Joe Biden Should Never Have Met With Trump

Even though Biden is trying to promote the peaceful transfer of power rolling out the red carpet to a threat to democracy sends a mixed message.

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Joe Biden Meets With Donald Trump At The White House

We all know why President Biden will meet with Donald Trump at the White House. It is a tradition that the current president welcomes the president-elect before the official transition at the White House.

Politico reported:

So what’s on the agenda? As far as Biden is concerned, the meeting itself is the agenda — upholding a key governing norm and showing magnanimity, even if Trump skipped the whole ritual entirely last time around amid his denial of the 2020 election results.

“At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter that they said that Trump was dangerous and all these things,” a Biden administration official told Playbook. “It’s about continuity of the government, moving America forward. And if this is who they chose, then this is who he needs to sit next to, period.”

“On the other hand,” the person added, “I’m a human being and I’m like, what the fuck?”

Over his more than half-century career, Joe Biden has loved norms, which is good, except for the fact that Donald Trump already shattered the norm after he lost the 2020 election and did not invite then-president-elect Joe Biden to the White House.

So, what exactly is going on here? Is it good for democracy for Biden to uphold a norm that implies everything is fine when a man who promised to be a dictator on the first day he got into office is the one who won the presidential election?

These are all valid questions.

The corporate media has done nothing but normalize Donald Trump’s abnormal behavior since he first arrived on the national political scene almost a decade ago, but should Biden be doing the same thing?

Biden And Democrats Are Sending A Confusing Message

Joe Biden has spent years warning that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy at home and around the world, and there is ample evidence to support his claim.