Joe Biden and Donald Trump at the final debate of the 2020 election Yuri Gripas/Sipa via AP Images The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land . The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial of Our Land here .
* * * My opponent likes to pose as a tough guy. But where I come from—and it may be old-fashioned—if you lose, you take the hit. You don’t whine and cry about it and blame everybody else.
You take responsibility, you move on. That’s what a real man does. And by the way, why does a fellow who tries to be so macho wear as much makeup as a drag queen? Can anyone explain that to me? President Joe Biden has four main objectives in his upcoming debate with Donald Trump scheduled for Thursday.
He needs to champion his performance in office (bipartisan legislation, a trillion dollars in infrastructure investment, the expansion of domestic computer chip manufacturing, climate change policies, a better economy than other Western nations, the Covid vaccination distribution, and more); to share compelling aims for a second term; to defend himself against the expected attacks (age, inflation, incompetence, and supposedly heading a devilish cabal that aims to destroy the United States); and to assail Trump as a threat to democracy and the world. On that last point—a drop.
