American voters are trapped in a rematch nobody wants, between former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden. Driving the rematch are a number of factors, one of which is ego: both of them think that they are indispensable.
Only I Can Beat Him. Only I Have Ever Been Allowed To Run.
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
2 Comments. Leave new
I love that the can bears the label of FOOD with that word in quotation marks. As I’ve mentioned (ad nauseam), due to the vagaries of the Electoral College, Biden beat Trump by a 22,500-vote whisker. It was a coin toss, not a blowout, and it came after at least five years of Trump’s continuous, noxious antics. Biden’s main/only selling point is that he isn’t Trump. Know who else isn’t Trump? Me, you, the mailman, … (7.9 billion additional names) … and William Shatner. Everyone except Trump isn’t Trump. That’s Team Biden’s whole sales pitch; he’s literally replaceable by anyone else.
Master Po could see it from 500 paces: Biden’s going to lose. I can’t even begin to imagine what October Surprise the Republicans have simmering on the back burner. Between Biden’s mental acuity issues, the albatross Kamala Harris, a massive bloc of polls, and a litany of other issues, I can’t imagine how the dems are going to generate anything even close to the level of GOTV needed to beat Trump.
Nice bit of dystopian science fantasy, but in reality there is no way to keep them alive, and either, or both, could drop dead any day–not to mention the possibility of “lone,” “deranged,” assassins. ….the 2024 election could end up without either of them, albeit with replacements vetted by their respective factions.