Biden Resigns But Comes Out as a Political Giant

 Biden's speech about his decision not to run was marked by his resignation as an act of generosity and protection of American democracy, essentially a personal sacrifice to avoid leaving the country in Trump's hands. Biden rightly claimed the results, especially economic ones, of his presidency, promising not to leave the most important office in the US early, as his political rivals have repeatedly requested. In reality, the justifications for his withdrawal, while including the right defense of American democracy, must, by necessity, focus on the lack of appreciation by the Democratic leadership, the low value of the polls, a state of health that does not seem to allow the adequate conduct of a possible new mandate and the flight of investors. The truth is that Biden, without physical impediments, would have deserved a re-candidacy precisely for the results of his mandate, especially obtained in the domestic field, increasingly difficult to manage compared to foreign policy; the outgoing president, on the other hand, appeared weaker in foreign policy, with the disputed decision to abandon Afghanistan, not having achieved substantial progress on the Pacific flank, not having sufficiently countered China from a commercial point of view and not having obtained a solution to the Ukrainian question and having maintained an insecure attitude towards Israel. These issues, unfavorable to Biden, have obtained for Trump, reasons to attack his former opponent, obscuring the merits of the results obtained with economic growth and the reduction of unemployment. The Republicans have focused against Biden's chronological age to which were added the evident difficulties after the electoral confrontation, but it must be specified, that, if humanly it was legitimate for Biden to be re-candidacy, the party has lacked a serious examination of the candidate's situation and of the real capacity to sustain the effort of the electoral campaign. The signs, quite evident, have been present for some time and there has been a lack of action, even courageous, to question the opportunity to re-present the outgoing president to the voters. This is also considering the fact of how Trump would have conducted the electoral campaign, with particularly violent and mystifying tones. Of course, it is not easy not to renew the candidacy of an outgoing president, however, the poor management of the party situation has generated profound uncertainty in an electorate that was in any case pressed by a Republican action that was a crescendo of consensus. The Democratic Party was divided into clans and was characterized by an immobility, which if prolonged, would have guaranteed Trump a real plebiscite. Only the fear of an authoritarian drift, caused by the excessive power of the Republican candidate, moved the party leaders towards an alternative solution. Although it was not a timely decision and, above all, an unusual one, the choice of replacing the candidate appears to be the only way to effectively counter Trump, however, it should not have reached this point and acted much earlier to avoid Biden the humiliation of withdrawal; in short, if the Republican Party has lost all its original characteristics, becoming a hostage of Trump, the Democratic Party is not much better either. It is clear that the American political situation is at a sort of standstill, because it is held hostage by incompetent people who only want to secure as much power as possible for themselves, deceiving an increasingly individualistic and disinterested electorate. In this context, Biden's step back must be greatly appreciated, the outgoing president emerges as a sort of political giant, capable of sacrificing his own ambitions in order to avoid handing the country over to a new Trump presidency. Now the Democratic Party must know how to give itself an organization capable of leading its candidate to victory. Biden's act must provide the impetus for a reconstruction of the electoral machine capable of overcoming internal divisions to try to win and avoid the USA and the world repeating the disaster of a new Trump presidency.