{"id":7220,"date":"2024-07-16T07:15:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T11:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=7220"},"modified":"2024-07-16T07:15:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T11:15:23","slug":"just-fear-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/just-fear-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Fear Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

 This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself\u2014nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory\u2026  \u2013 Franklin D Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paralysis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Democratic Party (my Democratic Party) is paralyzed.\u00a0\u00a0We are paralyzed by fear, \u201c\u2026nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror\u2026\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The public emotion that FDR faced in 1933, and what we Democrats face today, isn\u2019t all that different.\u00a0\u00a0Roosevelt looked out at a Nation shaken by economic collapse, wondering whether the American experiment in democracy would survive or live up to its promise.\u00a0\u00a0Today, Democrats look at the possibility of Donald Trump winning back the Presidency, now made even more possible by the assassination attempt. With him comes the atrocity of Project 2025 and the likely end of American democracy. Democrats are responding with that same kind of fear.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We want and need, to be sure that our candidate for President can win.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Biden stumbled in the worst possible way in the Presidential Debate, now three weeks ago.\u00a0\u00a0His \u201cone job\u201d was to show America that his eighty-one years of age does not impact his ability to govern and campaign.\u00a0\u00a0He failed miserably.\u00a0\u00a0In the debate, he seemed confused, unresponsive, and most importantly of all, unable to prosecute the case against Donald Trump.\u00a0\u00a0As Biden himself would say, \u201cIt was a big F-ing deal\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0He blew it.\u00a0\u00a0It shook Democrats to the core.\u00a0\u00a0We felt that deep, ugly, empty feeling that we woke up with on the morning after the 2016 election.\u00a0\u00a0It led to this terror, the terror of the possibility of Trump winning.\u00a0\u00a0And, reasonably, many asked what alternatives there might be to Joe Biden.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baked-in<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

President Biden spent the last three weeks trying to convince us (Democrats) that the Debate was an aberration, not a new reality.\u00a0\u00a0Those efforts, more than twenty campaign speeches, one-on-one interviews, a full NATO summit, the NATO press conference, and the post assassination attempt calls and speeches; lead to the following conclusions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, Biden is an older version of himself.\u00a0\u00a0He stutters, he over-thinks answers to questions, he gets names wrong (Putin for Zelenskyy, Trump for Harris).\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s what he\u2019s been doing for his entire very long political career.\u00a0\u00a0Joe Biden was never an orator like Barack Obama or Bill Clinton.\u00a0\u00a0Look up the word \u201cgaffe\u201d in the dictionary, and there\u2019s Joe Biden\u2019s picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But those issues were \u201cbaked-in\u201d to Joe Biden.  It\u2019s not fair to complain that he\u2019s doing what he always did \u2013 those flaws were already \u201clitigated\u201d back in 2008, 2012, and 2020.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Second, the questions that was answered this week are; can Joe Biden still \u201cthink\u201d; can he prosecute the case against Trump, and can he still lead our Nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his press conference after the NATO meetings, Biden showed a complex and thoughtful thought process.  He gave us a vision of the world, balanced between Russian expansionism, NATO unity, Chinese economic needs, and America\u2019s strength.  His answers were insightful and complicated, and his explanations were cogent.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the post -Trump assassination attempt speeches and statements, Biden showed his continuing leadership. He put aside his vast differences with Trump to show not only concern, but to lead a Federal process to improve protection for his opponent and himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The President can still \u201cthink\u201d; he still has a broad and deep grasp of the problems of the world.\u00a0\u00a0And in his campaign appearances with the AFL-CIO and in Michigan and last night’s interview with Lester Holt, Biden began to articulate the case against Donald Trump.\u00a0\u00a0It isn\u2019t as forceful as many Democrats would like, but he is laying out his reasons, and raising the stakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bring Back Obama<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After three weeks, we know that Biden can still do it.\u00a0\u00a0So why are some Democrats still calling for Biden to \u201ctake his laurels and leave\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It goes back to the \u201cnameless terror\u201d we felt both that Wednesday morning in November 2016 and Thursday night just three weeks ago.\u00a0\u00a0It comes from staring into the abyss of another Trump Administration, this one without \u201cguardrails\u201d,\u00a0\u00a0better organized and programmed to alter America beyond recognition.\u00a0\u00a0When Biden released that terror on debate night, it sent Democrats on a fruitless search for a new candidate, any candidate, to lead us away from our nightmare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We search for a brilliant, articulate, \u201csuper star\u201d, to make this election unquestionable.  We long for a candidate who is a \u201csure thing\u201d.  To put it bluntly, we don\u2019t want Biden, or Hillary; we want Barack Obama back.  And that\u2019s not going to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frankly, Biden might well be a \u201cbetter President\u201d than Obama.\u00a0\u00a0When you look at legislative success and improvements made, Biden is a better \u201clegislator\u201d than Obama ever was.\u00a0\u00a0Of course he is:\u00a0\u00a0Biden spent thirty years in the United State Senate.\u00a0\u00a0He was a career legislator.\u00a0\u00a0He intimately knows the process of getting things done in Congress.\u00a0\u00a0Biden is like Taft was to Teddy Roosevelt, or Johnson (the Great Society and Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts) to John F Kennedy.\u00a0\u00a0Obama is the orator, the leader, the ground breaker.\u00a0\u00a0Biden is the grinder, the man who gets things done.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s no wonder folks love what Biden did, but don\u2019t credit Biden for doing it.\u00a0\u00a0He doesn\u2019t have\u00a0\u00a0the star power of a Roosevelt, Kennedy, or of Barack and Michelle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Divide and Lose<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Democrats are looking for a \u201cstar\u201d.\u00a0 It\u2019s not Biden, or Vice President Harris.\u00a0\u00a0And while there\u2019s a huge \u201cbench\u201d of possible candidates, raring to go in 2028; it\u2019s really not their time.\u00a0\u00a0Here\u2019s why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Biden were to \u201cretire\u201d from the race, almost 4000 delegates to the Democratic Convention, delegates pledged specifically to Biden, would be \u201cfree\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0The maelstrom of a truly open convention, where\u00a0\u00a0delegates would be required to choose a \u201crunner-up\u201d candidate, is likely to leave the Party divided and broken.\u00a0\u00a0The list of possible candidates is long:\u00a0\u00a0Harris, Newsom, Whitmer, Moore, Buttigieg, (among others). That process looks like the quickest way to get Trump elected in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Biden were to \u201ccommand\u201d his delegates to vote for Vice President Harris, most would obey.  Harris could also tap into the over $200 million in Biden\/Harris campaign funds, something that other candidates could not.  And Harris is the obvious heir-apparent, Biden\u2019s specific choice to follow his Presidency.  The \u201cmaelstrom\u201d would be avoided, and the Party united. But while I like the Vice President, she isn\u2019t the \u201cstar\u201d Democrats seek.  And with her Presidential candidacy comes the unspoken worry:  is America ready to elect a Black woman as President?  Are Democrats willing to take that chance, here, now, in the face of Trump?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Us<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

And so, my fellow Democrats, let me mis-quote another of our favorite Presidents:  \u201c\u2026ask not what the Presidential candidate can do for you, but what you can do for the Presidential candidate\u201d.  Stop looking for a \u201cknight in armor\u201d to come and rescue us from Trump.  The safest, sanest thing to do is to nominate Joseph R Biden, gaffes and all.  Nominate Biden knowing that he\u2019s an effective President but not a \u201cstar\u201d.  Nominate Biden, then get to work as FDR said, \u201c\u2026(W)ith that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not just on Joe Biden.  It\u2019s on each of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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