ASSESSING THE RELATIVE RISK OF A SECOND BIDEN TERM
The media are obsessed with Biden’s poor performance in the debate last week, and many Democrats (and operatives who aren’t really Democrats) are hand-wringing over the implications of that event. In recognition of the asserted importance of that subject, I offer this assessment of the relative risks to the nation of a second term for Biden vs. Trump.
Risks Under Biden
- Biden may fall asleep during cabinet meetings
- The need for Biden naps and early bedtime may result in shortened works schedules
- Biden may give an embarrassingly poor speech at a public event
Risks Under Trump
- Trump will stop all federal efforts to address climate change
- Trump will stop all federal efforts to protect women’s reproductive rights, and in fact will appoint anti-abortion zealots to judgeships and executive positions
- Trump will extend, and perhaps increase, the huge corporate tax cuts he signed in his first term …which are due to expire in 2025… thereby further increasing the federal debt
- Trump risks economic chaos and violence if he truly follows through on his pledge to round up and deport millions of undocumented residents of the U.S.
- Trump will cease aide to Ukraine and perhaps withdraw from NATO
- Trump will follow the “2025” playbook being developed by the Heritage Foundation, and purge thousands of career civil servants, to replace them with extreme Trump loyalists
- Trump will cut funding and weaken agencies like the EPA and Education Department
- Trump will weaponize the Justice Department to prosecute his enemies and pardon his supporters, such as the January 6th insurrectionists
By all means, lets fully consider the relative risks of supporting Biden to defeat Trump.