Joe Biden's resignation from the Democratic nomination for President of the United States the race for the White House turns back into an open competition. Biden has been a good president and managed to stop Donald Trump in 2020, but given his current state of health, he was no longer in a position to repeat such an effort. His timely withdrawal as a candidate, together with the presidential administration until the replacement on January 20, will be his last service to the country and, above all, to democracy. To the internal economic improvement, we must add the restoration of Washington’s leadership as an ally, its commitment to Ukraine and its attempts – even if unsuccessful – to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, also avoiding dangerous escalations with Russia and Iran.
His candidacy had become untenable, especially after the frustrated assassination of Trump, which the Republican candidate used to soften his most aggressive profiles, after he was acquitted of the many judicial processes when he became the first former president to be convicted of 34 crimes of fraud in public documents and was responsible for serious interference in the electoral process. A new Trump presidency, protected by the inexplicable decisions and delays of judges appointed by himself, is an effective threat to the democratic system that only the voice of the citizens can stop. His brutal and ruthless reaction to the announcement of Biden's withdrawal – in contrast to the democratic respect the magnate suffered after the attack – shows that his appeal for unity at the Republican convention was only a mirage.
After the past month and a half, the Democratic Party has been forced to find the formula to reach the ballot box in a position to challenge the parliamentary majorities and the presidency. The procedure for the nomination of the person who will replace Joe Biden as presidential candidate is not easy, only three months before the election and only a few weeks before the Democratic convention. Biden has already named Kamala Harris, but the party structure must organize the procedure and the nomination of the candidate in the most appropriate way to maintain party unity, ensure the support of delegates and donors is maintained and reach the final stretch of the campaign in a position to defeat Trump. His glaring weaknesses will come to the fore again under the current circumstances, once the debate about the age and health of the president is over. Many of the difficulties attributed to Biden also apply to Trump, who is only three years younger and has a capacity for oratorical banter that is much better than that of his rival.
Biden's resignation should therefore serve as a boost to the depressed Democratic field and for the liberal democracies linked to the United States, which fear a new Trump presidency. If the first was the empire of chaos and incoherence, with the hypothesis of a second presidency and complete Trumpist control of the Republican Party, there is little doubt about the meaning of a new victory for Trumpism. An isolationist and protectionist phase would begin, marked by illiberalism, the concentration of power by a president protected by monarchical immunity and the imbalance in the distribution of power in favor of a Supreme Court dominated by the most reactionary judges of the last century, ready to undo all the achievements in equality and social welfare of the last fifty years. It is at least a relief that the Democrats do not consider the battle lost before it has begun.