If Democratic leaders force Biden to resign…
That’s the conversation these days at the game…
…Would Trump be happy?
Not at all, he is the easiest opponent for Trump because this Biden has been an excellent president, but, let’s admit it: He looks aged in these four years! And Trump, although also old, benefits from that perception.
Is it fair that Biden could lose after achieving full employment and rising wages?
Biden has been the best president for the US and its economy since Lyndon Johnson; but…the problem now is that he is going to lose!
Will you ask Biden to withdraw?
For many Democrats like me, it would be more hopeful than seeing Trump on the verge of winning his second term and inflicting irreparable damage on our democracies.
You were a pillar in the party and organized great presidential campaigns…
And I dedicated my thesis at Columbia to analyzing the process of selecting presidential candidates in the Democratic Party. And, for that reason, today I believe that Biden should renounce re-election as soon as possible and that is now the great urgent and relevant debate in my party.
Isn’t it too late to find another candidate?
No. There is still time. Remember how President Johnson’s resignation was expedited. We can still stop Trump and save democracy.
Would Democratic leaders say to the White House, “Joe, we need to talk”?
Yes, and there would be some confusion at first; But the debate of who replaces him is less relevant than the debate of replacing him now, because the polls show that Americans do not love Trump, but neither do we love Biden. And that another Democratic candidate would win without problems.
Who would Biden listen to when leaving?
To Obama, who would be like the Republican Goldwater, who convinced Nixon to retire after Watergate.
But Biden has done nothing wrong.
On the contrary, he has been a great president and the problem is not his age: being 81 years old does not incapacitate you to preside over the United States: but his 81 years does, which, only in his case, cause him difficulties or that is the impression that projects, as important in elections as reality.
Does being president have an age limit?
It is not Biden’s age but that his is already affecting his performance while other Democrats could reach the White House without problems and prevent Trump from endangering the world, because Trump II has prepared himself so that nothing will stop him and he arrives with a fearsome team.
But don’t you think Vice President Kamala Harris is too weak to replace him?
I think of Michelle Obama, with whom we can still replace Biden and beat Trump, but I already tell you that in this case it is not so much who as much as acting quickly. And there are many other options.
At home Biden has done well. In Palestine or Ukraine, worse?
Israel is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza…
Does Biden lose or gain votes because of it?
He is losing them from the decisive Arab minorities in key states like Michigan or Arizona, where the left is demonstrating – with Jews like me who condemn Israeli crimes – against Biden’s permissiveness with Netanyahu and his massacre of women and children.
Bad times for international law and human rights?
My professor at Columbia and pioneer of the discipline, Louis Henkin, said that “most countries, most of the time, comply with most international law.”
And wasn’t Professor Henkin in most cases too optimistic?
Not at the time; but seeing Israel’s atrocities in Gaza we would now have to think about a setback, but with some hope, like South Africa denouncing Israel before the International Court of Justice…
Didn’t this repay Israel’s support for the apartheid in Pretoria at the time?
The important thing is that it put international law at the forefront of what until then were blood and bombings and has great value.
In addition to the injustice you denounce in Gaza, is it politically profitable?
Netanyahu believes that for him, yes; but for Israel and the Jews it is completely counterproductive. Therefore, out of patriotism in so many states and universities, we Jews demonstrate against Netanyahu saying “Not in my name.”