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Biden To Announce Re-Election Bid Same Day Trump Rape Trial Begins
This makes me smile
Link to tweet
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/biden-to-announce-re-election-bid-same-day-trump-rape-trial-begins
President Biden is expected to make the formal announcement of his re-election campaign tomorrow, the same day that the civil trial of Donald Trump on charges he raped E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s is set to begin.
It is as remarkable a tableau in American politics as you’ll see.
The former president, once defeated by the current president and still widely expected to be the GOP nominee against him in 2024, facing a rape and defamation civil trial in federal court in New York while also under criminal indictment in New York state court.
The challenge in our politics since circa 2015 has been to try to preserve some internal sense of what “normal” is. Without a baseline against which to measure the deviations from the norm, it’s easy to get lost. Frankly, even with a baseline it’s been easy to get lost.
During this era, I’ve reverted to two different baselines, neither perfect, but each useful in its own way: (i) what might we have expected in politics 10 or 20 years ago; and (ii) how will historians view today 100 years from now.
It is as remarkable a tableau in American politics as you’ll see.
The former president, once defeated by the current president and still widely expected to be the GOP nominee against him in 2024, facing a rape and defamation civil trial in federal court in New York while also under criminal indictment in New York state court.
The challenge in our politics since circa 2015 has been to try to preserve some internal sense of what “normal” is. Without a baseline against which to measure the deviations from the norm, it’s easy to get lost. Frankly, even with a baseline it’s been easy to get lost.
During this era, I’ve reverted to two different baselines, neither perfect, but each useful in its own way: (i) what might we have expected in politics 10 or 20 years ago; and (ii) how will historians view today 100 years from now.
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