Real political struggle has been largely suspended for the sake of defeating Trump and his threat to constitutional democracy<\/p>\n
You would hardly know from the 2024 cycle that primaries are supposed to be political contests. Each party\u2019s primaries, if they can be called that, were long exercises in foregone conclusions. And so the primary process, which for nearly 60 years has been a popular contest in which each party\u2019s internal factions jockeyed for position, worked to shape the party identity, and ultimately made their case to voters did not come to pass this year. Functionally, there were two incumbents. And functionally, neither party\u2019s primary offered a meaningful opportunity for the expression of internal dissent.<\/p>\n
This did not change on Super Tuesday. Biden and Trump racked up delegates; the votes that were cast in the presidential contest were cast mostly in full awareness of their futility, the result already decided. There is one option labeled \u201cR\u201d, and one option labeled \u201cD\u201d. More than once throughout the campaign, I\u2019ve imagined America\u2019s political party leaders as cruel lunch ladies, slopping greyish gruel onto trays for an unappetized America. \u201cYou\u2019ll eat it and you\u2019ll like it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist<\/p>\n
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