From Pulpit To Public Square

Every day, every hour, every minute Democratic leaders and national media outlets spend debating whether President Biden should drop out of the 2024 Presidential campaign is time we are not spending focusing on the very real danger of Donald Trump returning to the White House.

Granted that Joe Biden is 81-years-old and had a bad night at the Presidential debate. That conversation seems to have overshadowed the fact that Donald Trump is 78-years-old and is morally, intellectually, and psychologically unfit to be returned to the office of President of the United States.

Joe Biden just presided over the 75th anniversary of the 32 democratic nations of NATO, including Sweden and Finland that recently joined. Meanwhile, Donald Trump sat down with Viktor Orban, the autocratic leader of Hungary and praises other dictators around the world.

Joe Biden has presided over one of the most productive presidencies in modern times. He has made the U.S. economy the strongest in the world. Trump's biggest achievement was a massive tax cut for the wealthiest people in this country.

Biden has made the U.S. the leading energy producer in the world. He has returned major manufacturing to this country. He has worked to create infrastructure projects across the country, including in Republican states where politicians who voted against the Infrastructure Act now take credit for the jobs and projects coming to their states. The cost of insulin has been capped at $35 a month. A bi-partisan gun control bill was signed into law.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump was found guilty of sexual assaulting and then defaming E. Jean Carroll and has been ordered to pay her $81 million. He has been found guilty on 34 felony charges related to paying hush money to a porn star in an attempt to keep his sexual encounter with Stormy Daniels from the voting public.

Joe Biden is deeply committed to the idea of democracy and the rule of law. Meanwhile, Trump, the Heritage Foundation, and extremists in the Republican Party have written a document entitled Project 2025 that is a blueprint for how Donald Trump can become an authoritarian ruler. Trump recently suggested that he would like to dismantle the U.S. Constitution. Project 2025 will seek to reshape this country from a secular democracy informed by the separation of church and state into the biblical and theological danger zone called Christian Nationalism.

If Trump is elected in November, women's reproductive rights will be ended and criminalized. Voting rights will be greatly restricted. Millions of migrants to this country will be forcibly removed from this country. Trump has announced his intention to seek revenge and retaliation against his political enemies. Freedom of the press will be greatly limited. The U.S. military might be called upon to put down any public gatherings that protest the dangerous policies Trump will seek to implement.

Remember as well, that the U.S. Supreme Court has given immunity to Trump for criminal actions in which he might engage. True enough, Joe Biden had a bad debate. Meanwhile, Trump delivers incoherent speeches packed with the same lies he spouted at his debate with Biden.

Why are Democrats busy trying to replace Biden rather than focusing on all the dangers posed by Donald Trump? The clock is ticking on the future of this country as a democracy. If we are not careful, we will wake up with Donald Trump in the White House largely because Democrats were fighting each other rather than focusing on the real danger facing this country!

It is too late to seek out another Democratic candidate who can mount a national campaign in less than four months. In addition, Joe Biden received 14 million votes in the Democratic primaries last spring, and he has enough delegates to win the nomination for President on the first ballot. It makes more sense to stay with Biden and focus our efforts on keeping Donald Trump from being elected.

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