AMERICANS DESERVE SO MUCH BETTER.

Spiked contributor Sean Collins weighs in on that Biden v. Trump rematch, and he's not pleased.  "As the first few days of 2024 have already shown, a Biden-vs-Trump rematch will be unedifying and uninspiring. It won’t be ‘democracy’ on the ballot, as Biden claims; it will just be two well-past-their-prime incompetents shouting about events from three years ago."

There might be some purchase to what the Jarrett regency is doing.

It’s desperate stuff from Biden’s team. The attempt to present Biden as the great defender of democracy might be a little more convincing if his Justice Department wasn’t trying to put Trump, his likely presidential opponent, in jail. And while Biden might claim that Trump has been trying to ‘deny your right to vote’, his fellow Democrats in other US states have been trying to remove Trump from the ballot. Jailing your opponent and removing him from ballots sounds awfully autocratic to me, but what do I know.

It’s remarkable that the ‘Trump is Hitler’ strategy is the best that Biden’s team can come up with. Here we are, three years into his presidency, and his re-election message is all about events that happened before he entered the White House. Biden’s campaign team has clearly decided that his supposed achievements – such as Bidenomics and green investments – will have little purchase with voters.

This is weak, negative campaigning. And yet there is method to Biden’s apparent madness. Demonising Trump and his supporters, as Biden did in a manic speech delivered against a blood-red backdrop in Philadelphia in 2022, was a big factor (along with the abortion issue) in rallying Democrat support and winning over independents in that year’s Midterms. Biden’s campaign team clearly hopes that a repeat of this approach will bear fruit again.

They're still running on abortion, but with the geographic sorting that has been going on, stories of a few distressed women living in states with strict abortion restrictions might have less purchase, particularly if the distressed women are able to go to the less restrictive states.

Beyond that, the administration's messaging is incoherent.  One day, Trump is a fascist who will be more effective than Hitler's government ever was (yes, including waging the war and conducting the Final Solution.)  The next day, he's an incompetent who talked a lot about infrastructure and spent no money, and voters are asked to note the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, a porkulus that isn't even keeping up with the deterioration of the existing roads and bridges.

We have much to look forward to.