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......This might be harmless if Biden and Trump really were equivalent, but nothing could be further from the truth.
It’s time for everyone, the media especially, to face up to the actual choice: Between constitutional democracy and authoritarianism. Between a normal human being and a self-involved, spiteful madman. Between a government that has performed well and a regime that would gyrate from one personal obsession to another.....
But the fact that they are not “equally bad” was brought home on the night of the New Hampshire primary, when Trump went on an unhinged tirade against Haley. He was petty (“I watched her in the fancy dress that probably wasn’t so fancy”), threatening (“I don’t get too angry,” he said angrily, “I get even”) and vindictive (“She’s not going to win, but if she did, she would be under investigation”). Haley knows it’s absurd to pretend that Biden is capable of such an indecent display.
And on that age issue, it’s another sign of media skittishness that the 77-year-old Trump’s frequent miscues and flights from reality did not get much coverage until Republican Haley called out the speech in which he kept confusing “Nikki Haley” with “Nancy Pelosi.” Yes, strong women seem to drive him batty, but it should not have taken Haley to force a reckoning with Trump’s disassociation problems.
There’s no question Biden has a lot of work to do, particularly to motivate younger voters whose support he needs and who would prefer someone new and dynamic. But the fact that no Democrat of consequence chose to challenge Biden suggests he just might have the qualities required in this dangerous year: his character, his desire to hold the country together and his ability to keep the peace in his party. There could not be a sharper contrast with Trump.
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