A Joe Biden Presidency Will Require Mass Protests, Too
Donald Trump’s dangerous and unhinged response to the George Floyd protests shows why he must be defeated in November. But Joe Biden’s policy proposals and disturbing record on criminal justice suggests the era of resistance will have to continue with Biden in the White House.
US president Barack Obama and vice president Joe Biden pose for photographs with the 2014 National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) TOP COPS award winners in the East Room of the White House May 12, 2014 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla / Getty
The past week’s protests, and Donald Trump’s and other Republicans’ despotic response to them, make electoral defeat for the president and his party a more urgent priority than ever. But there is a real danger that well-meaning liberals — taught by cable news and other Democratic Party authorities that Trump is the fountainhead of all that is wrong with the country and that Joe Biden his antithesis — will end up pulling the lever for Democrats, then will promptly go to brunch for four years, laying the groundwork for something even more dangerous to come.
As Trump careened between threats and obscene photo ops, Biden gave a well-written speech on Tuesday about the president’s behavior, the protests, racism, and what he plans to do in his first year, earning him plaudits and a flood of donations.
“As unrest grips the U.S., Trump fuels a fire Biden pledges to extinguish,” wrote NBC news.
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