Do It Again ?

(Do It Again ?)

"Standing in the middle of nowhere. Wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday. Between now and then. But now we're back where we started. Here we go round again. Day after day we get up and say, let's do it again."

These are opening lyrics to 'Do it Again' from the Kinks' last charting album, "Word of Mouth" from 1982. And, after night's election results, it is the re-match of the Century and old treads made new, again it is Trump-Biden whether this new contest is or is not desirable. That this situation could be possible over three years ago could scarcely be predicted. Trump was finished at the end of the 2020 Campaign.


Trump was considered a failed President. To recover would require all those votes he lost in 2020 that perhaps had been there in 2016 was not seen as practical. Remember, even the Jungle wanted him dead. That was then. This is now and Donald Trump is again the Republican Nominee for President. A few hours earlier, President Biden secured the Nomination for the Democrat Party. Game, set, match.


Neither candidate is without controversary, however. Former President Trump still has outstanding legal issues. Trump's own classified documents issue was dealt a setback of some sort when Jack Smith, the Special Counsel in that case when a witness came forward, removing his anonymity that would work to the benefit of Trump's legal team. As limits are being placed on the case in Fulton County, the judge there dismissing some charges, Trump as the new GOP Standard Bearer, is seeing his legal issues diminish.


President Biden is having his own issues, the most recent the release of the Hur report coming in the wake of what was thought to have been a "successful" State of the Union speech. Now,  Biden and Trump are all but tied in a new poll but Trump maintains leads in swing states and for an Incumbent, Biden has a challenge to say the least.


There are often sequels. There are of often sequels that should not have been made. Which will prove the Election of 2024, remains to be seen.


Even the strongest lion reaches Twilight. . .

For John Foster

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