This Has Been The Worst Election In American History
The presidential election of 2020 will go down as the worst America has ever had. It must never happen again.
By David Marcus
November 2, 2020
On Tuesday it will all be over. Maybe. In any event, everyone who is going to vote will have voted by then and the campaigns for the presidency will have slipped into history. Today, with the clarity of hindsight, we can see just what an awful mess the entire thing has been. In recent memory, there has never been an election that was less informative, less driven by policy, and less fueled by hysteria than the race of 2020.
My campaign season was bookended by reporting trips with my Federalist colleague Chris Bedford, with whom I spent time in Pennsylvania last week. In February, we had been in chilly New Hampshire ahead of its first in the nation primary. We thought we knew what the basic contours of the race would be, even if we didn’t know, and frankly didn’t expect, that Joe Biden would be bearing the standard for Democrats.
Fresh off of his acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial, Donald Trump was presiding over an economy with record numbers, including lows for black and Latino unemployment. That would be the president’s primary pitch, we assumed. On the other side, Democrats and former conservatives would run against Trump’s tone more than his record. Then came the plague from China, and everything changed.
In the blink of an eye, much of the Trump economy’s gains were wiped out. The president would have to run a campaign promising to restore what he had built, not to sustain and grow it. Meanwhile, Democrats saw in the coronavirus response a chink in the Trumpian armor at which almost all of their arrows would be targeted. The election — most of our lives — became about one thing: the virus.
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