Is Biden worst possible Democratic presidential candidate?

 Is Biden worst possible Democratic presidential candidate? 

Gloom is spreading thruout the Party. Democrats nationwide are getting as depressed as President Biden over his falling poll numbers. 

Tho Biden likely could never lose the popular vote and most of his 20 core blue states, he’s falling behind in the 5 swing states that propelled Trump to victory in 2016. If held today, Biden could easily reprise Hillary Clinton’s loss, sending a deranged proto authoritarian under 91 federal and state indictments back into the White House. 

How could this gloomy scenario come to be? Biden has presided over a recovering, indeed booming economy, with relentless job growth, minimal unemployment, even moderating inflation. He’s championed women’s reproductive rights against a cruel Republican obsession with controlling women’s bodies. He reclaimed American electoral democracy from a traitorous outlier determined to destroy it. 

For starters, he should never, ever have run for re-election. Biden did all the above and should have retired to allow a younger, more vigorous progressive continue to build on his 4 year legacy. He’s not just too old at 82 on Election Day. He looks, talks and acts every day of 82, clearly past his governing shelf life. 

What possessed him to believe he was fit enough to function properly for 4 more years? Likely not a single Democratic voter believes that he will. Biden even told donors that had not Trump been the likely Republican candidate, he’d might have retired. So in Biden’s degrading mind, he’s the only Democrat that can beat Trump. That is hubris, more likely delusion, on steroids. 

But there is more than just his failing physical and mental stamina that’s sinking his re-election. He spent his first 2 years largely ignoring the exploding migrant crisis at the border which has expanded to the far north and east. It’s now become the hot button domestic issue riling up voters at the worst possible time. And they’re not riled up against Trump or the Republican Party. 

Even worse is his promoting, supporting, indeed enabling grisly wars in Ukraine and Gaza. They are not only destroying life for millions of Ukrainians and Palestinians, but his and down ballot Democrats’ chances for election as well. Once he earned the horrendous moniker ‘Genocide Joe’ over the destruction of Gaza, he should have thrown in the towel and dropped his reelection bid.

How does Biden and the Democratic Party salvage the 2024 election that may be slipping away? Party leaders need an intervention with Biden to get him to retire gracefully. He could easily cite his failing mental and physical stamina to continue leading the world’s only, though declining, superpower. 

An even more dramatic move might be to cite the above decline in announcing his resignation. That would allow Kamala Harris, his likely successor if he is reelected, to grow into the presidency as she would likely be nominated as the incumbent next August. But it would also allow potential candidates such as Gavin Newsome, JB Pritzker, among others, to toss their hats into the ring as well. 

These are troublesome, disturbing thoughts for Democrats. But they need to be voiced and heeded before Democrats snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.  And to answer the title question….yep.