The best thing about the American presidential debate last Thursday was that it happened with over four months to go before the elections. If held later, Joe Biden would have appeared even more feeble and Donald Trump would have been just as aggressive – with the “morals of an alley cat”, to quote the President of the United States speaking of a former president of the United States. Americans don’t deserve this.
A troubled world, still desperately dependent on American leadership despite premature declarations of its demise, doesn’t deserve this either. Trump’s sentencing for falsifying hush money payment records is not till July 11, and a string of appeals will, inevitably, ensue. Even when the appeals are done, jail time is not usual in Manhattan for this type of crime by a first-time offender.
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Let’s review the Plan B options. The presumptive candidate a heartbeat away, Vice President Kamala Harris , polls poorly. Whether it is because of plain old-fashioned misogyny laced with racism, or constant sidelining by the Biden inner-circle, or her own uninspiring track record, together with endless “cheapfake” videos – done by simply editing out context – of her laughin.