09-30-2020, 01:42 PM
Joe Biden is... well, the mechanical pocket watch in an era of digital watches. He does his job right, but he is clearly old. He will be from a generation more than half deceased, and he will belong to a generation that will start to turn 100 in the last 21 days of his term in office.
I see him as a one-term President due to his age. I expect him to fit the Reagan pattern of becoming largely a ceremonial leader if he isn't up to the tasks that someone much younger does. That he is in unusually good shape for someone 78 years old comes with a qualification. If debility sets in, then Biden can resign for reasons of health or let others assume many of the responsibilities of the President. Trump cannot keep good people around him as Reagan could.
If Joe Biden is the pocket watch, then Trump is the battery-powered digital watch for which the battery yas run out or for which new batteries are unavailable or are available for a price much higher than the watch. The antique pocket watch is still useful, and even if it isn't convenient, it at least works. Yes, you must wind it up.
...as for the tough macho stuff... that is in decline. Trump is a rearguard barrier to modernity.
I see him as a one-term President due to his age. I expect him to fit the Reagan pattern of becoming largely a ceremonial leader if he isn't up to the tasks that someone much younger does. That he is in unusually good shape for someone 78 years old comes with a qualification. If debility sets in, then Biden can resign for reasons of health or let others assume many of the responsibilities of the President. Trump cannot keep good people around him as Reagan could.
If Joe Biden is the pocket watch, then Trump is the battery-powered digital watch for which the battery yas run out or for which new batteries are unavailable or are available for a price much higher than the watch. The antique pocket watch is still useful, and even if it isn't convenient, it at least works. Yes, you must wind it up.
...as for the tough macho stuff... that is in decline. Trump is a rearguard barrier to modernity.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.