JOY REID: Democrats are the anxiety people. They're always freaking out, assuming they're going to lose. They are also a normal political party. And debating whether an elderly president is the right choice to beat American Hitler is unsurprising, and honestly pretty politically healthy. If ill-timed, given the emergency our democracy is in. And who the Democrat nominee is is important on one level, because it speaks to the strategy of how to keep King Donald off the Iron Throne. But, real talk, it kind of doesn't matter. No, actually, it really doesn't matter. Because honestly, any Democrat, Biden, you name the popular Democratic governor or senator, Vice President Harris, any of them would be solid presidents, and far preferable to the Republican alternative, because all of them believe in the rule of law. Each of them would follow the traditional role of the presidency, and not try to be American Putin. None of them would use S.E.A.L. Team Six to assassinate their rivals, or expand presidential powers to turn the Justice Department into a witch hunt squad. None of them would arrest the entire Trump family and charge them with treason and put them in public show trials. None of them would round up millions of migrants and send them to concentration camps. Or make them fight in Fight Club like the Romans did. None of them would turn this country into a Christian Nationalist hellhole and ban books and criminalize teachers and drag shows. And I guarantee you 100% not a single one of them would outlaw birth control, and the abortion pill, and IVF and force women and teenage girls into being forced birth chattel for the State. But you know who would do those awful things? That would-be king. Trump. Trump. Through his weak, spineless party, and the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 plan. And the Leo Six on the Supreme Court say that’s exactly what should happen. The president must be bold and rule by fiat. Eff the law. That shouldn’t even apply to him. And they have made clear that they would partner with King Trump. As his loyal hands to rule us.
