60
Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race
(www.nytimes.com)
In-depth political discussion from around the world; if it's a political happening, you can post it here.
These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
I don't see Biden stepping aside. This is somewhat of a milquetoast piece that ignores the absurd amount of legwork that would need to be done. It's not just a vote at the DNC; it's turning a battleship around in terms of communications against a guy who would paint it in a particularly vile way as weakness. Which is to say, fucked either way.
The only way this conceivably happens is Biden dies before the election, which I'm sure there are contingency plans for, but that is the ultimate in-case-of-emergency-break-glass situation.
These thinkpieces about how Biden turned in a poor showing (he did) that also ignore that Trump was abysmal ... I don't know what to make of that. Biden was low energy and a bit rambly, but he at least allowed the truth to come out of his mouth once. That should not be the bar, but with the candidates we have, it has to be.
I cannot understand how anyone watches Trump and thinks "this guy gets me." He's not the second coming of Christ, he's the second coming of P.T. Barnum.