Surprise! The results are in from New Hampshire and Donald Trump won a clear victory over Nikki Haley and Joe Biden won with write-in votes. Dean Phillips (Biden 2.0) was a distant second and Marianne Williamson a disappointing third. Interestingly, even though Phillips had a respectable showing, the Democratic chair in New Hampshire suggested he should drop out of the race to ensure a Biden/Harris victory in November. In short, there should be no alternative to Biden/Harris because that’s how democracy works best!
Nikki Haley, though losing in NH, did fairly well because a lot of independent and “undeclared” voters decided to cast their lot with her. Trump, exit polls show, held a commanding lead among self-identified Republican and conservative voters. Trump commands the base, the most strongly committed Republican voters, so it’s difficult to imagine a path for Haley to the nomination.
Trump versus Biden redux is looking very likely for 2024, a Caligula versus Nero scenario for the new Roman Empire. I get to cast my primary vote on Super Tuesday early in March, and the only thing I’m certain of is that I won’t be voting for Trump or Biden.
Never has it been so glaringly obvious that America needs an alternative to the duopoly and the “choices” it provides for POTUS.
America may be deeply in debt, but we the people of the United States are totally bankrupt politically.
A sadly predictable headline at The Nation: "Biden Might Have Had the Best Night of All in New Hampshire: The state Biden pushed out of the primary calendar gave the write-in candidate a landslide win, and signs of a path to victory in November." By John Nichols
See? He wasn't even on the ballot and he won! Let's leave aside that Democrats voted in much lower numbers due to Biden's absence, that independent and undeclared voters were encouraged to vote for Nikki Haley instead of a challenger to Biden, and that "big name" Democrats like RFK Jr. were kept off the ballot; indeed, kept from the Democratic primaries altogether.
Biden wasn't a landslide winner -- not when he couldn't even be bothered to show up and compete. And not when the DNC has conspired to keep all serious challengers from competing.
We the people are bankrupt in terms of money, but the ruling elite are the ones who are bankrupt politically. The latter group move mountains to obstruct popular will for change. Then the mainstream media pretends that nobody is talking about poverty and terrible economic conditions.
We the people are mostly good. That's why we're not allowed to choose.