Last night's debate turned the candidate dilemma into a crisis. Trump's energetic lies versus Biden's feeble truth is a catastrophe for America and the free world. A raving crook with no self-control and a shadow of a man being treated cruelly by those around him. 1/11
The people who have propped Biden up as a candidate to maintain their own power are accessories to the murder of US democracy and should be held accountable. If you can't walk or talk, you shouldn't run. 2/11
Biden's weakness helped make Trump II possible. A stronger Dem would have given a big boost to Haley. I lived through this with the ailing Yeltsin in 1996. Instead of allowing stronger candidates we got, "But only Yeltsin can beat Zyuganov!" 3/11
So we have two candidates whose ages rival their disapproval numbers. Substance matters, and Trump's lies per minute were off the chart as usual. He is unfit for a dozen reasons, from his Covid response to January 6 to Ukraine blackmail to a long list of crimes & corruption. 4/11
The mic mute button saved Trump from himself. He held it together for maybe 15m and then it was back to the flood of incoherent lies that his rally audiences love. The celebratory mood at Fox News last night was unwarranted. It's a disgrace he's there at all. 5/11
But Biden was unable to demolish Trump's most predictable and absurd lies & misinformation. E.g. most Ukraine aid goes to American workers. Putin didn't invade Ukraine during Trump because he was waiting for his pal Trump to continue to undermine NATO. 6/11
With such incompetent and/or enfeebled leaders, who surrounds them becomes of paramount importance. With Trump it will be a rotating cast of corrupt loyalists trying to dismantle checks & balances, grifters, and a few qualified ones who won't last long. 7/11
We know who is around Biden now, and while it's an average mix, they have failed at fulfilling their oath to defend the nation by hiding the Biden we saw last night from the country until the primaries were over. If they thought it was for the greater good, they were wrong. 8/11
In 2020, Biden was elected as a caretaker to get the country back to normal after Trump's corrupt chaos and Covid. A reassuringly boring senior politician, not anticipated to run again. I have my critiques, but he did better than expected--up to the decision to run again. 9/11
I wrote this 8 months ago, when it was already getting late. Now a White House and party that are always slow to deal with crises are themselves in crisis. 10/11 wsj.com/articles/biden…
Lastly, if Biden & the WH really care about Ukraine and the world order, they have a few months to get every possible dollar and weapon to Ukraine. Send it all before Trump fulfills his promises to Putin and allows it to be dismembered and it brave people slaughtered. 11/11
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