11 Replies to “from Diogenes”

  1. Excellent.
    From 12 noon Washington time today, 5.00 pm our time the world will be a much better place. The “eco-gangster” will be gone, hopefully and very probably for good. Most humans and all of nature will heave a great sigh of relief. I just feel sorry for Biden having to clear up the utter chaos and mess he has left behind everywhere.

      2. I suspect but hope I am wrong that he will just not be trump. However he may be very good as the democrats control both houses.

      3. He’ll be better than Trump. But that is hardly difficult when the bar was buried in a substantial crater between January 2017 and January 2021.

        In a sense, the US will return, in environmental terms, to where it was in 2017 less the damage caused in the intervening few years. An example being the ecological (as well as intended human) barrier erected between Mexico and the US. Will Biden order the removal of these barriers, or at least provide corridors through which animals that previously moved between the two countries (as humans see it) can now use? I have my doubts.

        I think the Biden Presidency will be calmer (how could it not?) and seemingly be kinder (in all manner of areas), but am not sure where he sits on the political spectrum though my feeling is he is right of centre.

        After all, George Bush Jnr looked positively left wing compared to Trump, but I recall hoping Al Gore would win the 2000 election.

        What I think is as important, after the last four years, is who will be the candidate (for both the GOP and Democrats) for the 2025 Presidency. I think we are closer to that, then the start of Trump’s Presidency was looking back. How Biden will deal with the tens of millions of Trump supporters, who, whether we like it or not, currently consider they’ve been disenfranchised. A nightmare scenario will be Trump v.2.0 (either Donald Trump Jnr, or Eric Trump – with ‘The Donald’ pulling the strings from behind the scenes) from January 2026 onwards. So, in my view, it is not so much Biden is better than Trump. That’s easy. It is how Biden, the Democrats and the moderate GOP deal with the aftermath the Trump Presidency (all of it, not just the last fortnight). That will, from the vantage point of the 20th January 2021, be an important measure of Biden’s Presidency.

  2. For now I am pleased to see the back of the oversized orange toddler. Looking ahead I hope that both main parties, but especially the Republicans, will give very serious thought to how Trump ever came to be a candidate for the presidency let alone win it and endeavour to move political discourse back from the anything goes mud-slinging personality brawl it had become to something more grown up, honest and respectful where no-one is entitled to their own ‘facts’. It’s a lot to hope for.

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