As an election year dawns, Republicans and Democrats should stop to reflect on why our politics seems so stagnant.
No one expects President Joe Biden to earn a mandate even if he wins reelection; it won’t be a victory for Biden so much as a defeat for Donald Trump.
Progressives don’t see Biden, or Kamala Harris, as an architect for the future.
A second Biden term promises an older, ever less vigorous president facing a world afire and a nation divided to the point of political divorce — with big Republican gains in the 2026 midterms, if history is any guide.
But what if Trump defeats Biden?
In a non-consecutive second term, Trump will be as old as Biden is now, and he too would likely find the next midterms devastating.
Trump is more spry than Biden and may still personify his party’s ongoing evolution.
He’ll also have a fresh running mate…
