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Anthony Rogers-Wright 15 May 2024

This article is featured in the Black Agenda Report, link here https://www.blackagendareport.com/democrats-have-lost-their-trump-card-study-three-issue-areas. And while I feel that neither Biden or Trump will do much to change the declining course of the United States and it’s policies, foreign or domestic, it is good to read other perspectives on the train wreck

the US presidential election will inevitably be. To me, choosing the lessor of to two evils is still choosing evil.

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The Democrats have used the very old tactic of winning votes out of fear, recently that of the MAGA boogeyman. But this tactic is finally beginning to lose its effect.

Samuel Clemens’ (aka Mark Twain) sage aphorism, “History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” is certainly one of the more accurate ways to describe the Democratic Party’s approach to the 2024 presidential election in that it eerily, though not surprisingly, mimics the neoliberal, corporate party’s methodology during the 2016 election – paint Donald Trump as a megalomaniac demagogue and dictatorial mad man who will unilaterally destroy  “democracy” to generate  so much fear in voters that they would have no other choice but to choose the Democrats. This strategy, of course, failed and resulted in the ignominious defeat of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as well as down ballot Democrats, which handed Trump a “trifecta” government.

Yet, there was and is something even more insidious about this modus operandi; that is, establishing and maintaining, a culture of fear associated with Trump and MAGA Republicans provides the Democrats, in their minds, political and legislative latitudes to do anything they want, no matter how inimical to poor and working people, as well as global stability and peace, and get away with it. After all, as we are observing in real time, most, if not all challenges to, or demonstrations of chagrin for  the Democrats’ legislative and policy agendas are met with reductive and sophomoric retorts along the lines of, “You want Trump? He would be much worse,” followed by some other liberal bullshit along the lines of, “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” building off of one of Biden’s famous one liners, “Don’t compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative.”

Recent polls would indicate that the Democrats’ strategy is far from the apotheosis of electoral politics they would believe. According to a recent survey conducted by the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Siena College, Trump leads Biden in five of six so-called battleground states that will ultimately determine the outcome of the election. Moreover, according to a CNN poll conducted last month, 61% of respondents view Biden’s presidency as a failure. This, in concert with previous polls also showing Trump leading or within the margin of error, showcases major challenges for Biden and the Democrats – the people are comparing him and his party to “the alternative,” and as discussed herein, on many issues, Biden has actually been worse. Let’s take a look at the issues that are currently thought to have a massive influence on the outcomes of federal elections taking place in six months.

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