3/31/2023 0 Comments Trumps animosity shows letting up![]() ![]() For example, in the conversation about race, why didn’t Wallace press Biden on his inference that an African-American not voting for him means “you ain’t black” – a remark both condescending in that it suggests a group mindset and insulting in that in suggests that to be black, in America, is to practice poor grammar. What I also liked: rather than open the debate with a typical “Beltway” question such as the New York Times expose on Trump’s tax returns, he kicked it off instead with a question about Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.įor openers, he didn’t press Biden as hard as I believe the Democratic nominee deserves – what rightly comes from purposely ducking non-softball reporters for several months now. Did Trump press Biden as to where he’s been the last six months?Ībout the debate’s moderator: let’s cut him considerable slack, as trying to keep this debate from going ugly was a near-impossible task. But he didn’t close the loop by driving home the point that the son was profiting mightily at the same time the father was the Obama Administration’s public face on Ukraine policy.Ī second missed opportunity: every time Biden used the word “bunker” (one supposes the attraction for Democrats is the fascist image it evokes) to suggest that Trump’s deliberately socially distanced himself from the nation’s problems. Yes, he kept evoking Hunter Biden’s ties to Ukraine. If so, he succeeded – much to the disappointment of fans of civil discourse.īut again, Trump missed the mark. What was Trump’s intention when the debate commenced? My guess is – and fitting for a president who’s a frequent guest on a select few Fox News shows – he wanted the hour-and-half encounter with Biden to become a prolonged Fox segment/partisan argument complete with barbs, zingers, cross-talk and a moderator holding on for dear life. What part of California’s failed attempt to do the same, on a considerably small scale for over a decade now, suggests that that a national rail undertaking won’t be one more federal sinkhole? Moreover, Biden wants to build a high-speed rail from coast to coast (in 2011, he said it could be done within 25 years). Plus, a new mandate to banish the sale of gasoline-powered in the Golden State by the year 2035 ( if that’s legal) that probably doesn’t resonate with pickup-driving and long-hauling Midwesterners. Asked about where he stands on the topic, Trump could have (and should have) shifted the conversation to ask whether a burning California is a preview of Democratic horrors on a national scale – an inability to keep the lights on when temperatures soar ( thanks, renewables). Trump, at times, simply failed to seize the moment – for example, the portion of the debate having to do with climate change. “I am the Democratic Party right now,” Biden asserted. Similarly, Biden did his best to give the impression that he’s the Democratic sun and Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are but remote planets. “Whatever position I take,” Biden maintained, “that will become the issue.” ![]()
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