The Case for a Primary Challenge to Joe Biden (By Mark Leibovich at The Atlantic)
Yes. Biden has been an excellent President—but that’s not good enough. The US needs better than excellence. We need a great President, a transformative President, a Roosevelt or Lincoln.
And Biden has failed in several ways as President. He has done a terrible job at Covid.
And has not done enough to break up the domination of big business in our national lives. Ask the people of East Palestine about that. Yeah, sure, Trump set the policy that allowed that disaster to happen—but the Biden administration has had plenty of time to fix that policy, and they didn’t. Indeed, during a showdown between labor and the railroad companies, Biden came down for the railroad companies.
And there’s the matter of his age. I’m staunchly anti-ageist—but Biden will be 82 when he’s sworn in for his next term. That’s old.
So let’s have a good primary competition and see if Biden is up for the rigors of a rough-and-tumble election, and his second term.
I’ll support whichever Democrat gets the nomination.