Donald Trump's return to power in the U.S. as a consequence of the November 2024 elections is frequently portrayed as the inevitable link of deep political and even intellectual changes that take place both in his country and throughout the wider West. Yes, his triumph was unappealed, which did not necessarily capture polls in 7 key states at the time. However, the serious “discriminate” in this communicative of “the needs of history” is the undisputed fact that the opposing organization has entered these elections from a very unfavourable position, almost condemning it to failure, which, by accident, was masked by imprecise polls until election day. Of course, we are talking about the late, after the primary season, after the first of the debates and shortly before the conventions of the decision to change the candidate. president Joe Biden withdrew his candidacy and gave up his dreams of re-election, overwhelmed by failing health. And his vice-president Kamala Harris was appointed in his place as a candidate without due primacy, an intraparty debate, and investigating her postulates and leadership skills by another Democrats (this is simply a test that 4 years earlier – erstwhile she participated in the primaries of 2020 – failed), fundamentally a circumstantial consensus of a twelve people with the highest authority in the party. In the reality of the U.S. pre-election strategy of "rituaries" this has been a serious candidacy since the beginning handicap.
The faults for this unfortunate course of events, of course, are not borne by Harris, nor is it by Trump, who, as anyone put in his place would have simply taken the easy way to the White House. In fresh days, however, the sad news of president Biden's serious and possibly fatal illness coincided with the publication of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book "Original Sin: president Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run AgainIt’s okay. ” The title is extended and fundamentally says everything. It is adequate for Biden, to effort to cover it up and to decide to run again in elections (i.e. to hold the office of president until January 2029!) to be regarded present as the key causes of the failure of the Democrats in their efforts to halt Trump from returning to the Oval Office.
From the book and the interview given by the authors of "New Yorker" a image of the old president emerges, who for a long time – even for the full second half of his word – was not physically able to fulfil his duties fully. In the regular functioning of the administration, the concept of “peak-performance time“ so the time of the president’s best condition, which was about determined on time between 10 and 16 hours, which is up to a maximum of six hours a day. For the remainder of the day, the president has had difficulty formulating his own thoughts and processing others, so any crucial meetings, meetings or discussion of reports were set on time within this "candidacy window". However, he besides had worse days, due to the fact that – as it turned out – there was a crucial difference between Joe Biden, who had the chance to sleep 8 hours last night, and Joe Biden, whose calendar forced him to sleep less.
The closest White home advisors and employees, however, surrounded Biden with a protective “cokon”. Significantly, no of them agreed to talk about the president's dramatic state of wellness until the Americans made an electoral verdict in November. Only after that, Tapper and Thompson scored nearly 200 callers for their coverage. This unresponsible attitude was, of course, a product of Washington political realities, in which the career of hundreds of middle-level workers is linked to the leading office and usually ends with the failure of that office. So the same people who became sources of authors this year “Original SinIn the years 2023-24 they walked and assured everyone and everywhere that the president was fine, that we should leave these rumors, due to the fact that in this way only the election chances of Democrats are undermined and the Trump favored.
However, it could not have been besides good, since in the last year the presidency actually ceased to hold meetings of the full cabinet, while those in 2023 and even in 2022 were carefully established and described in the "scenarios". Individual secretaries (i.e. ministers in our nomenclature) were called upon to forward to the assistants of the president any questions they want to ask him, especially if they required the president to make a decision. To draw up the content of their speeches rather in detail. The President's replies to the ministers' questions were besides written before the cabinet gathering and Biden was limited to giving them. In the worst period of the turn of 2023/24 and then until the end of the 2024 elections, even little crucial ministers were restricted access to the president and reduced its number of meetings. Only key figures of his administration, specified as Anthony Blinken and Lloyd Austin, had constant access to Biden.
Of course, the fact that the run started in the spring prevented Biden from continuing to avoid public speaking. George Clooney, a large donor of the Democratic Party, a friend of the Bidens for over 20 years, and regardless of the face figure known commonly, alerted the public erstwhile the president did not admit him at his dinner for run donors. Being a individual outside a political-official bubble and not being a politician politician alone, Clooney only had this individual freedom to go out and admit that “the king is naked.” erstwhile Biden had to face Trump in a tv debate (set at 21 o'clock, and so highly long after the window of better cognitive capabilities of the president closed), it became completely apparent to everyone.
Talkers Tapper and Thomson gotta this day stressed that Joe Biden's cognitive capacity did not origin him to lose his ability to make decisions as president. Even if he could not hold longer talks, his decisions remained rational, consistent, logical, and clear. In this way, they want to reassure not only the American public that the western planet – in the era of Russia's aggression against Ukraine, the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the tensions between China and Taiwan – did not at any point stay without a helmman, nor was it – worse – issued to an insane old man, ready to confuse the atomic button with the button changing Sky Showtime to Amazon Prime on the tv pilot. However, doubts remain, due to the fact that despite Biden's completion of his tenure, people from his surroundings inactive should be careful and "protect their asses", ensuring that the president's decision-making processes are not perturbated, which, if they were, decided to stay silent for a good 2 years.
Joe Biden was a good U.S. president who made the right decisions on key global issues – with the unification of free planet states and a policy of sanctions against Russian aggression at the head. However, he was besides the president who took office besides late. The planet would benefit a lot from Biden's presidency if it came to earlier decades. Joe Biden is simply a decent man, but – most likely behind the proposition and under the force of his closest colleagues, as well as Jill's wife – he made an incredibly serious decision to restart the election despite the awareness (which he must have had) that it was time to end the active phase of life. Unfortunately, Trump's second presidency, directing the White House's sympathy towards Moscow alternatively of Kiev, burying the transatlantic community of values, hanging over the planet a customs war – all of this is besides an expression of Joe Biden's unreasonable attitude and his associates. This painful fact can no longer be silenced.
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