Never-Trumpers’ dream comes true
Donald Trump’s voter fraud claims will be very difficult to prove to the legal standard necessary for any court to agree with. A US State where the President lost could decide to not send its electors to the electoral college, thereby preventing Joe Biden from getting the numbers - something they could technically do on suspicion of fraud even if it’s not proven beyond reasonable doubt. If this was to happen, then the President will be chosen by a vote of the US House of Representatives where each State votes as a bloc. Since red States outnumber blue, and assuming that all the Republicans vote for Trump unanimously, Trump could remain President, then potentially face a civil war.
Meanwhile in Australian elections, you have one observer per ballot counter, observers are non-partisan and approved by each party, observer cannot know the ballot counter, observer must be within one meter of the ballot counter, and observer has access to an emergency hotline to election officials and law enforcement if fraud is observed. Why can’t America have this?
It’s interesting that Trump’s support amongst some key demographics, such as Latinos, Blacks, and minorities more broadly relative to the Democrats, has climbed up significantly since 2016. And this isn’t just true in Florida, but elsewhere too. In fact, his support amongst the white male demographic has gone down. Either way, the Grand Old Party is likely to retain control of the US Senate to stop government from getting bigger, and provided that the Democrats don’t rashly resort to court-packing, there’s now a constitutionalist Supreme Court bench that will stymie the excesses of a Biden Administration.
In any case, Biden is objectively better on trade issues. Trump’s tariff and trade wars have not benefited Americans, and have only punished businesses and ordinary people. The idea was that they could convince countries to renegotiate trade arrangements in an even more favorable way - and some argue that this happened with the renegotiated NAFTA. But overall, they have still been negative. And Trump also risked entirely undermining the idea of being tough on China through trade policy by tariffing and going after European countries as well as India and Vietnam - all of which the US needs favorable trade relationships with in order to counter mainland China. Speaking of which, entering into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will be crucial too in sidelining China while boosting trade links with other nations.
Biden is also better on legal immigration. Trump said that he’s a supporter of legal immigration and he only wanted to stop illegal immigration. However, his administration’s actual policy has only served to make legal immigration more difficult than ever before, for the sake of appeasing special interests. Biden is likely to be far better on this issue and more aligned with longstanding US conservative policies than Trump was. Importantly, preventing US companies from attracting the best and brightest minds from around the world will also make the country less competitive and innovative in the long-term. And that benefits no one.
And while Biden is certainly beholden to various special interest groups that raise much concern, he has come out publicly against the scourge of occupational licensing that is nothing more than a rort for those who already occupy some professions and vocations.
Biden could be compromised by his family’s alleged links to Communist China. However, it’s also true that he will likely help the US repair its relationships with key allies in countries like Europe, all without undermining the foreign policy gains that Trump has made with others. Trump’s value in Europe was demanding that NATO countries chip in more funds for their own defence rather than letting the US carry the burden. Now that that objective has been achieved, it’s unlikely that it will be scaled back under Biden.
It’s also true that a number of good things that have happened under the Trump Administration have been because he listened to and followed the advice of people who thought pragmatically and had the right idea. It’s possible that this might continue under Biden even if he is also influenced by the radical Left of his own party whose demands could still cost him the election this time around and have made the ongoing race as close as it is.
Finally, we’re not going to see the news explode with a deluge of negative stories every time the President tweets. Which, while fun for a while, has honestly gotten exhausting and repetitive.