To Win, Biden Must Make Trump Own the Chaos of 2020
If Joe Biden is going to win re-election in November, he will have to accomplish several goals. The big one is obviously dispelling fears about his age. But that’s hardly the only problematic assumption that has taken root.
Over the course of the last couple of years, Donald Trump has pulled off an impressive maneuver: He has slowly gaslit America into thinking his presidency ended in 2019. This is to say, he has gotten many Americans to tacitly accept that nothing that happened in 2020 can be used against him—that the whole crazy year is off-limits to discuss. If Biden wants to win re-election, he will have to dismantle this premise.