We don't need a Biden campaign, we need a shadow president to fill Trump's leadership void
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Chris Truax, Opinion columnist
June 3, 2020, 5:00 AM EDT
While President Donald Trump is having Twitter feuds, a pandemic is raging, the economy is collapsing and American cities are burning. We need presidential leadership, not just in the political sense, but in the moral sense. And we can’t wait until January to get it.
There has been a lot of discussion about how presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden should go about campaigning in this extraordinary time in American history, and the answer is that he shouldn’t. We don’t need a presidential campaign, we need a president. And the man currently sitting in the Oval Office just isn’t up to the job.
In times of crisis, running the government is only part of the president’s duties. The president speaks for the nation — and to the nation — setting the tone and calling us to action. Whatever you think of George W. Bush’s policies, his finest presidential hour was standing up for Muslims after the 9/11 attacks. In that moment, he channeled what is best in us and called us to rise above the fear and the hatred and live up to America’s promise. I don’t think any of us can imagine President Trump doing something like that, now or ever.
Biden can be a moral leader now
But that is exactly what America needs. Tens of millions of Americans are out of work. There’s a culture war brewing over the coronavirus pandemic and it’s a war that could literally kill tens of thousands of Americans.
Fear and anger rage in the streets of America’s cities over the police killing of George Floyd. President Trump isn’t just AWOL, that would be bad enough. Instead, he’s pouring gasoline on the fire, mocking people for wearing masks and taunting Floyd protesters by threatening them with “ominous weapons” and “vicious dogs.” The very last shreds of Trump’s moral authority vanished in clouds of tear gas outside St. John’s Episcopal church, used to disperse peaceful protesters because the president wanted a photo op featuring a church and a Bible.
And there is something that Biden can do about all this. The British have an informal system of “shadow government.” The idea is that parties in opposition appoint “shadow minsters” that correspond to the actual government ministries. These shadow ministers are responsible both for critiquing government policy and advocating for their own party’s policies in their area of competence
Biden's vice presidential choice: It just got simpler. He needs Kamala Harris or Val Demings.
There’s no reason that Joe Biden can’t do something similar. Short of appointing a shadow presidential cabinet, he can turn his vice presidential interviews into internships. Send Sen. Kamala Harris to hold a town hall in Minneapolis on behalf of the campaign. Send Rep. Val Demings to Atlanta and Louisville. Make Sen. Amy Klobuchar the coronavirus spokeswoman. Deputize the people you are considering as your vice president and send them out to speak on your behalf. Because that’s what a President Biden would be doing. This is not campaigning, nor should it be. This is giving America a taste of what a Biden administration might be like.
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