SEAL Team Six
American democracy took several giant steps closer to the brink last week.
So let me get this straight. One party is running a presidential candidate who has been convicted of 34 felonies, is an adjudicated sex offender, summoned a violent mob to try to overturn a free and fair election, and has promised to be a dictator who would openly shred the Constitution, to list just a few items on his CV. And it’s the OTHER CANDIDATE who is facing cries from his party to step off the ticket?
Now, that may seem like the start to a “Stick with Biden” plea. It’s not. The pro-democracy movement in this country is in a five-alarm emergency. But it is a good starting point for a survey of an absolutely terrible week for the prospect that we will be able to keep the dark night of fascism from descending upon these United States.
Irony Died in Atlanta
There is no denying what happened on the CNN debate stage in Atlanta last Thursday night.
For many months the Republican Party has been painting an outrageous portrait of Joe Biden as doddering and infirm and not mentally sharp enough to be leader of the so-called Free World. I have long been among those dismissing that as pure propaganda. But Biden’s performance was an enormous gift to Trump and GOP, confirming their caricature of him in front of some 51 million viewers…
