Not in generations have two more unpopular politicians been deemed the presumptive nominees of the USA’s major political parties.

Over 70 percent of Americans recoil at the prospect of another election choice between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Yet, the Democratic and Republican national committees relentlessly insist on manipulating their nominating processes for 2024 to force precisely those distasteful alternatives on the voters, with each side resting its hopes for victory on the public’s abhorrence of the opposing party’s candidate.

The parties’ leaders are ratifying and enabling the massive egoism of their respective leading candidates. Trump manifestly seeks a return to the White House as a platform for personal revenge and “retribution,” no matter the price the already divided country will pay for his further self-aggrandizement.

In his own ricochet selfishness, Biden seeks to exploit Trump’s obvious defects as a rationalization for his own insistence on running for reelection despite his age and declining physical and cognitive abilities. He believes Trump is unfit to lead the nation and that he, Biden, is the only leader capable of preventing that disaster.

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