Columnist argues US would have been better off if Trump won in 2020

Political columnist Ed Kilgore argued in an article published on Sunday that the United States would have been better if President Donald Trump had been re-elected in 2020 against former President Joe Biden.

“A re -election of Trump in 2020 would have made the 2024 elections in the shadow of which we hold a very different proposal. There would have been no Trump revenge campaign to awaken the faithful of Maga and desensitize the public to his failures,” Kingore in the intelligent of New York magazine.

Kilgore recognized in the column that the idea seemed crazy, noting that Trump would have inherited several burdens if he had remained in office. He wrote that everyone would agree that it would have been well if there was no Capitol re -eminence on January 6.

“The effect of this scenario on the Democrats of 2024 would have been even more dramatic. A defeated Joe Biden would have ended his political career in 2021. Kamala Harris would have undergone two debilitating losses in the presidential cycle of 2020, once as a candidate for the presidential appointment and once as a candidate for Veep; nobody would have considered a serious candidate for 2024”. “He added.

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Kilgore said that the Democratic Party would have had a process of normal appointment leading to 2024 and that the party would have overcome its divisions between progressive wings and establishment.

According to Kilgore, a Trump victory in 2020 would have enabled the Democrats and the former president to avoid key issues that prompted the Americans to vote for Trump in 2024, including immigration, inflation and Biden age.

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“The Democratic Party would not defend record inflation, uncontrolled immigration, too much” awareness “, an ill -managed withdrawal from Afghanistan, and all kinds of other problems. Many unhappy young people, “he added.

Kilgore said that the alignment of democratic administration with several negative realities had made Trump’s political return possible.

Former President Joe Biden talks to journalists from the South Pelouse of the White House on Monday, September 2, 2024, in Washington, after his return from Rehoboth Beach, DEL. (AP photo / Mark Schiefelbein)

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The political columnist argued that Trump’s return led to “horrible policies” and a GOP “devoted to hatred and extremism”.

He also said that it had also left the Democratic Party in ruins because they lacked a clear path.

President elected Donald Trump shakes hands with US President Joe Biden at the inauguration of Trump in the American Capitol rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC (Kenny Holston-Pool / Getty images)

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“It would have been worse if Trump had won in 2020? I don’t think so,” he concluded.