Opinion
USA Election: Why Donald Trump May Win November Election
By Muyiwa Sobo
Earth to Biden, please!
Democrats are excited, but we should beware of snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory. It was not a mistake that Joe Biden promised to pick a female vice-president, but the choice of a black female for cosmetic effect as some prominent Democrats are pushing may turn that wise promise into a foolish mistake.
I hope to see a black female president someday, but that is an unworthy risk currently, especially with the boundless evil potentials of Donald Trump to latch on to any divisive opportunity. I resist arguing against the interests of black female voters. Still, the current crop of potential black vice-presidential choices reeks with such divisive tools for breathing a new life into the Trump comatose campaign. Let’s take a look.
I don’t even know how Karen Bass, a little-known congresswoman from California, get to be a contender besides the fact that she’s black. But controversial circumstances are already emerging about her connection to communist Cuba and the Scientology religious sect. I am unconvinced by her explanations and who needs the distraction now?
Imagine Trump yelling all day how Biden will descend worse than his current baseless accusation of a socialist agenda to scary communism. Then there is Susan Rice and the Bengazi distortions that will suddenly open the flank for “crooked” Hillary 2016 redux and Obama conspiracy. Kamala Harris, qualified, but a misfit because she is by experience and reputation best suited for cleaning out the corruption cesspool created by AG Barr, the embedded Trump personal lawyer at the DOJ.
Val Demings, the congresswoman from Florida, obscure until her incredible impeachment performance, brings no considerable advantages to the ticket beyond her small-town police chief credentials. Black city mayoral experience of Kiesha Lance-Bottoms falls short of the expected heart-beat presidential replacement should it become necessary. The least qualified is Stacey Abrams, who failed to win in Georgia talk of energizing a national youth voter swell as her supporters claim. Her noticeable absence at the celebration of John Lewis’ life and achievements cannot be overlooked.
For Trump, potential suburban female white voters’ marginalization by choice of a black female vice-presidential candidate is salivating. He knows the chances of a Biden victory fade without that crucial block. In comparison, black female votes are going nowhere except for Biden.
Remember now that Biden also made an explicit commitment to putting a black female in the Supreme Court. A politically reasonable assumption indicates that the choice of a black female presidential candidate may render that commitment difficult, if not impossible. So, given a choice between a black vice-presidential candidate and a black female Supreme Court justice, I will prefer the latter. That aligns with the political instincts of James Clyburn, a black congressman from South Carolina, who, as a critical supporter, is credited for Biden pivoting primary victory in that state.
The Supreme Court determines most issues pertinent to US democracy, civil rights, and constitutional safeguards against governmental excesses. It is the anchor of the US government’s structural balance. It matters more who sits at the Supreme Court than who occupies the vice-presidency. Justice Clarence Thomas, a black male, living up to his jaded conservative views, has been an iconic opposition to black issues.
He has worked more assiduously against civil rights than even his white conservative counterparts. But as the longest-serving justice, he will likely retire within the next administration. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg will surely retire. The tough liberal justice has persevered painfully against the creation of another vacancy in the Court that will reward Trump with stacking the Court up further with conservative judges. The Supreme Court judgeship is a lifetime appointment, so those vacancies will present an incredible opportunity to liberalize the Supreme Court for a century. That is gender and racially more impactful long-term than a vice-presidency that has an eight-year expiration date at most. Choose wisely, please.
Muyiwa Sobo is a lawyer, public/current affairs analyst and social commentator
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