I support Joe and will do so until the end come hell or high water. I think he’s the best person for the job, and more importantly I think at this point there’s no going back
My wife doesn’t agree
She wants him to drop out and for Kamala to take his place, and the sooner the better
I’ve tried telling her that it’s not that simple. Delegates and donors won’t just magically swing behind her. It will lead to an unprecedented split ticket situation at the convention, and will almost certainly result in deep fractures in the Democratic Party for a long while to come
She will hear none of that
Not because she’s beholden to billionaires, or because she’s feeding off the current media slants trashing on Joe day and night, and not because she doesn’t like Joe personally, and most f*cking certainly not because she’s secretly some kind of MAGA Republican troll
She’s coming at this from a more brutal, Machiavellian angle
She’s worried that Joe will get worse, and frankly it’s hard to debate with her about it
“What happens if he performs similarly (or worse) at the next debate? What happens if his current condition, perceived and/or manufactured or not, worsens?”
That is the gist of her reasoning, and I’m at a loss for what I can say to her other than the political consequences I described above
Many, many Americans share those fears. Sure a lot of those will still show up on Election Day. Like many have said: with Trump on the other side of the ticket the stakes are way too high to just sit out
But the basic question is the same. What do we do if this is in fact an ongoing and progressively worsening condition? Not “What do we do as Democrats?” but instead “What do we do as a nation?”
I don’t have an answer