V Bloombergu so dobro ujeli aktualni trenutek v ameriški politiki, ki ga krasi nerazumevanje vladajoče Demokratske stranke glede tega, zakaj so v vojni v Gazi izgubili volilce na levici in zakaj z nerazumevanjem identitetne politike ne morejo pridobiti volilcev med tradicionalisti in na desnici. Delajo si iluzije, da si lahko z več denarja za kampanjo in propagiranje dosedanjih politik kupijo še en mandat.

It says something about the state of America that one has to go back to the 1960s — the Cold War intrigue, the angry divisions over the Vietnam War, the trauma of the JFK assassination that spawned no end of conspiracy theories — to find some kind of precedent that helps make sense of the chaos unleashed in the US.

Just as Lyndon Johnson — who became president after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas — came to the historic decision not to seek reelection or accept the Democratic Party’s nomination, so did Joe Biden. Eventually.

The 81-year-old’s journey of self-realization has taken much longer, under the unflinching glare of the media. Colleagues at home and abroad, who a few months ago had fobbed off Biden’s ever more frequent lapses as just part of an elder statesman’s folksy charm, turned judgmental — first behind his back and then brutally in public.

Reality has hit hard and not just for Biden, who’d convinced himself that he alone could defeat Donald Trump in November.

It underlined the collective failure of Democrat leaders to understand the Trump phenomenon and its hold on what Hillary Clinton once dismissed as the “basket of deplorables.” 

Biden represents a bygone era of politics where the US felt a moral obligation to maintain a postwar order and bipartisanship wasn’t sneered at. The party needs to work out what it stands for: it’s lost support on the left over Gaza and on the right over concerns about the border and identity politics.

The Republican Party has been swallowed up by Trump’s “America First” agenda and after dodging an assassin’s bullet, he started to look unassailable.

Now top Democrats are investing their hopes of stopping him in Kamala Harris, Biden’s largely untested vice president, who’ll need to see off any potential challenge at next month’s party convention.

Assuming she does, then Harris and her party will have less than three months to convince voters to choose her over Trump.

Vir: Bloomberg