‘The drums and bugles of the Democratic Party are beginning to sound with Whitmanesque force,’ write Marvin Kalb and Garrett Mitchell.
U.S. President Joe Biden laughs with former U.S. President Barack Obama onstage during a campaign fundraiser at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on June 15, 2024.
Kalb, senior adviser to the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Murrow Professor Emeritus at Harvard, is the author of the memoiror a few tense moments in the late afternoon of Saturday, June 13th, the country gasped as the specter ofrifled its way into a Trump rally in Butler, Pa. Two dead, including the sniper, and two critically injured, while former President Donald Trump was grazed by a bullet on his right ear.Overnight, Trump has become an icon, a more formidable, vital candidate.
In Milwaukee, Trump has hit the MAGA-Republican Party’s sweet spot with his selection of Ohio Senator J. D. Vance as his running mate—a youthful, articulate, intellectually agile pugilist.As a result, President Joe Biden’s acknowledged vulnerability in the electoral college duel has become more pronounced. The Democratic Party’s prospects for electoral victory on November 5th are evaporating.
to Biden—Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jefferies, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and others—the drums and bugles of the Democratic Party are beginning to sound with Whitmanesque force.The moment has arrived for former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, the two people who have the standing and status to break the paralysis gripping the Democratic Party, to make their move—before Trump, the battle-scarred icon, and his running mate, Vance, emerge from Milwaukee to vivify the political landscape.
If they share the burgeoning belief that Trump’s re-election is tantamount to a toppling of the republic envisioned by the founders, they must move fast, disregard protocol and politesse, and take urgent action to give voters a choice that offers vigorous, effective global leadership for the balance of the decade and beyond.hosts the world's leading voices, providing commentary on events in news, society, and culture. We welcome outside contributions.
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