April 26, 2020
Biden might actually win
By Steve Feinstein
When you think of it, it's nothing short of incredible that Joe Biden is the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party. One might have thought 2016 would have been Biden's year (if he was ever going to have a time at bat), since Barack Obama's two-term presidency had just ended, and most vice presidents who try for the top spot do so immediately following their bosses' departures. But, as is often the case in politics these days, party nominees can result from when the party decides it's someone's "turn." That was the case the last go-around: the Democrats decided that it was Hillary's turn, after she dutifully lost to Obama in 2008 so the country could elect its first non-totally-white president. The election in 2016 was supposed to have been Hillary's — the first female president. But it didn't turn out that way.
Since then, without warning, China unleashed the coronavirus. We'll let others debate whether it was a total accident from a random occurrence at a so-called "wet market" or whether it was a deliberate release of a bio-weapon made in some nefarious Chinese weapons lab or something somewhere in between those two vastly-separated extremes. It actually doesn't matter.
The completely unforeseen coronavirus event has paralyzed the American economy. It has also completely re-shuffled the 2020 presidential race. It's no longer a referendum on President Trump's performance in office, on his handling of traditional issues like job creation, energy production, taxes, foreign relations, and judicial appointments. Instead, it is now a referendum on President Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis. Predictably, the liberal media shifted their former cries of Russia, Russia, Russia! to outbursts of ventilators, ventilators, ventilators! President Trump handled that perfectly, and the ventilator issue went away. Now it's been replaced with tests, tests, tests! Tomorrow it will be something else, possibly "open too soon" or "second wave." It will always be something, and it will always have racial or discriminatory overtones.
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