that perhaps survives, if that torch were not hidden under the abusive bushel of manipulation due to a ribald arrogance mockingly deployed against a physical decadence.
Biden should have tried, he is the incumbent, he has a notable effective budget, he is a wartime president involved on several dramatic fronts, it is a sign of superficiality to reproach him and his followers for having tried. Yet now a change of horse is urgently neededand the investiture of a universally known woman, a star who needs no introduction, who can unleash, with all her limitations, a recovery that America and the world need. With the Biden team and her endorsement behind her, Michelle can kick Trump’s ass. There are no credible alternatives in sight. She just has to try with love and conviction, and with the unity of the Democrats in support.
