“We all know who Donald Trump is. The question we have to answer is who are we.” — Biden at Valley Forge.
In powerful campaign kickoff at start of year of destiny, President brands Trump as holding a dagger to the throat of democracy since January 6 MAGA insurrection, cites George Washington’s ”sacred cause” of independence;
As FDR noted, needy people cannot be free, so content of freedom and democracy is not only political rights, but also return to economic progress after nightmare of plutocratic globalization-as in today’s sustained job creation of 216,000 jobs and full employment jobless rate of 3.7%, continuing longest stretch below 4% since Vietnam war;
Legality under Constitution is indivisible, meaning that Insurrection Clause of XIV Amendment bans Trump from second term, despite whining from faint-hearted centrists and liberals from Newsom to the Washington Post; Scalia majority opinion in 1989 Midland Asphalt case limiting interlocutory appeals may rule out Trump’s delaying tactics in his immunity appeal;