'Say no, Joe, and let a younger candidate take on terrible Donald Trump'
We grow up in Britain being fed a junk-food diet of half-truths about America.
We’re told that it’s a beacon of human rights, its cities never sleep, everything’s bigger in Texas and their President is the most powerful person on Earth.
And then you go there and realise it executes twice as many people as Kuwait, some of its cities never wake and the only thing bigger in Texas are the people’s waistlines.
But the last one, about the US president having more power in his hands than any other human being on Earth, always held up. Until this year.
Because if America still believes that, how are the Democrats seriously thinking it’s fine for Joe Biden to be running the free world past his 86th birthday, when now, at 81, he can’t remember the difference between Egypt and Mexico, thinks President Mitterrand is still running France and that he had a great conversation with Helmut Kohl in 2021 when the former German Chancellor had been dead for four years?
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And how can the Republicans inflict on the world a man who has just invited Russia to invade and destroy any NATO country that doesn’t pay its full amount into the coffers, even if it is having an economically tough time?
If Joe Biden stands against Donald Trump in November it won’t just be a disaster for America and its allies, it will be the moment the US finally gave up on any pretence of being the most powerful political force on Earth.
As someone who naturally sides with the Democrats, watching and listening to Biden shuffle to a podium then stumble over his prompt cards is truly painful. I’m not saying people should retire at 80. Many thrive in their jobs at that age but I’m sure the majority of them would laugh in your face if you asked whether they felt capable of running the world until the beginning of 2029.
When my dad was 80 and his brain was declining, our family had to make the hard decision to take his car keys off him, knowing it would devastate him and leave him more isolated. But we’d seen he was unfit to be on the road and the thought of him causing a fatal accident left us with no option.
Biden has had a fantastic political life and was a better president than many of the recent ones, signing landmark legislation to alleviate poverty and tackle the climate crisis, but it’s now time to bow out gracefully and enjoy retirement.
The thought of what he might do, or rather the inevitability that his declining health will make him hand over to his vice-president, should be forcing the Democrats and his family to stand in the way of him seeking re-election.
Because the fact that 86% of Americans in a recent Ipsos poll believed he was too old to stand for a second term means if Trump avoids jail he will win. Then pardon himself on all counts and go gunning for revenge on anyone he believes may have slighted him at home and abroad.
The maniac we saw in his first presidential term will pale into insignificance with the demented Doctor Strangelove we will have to put up with as the world enters its most precarious state since the late-1930s. Just say no, Joe. And have a nice day.
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