It’s accepted wisdom that in the matchup of Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden, voters despise their options. Supposedly Trump is the only individual Biden could beat, and supposedly Biden is Trump’s best shot to return to the White House. What a bullish scenario.
Except that pundits don’t agree. Ever of the view that “this election is the most important one of modern times,” and that democracy allegedly hangs in the balance if either Trump or Biden wins or loses, members of the commentariat insult the voters by lamenting whom the voters happened upon as candidates. As one prominent pundit gloomily put it in a recent opinion piece, “In 2024 the future—the onrushing, dangerous future—ought to be the theme of the presidential election. The challenge of all that’s coming should have brought forth smart young leaders. It’s a paradox—a kind of historical perversity—that two old men should be locked in a death struggle for leadership of a country of which each of them is a symptom of decline.” The conventional wisdom is wrong.
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