Im not trying to be cruel this Wednesday, just reading the numbers:
Joe Biden is the most unpopular president that the United States has had in a very long time. Voters dislike
Kamala Harris even more. And that's a problem because this is supposed to be the new administration's honeymoon period, the part where everyone thinks they're great. So it's not getting better from here. This is as beloved as the Biden administration is going to get.
Smart
Democrats can read the numbers. They understand this, and they're working on a solution. This week, two of them wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal calling on the party to support
Hillary Clinton for
president in 2024. Hillary is the best-positioned candidate to win a national election, they argued. She's also, they noted, younger than Joe Biden. Former President Bill Clinton agrees with this, or says he does anyway. Bill Clinton told People Magazine that his wife is, "The most qualified person to run for office in my lifetime, including me."
In fact, failing to elect Hillary in 2016 was in Bill Clinton's studied estimation, a historic national tragedy: "One of the most profound mistakes we've ever made." Unforgivable, really. The good news is we now have a chance to correct that mistake, and you don't get those very often in life.
Typically, when you do something rash or stupid, you've got to live with the consequences. It's probably happened to you. One night you're listening to Born to Run after too many drinks. The next thing you know, you've got Bruce Springsteen's face tattooed on your lower back. It's embarrassing. It's also permanent. Think of Hillary Clinton as America's National Tattoo Remover. She alone can erase the stain of our youthful, bad judgment. God bless that woman.