Biden nonetheless thinks he can have crushed Trump. Do we truly want this? | Arwa Mahdawi

It’s (now not simply) the sexism, silly

Raise your hand in the event you’ve been determined for Joe Biden to pop up and let us know all, over again, how he would have handily crushed Donald Trump in 2024.

Obviously, I’m now not the National Security Agency so I do not know what number of arms are up presently however I’d bet it’s now not too many. Still, Biden turns out to suppose all of us wish to relitigate the November election and has returned to the highlight to provide an explanation for precisely what went fallacious.

In an interview on ABC’s The View on Thursday, the previous president took a tiny little bit of duty for the hellscape we’re lately dwelling in, noting: “I was in charge and [Trump] won. So, you know, I take responsibility.”

Biden must have left it there, however he additionally defined that he thinks he would have crushed Trump if he hadn’t dropped out of the race because of all of the global seeing proof of his cognitive decline throughout that disastrous debate. I don’t know what evidence he has to fortify this concept – now not ballot numbers, anyway – nevertheless it’s at all times excellent to imagine in your self!

Another factor Biden believes: that Kamala Harris misplaced the election on account of sexism. “I was disappointed but not surprised,” Biden mentioned of Harris’s defeat. “They [Trump voters] went the sexist route.”

Trump’s marketing campaign used to be stuffed with sexist and racist assaults towards Harris. Bigotry and misogyny obviously performed an element in her defeat.

Still, accountable Harris’s defeat on sexism, as Biden does, is an enormous cop-out. Harris didn’t lose as a result of she used to be a mixed-race lady. She misplaced as a result of Biden’s hubris intended she had little or no time to place in combination a marketing campaign and since, as soon as she used to be the nominee, she refused to place any distance between herself and Biden’s unpopular insurance policies. To refresh your reminiscence, when Harris went on The View remaining October, the co-host Sunny Hostin requested her if there used to be the rest the then vice-president would have accomplished in a different way from Biden, and Harris mentioned “not a thing comes to mind”. A brand new ebook via the newshounds Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes claims that Biden confused Harris to make sure there used to be “no daylight” between the 2 of them. Biden denied pronouncing this throughout his look on The View – however whoever made up our minds in this technique, it used to be disastrous.

It’s additionally disastrous, I feel, to stay pushing the narrative, as Biden is doing, that Harris misplaced on account of sexism. Saying that america isn’t able to elect a feminine president is a self-fulfilling prophecy. It makes it much more likely that white male applicants, noticed as a more secure wager, are favoured over girls.

Yes, there’s quite a few misogyny in america, however the lesson to take from 2024 isn’t that the rustic isn’t able for a feminine president, it’s that the rustic is desperately able for alternate. A contemporary ballot discovered that 50% of Democrats need the celebration to “become more progressive”. Another ballot discovered that “a 58% majority of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say that the Democratic party needs major changes, or to be completely reformed”. Instead of relitigating the previous, Democrats wish to aggressively reconsider their long term.

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