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: Althouse

"And you know, Biden, he can?t stand up to the lunatics running his party. He can?t even find his way off the stage without them."

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"Look what?s happened. Yesterday, he didn?t know the name. He said, 'You know the guy, I think he?s a Mormon, right.' He said, 'He?s a Mormon.' He was talking about Mitt Romney. He forgot Mitt Romney?s name. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine. Then he didn?t know where he was. He said, 'Where the hell am I? Where am I?' No, he?s shot folks. He?s shot. I?m running against the single worst candidate in the history of presidential politics. And you know what that does? That puts more pressure on me. Can you imagine if you lose to a guy like this? It?s unbelievable. It?s disgusting. It?s disgraceful. If he wins, the radical left will be running the country. He won?t be running the country. The radical left will take over."

Said President Trump at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania yesterday. Transcript here.

Trump reveals his own inner turmoil: "It?s unbelievable. It?s disgusting. It?s disgraceful." That refers himself. He wants to be a winner, but he is not only losing (apparently) but losing to "the single worst candidate in the history of presidential politics." That's really really losing. Unbelievable! Disgusting! Disgraceful! Even if he ekes out a win ? why was it close? It should have been a landslide with such a pathetically bad opponent. It's got to hurt. But he's out there on the stage showing you his wounds. There's something phenomenally energized about that. So optimistic... or oddly distanced. A comic view of life.

But on the way out, he's telling us: The radical left will take over! And that is the message that hits me hardest. Biden may be a fairly mild manifestation of liberalism, but he won't stand up to the left-wing element within the Democratic Party. Are they "running his party"? Maybe not quite yet. Are they "lunatics"? It depends on what counts as "running" the party and ready to "take over" and how you define "lunatic," but I'm afraid of the people of the left. I've been wondering if perhaps those of us who are afraid of American left-wingers would be better off if Biden won, because it might relieve pressure that would otherwise build for the next 4 years. Eventually, a Democratic Party candidate will win the presidency. Would it be better to have this person in 2025 or 2029 ? after 4 or 8 more years of exclusion from power?

How much of an empty figurehead would President Biden be? Was he really incapable of remembering the name Mitt Romney? I looked it up. Here, from Fox News (with video): "You may remember, I got in trouble when we were running against the senator who was a Mormon, the governor, OK?"

Full post as published by Althouse on October 14, 2020 (boomark / email).