Going into 2020, one thing is very clear. The Democrats don't seem to want to win in 2020. I know it's only 2018 and the midterms haven't happened yet, but you should still be concerned.
Donald is already campaigning. Mind you, President protectionist makes his flags in China, but still.
This should be the easiest election to win in United States history. Yet, as the first round of presidential candidates shows up, it looks more and more like they're going to give the President a second term.
To be clear: I will endorse whoever the Democrats put up in 2020. Even Zeus The Guitar Lord, a one-off Spongebob charter, would be a better president than Donald Trump. However, that doesn't mean everyone will. Tons of people will be willing to reelect a failed president because the other person is bland.
Let's see who they have:
Sanders is still more than likely going to run. Him being a Senator and releasing a new Anti-Trump book is already proof of that. This is also helped by the fact that he's the most popular politician in America.
However, he will still be 80 during his presidential inauguration. Over a full year of the average US lifespan. Even with a 70-something-year-old president, people will still be worried rather or not it's too old. Of course, many Bernie supporters would love to take years off their own lives to give Bernie more of his own, but we aren't even close to their yet.
Biden is someone that this blog has already talked about. So I'll make it short. He's the old ranting man of the Democratic Party. He's also one of the blandest white men in all of US politics, and that's saying something.
However, a new man has entered the race. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present you former Attorney General Eric Holder. The man who is "interested" in a presidential run.
Eric Holder is the man I named the term "Pulling a holder" after. Basically, it means that once a government official is out of office they will advocate for better ideas than the ones they pushed for in office. Specifically, due to how now advocating for the legalization of marijuana. Meanwhile, he allowed President Obama to keep it illegal on the federal level and pave the way for Jeff Sessions.
Or how about how he let President Obama sit by and throw the book at Edward Snowden. Now he says Snowden "did a public service". But he refused to do anything when the entire Justice Department, that he ran, said otherwise.
So, we're 3 candidates in and so far only 1 of them is any good. Although at least I can see Biden winning, Holder just seems too much like a standard establishment type to be like in a post-Trump world where you're supposed to at least pretend you're bucking the establishment. Biden at least has been around the block long enough to call his ties "experience". Holder has never held elected office and has only been appointed to positions.
Basically, the number of times a would-be president would have already won looks like this so far:
Sanders: 20 (many of which he was a write-in for) even if he doesn't win reelection for his Senate seat in November.
Biden: 10
Holder: 0
This can only end so well.
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