What if we held a campaign and no one came? The 2024 Presidential contest seems to be shaping up to be one that turns this from a hypothetical question into one that seeks to make a mockery of democratically elected government.
The incumbent, President Joe Biden, has barely phoned in a few scripted campaign appearances. He’s refused debates, and the Democratic Party apparatus has basically refused to acknowledge the primary process to select their nominee.
His “press conferences” are few and far between, and most major media outlets appear fine with it. They have also been happy to comply with feeding the White House their questions in advance so that President Biden can reply with scripted answers.
The Fourth Estate has been devoid of skepticism from a President with a long history of plagiarism. They have, instead, been fierce defenders of the narrative bubble which they wish us to believe the Biden family lives and operates within.
They have reserved their skepticism for the Republican front runner and former President, Donald Trump. Much like 2016, the vast majority of earned media – free airtime dedicated to a candidate to get exposure outside of paid advertising – has gone to President Trump, creating an aura of inevitability to his nomination process.
He, too, has been unwilling to debate his fellow primary challengers. He’s reserved his debates for judges who preside over trials that could make him a felon as well as strip him and his family of many of their business enterprises.
He prefers his “rallies”, where dwindling numbers of hardcore faithful have been willing to show up to hear rambling monologues about what he would do in a second term that he somehow forgot to do when he had control of the Executive Branch, while his own party maintained majorities in both the House and the Senate.
Those trials, clearly political in design, motivation, and intensity, have served as a galvanizing point for the…
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