I watched the Trump/Biden debate last night, hoping it would be an amusing disaster. Unfortunately neither said or did anything outrageous enough to stop the show. After four years of Trump, what used to be considered outrageous is now the norm.
He spouted his usual nonsense, making Biden sound almost reasonable by comparison. It’s not that Trump can’t lie convincingly, but that he doesn’t even try because he knows his fans enjoy his antics.
The pundits who followed their debate, and told the audience what we’d just watched, demonstrated that politicians aren’t the only ones who can no longer think or speak articulately. Pundits used to be articulate, if not always honest, but now they're neither.
What will
happen when we no longer have this buffoon to distract us? At first there will be the usual honeymoon
period, during which the unrealistic expectations raised by the new president’s campaign
promises are crushed by his refusal to keep them. Then we'll be faced again with the same problems we faced before Trump blundered into the White House and distracted our attention from them with his antics.
I can’t
believe anyone really expects things to change for the better when Biden becomes president, which they apparently did expect when Obama became
president. The differences between Obama
and his Republican rivals were literally skin deep, but the differences between Biden and Trump are even more superficial, so we'll have to work harder than we usually do to
ignore reality when Biden becomes president.
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