Wow — my Biden skeptical/nervous friends are so disappointed and mad at me (and Joe Biden right now). They have been convinced that Biden doing well, and standing strong, is bad news by the DC media.
This whole thing — and logic — is so perverse. “We need to damage the presumptive Democratic nominee and make him step aside, as a damaged and weak incumbent, so that the Democrats can beat Trump, this fall”
I just watched the full interview and strongly believe, it is reassuring. Joe Biden is not senile or losing it. He really did have a bad night at the debate. I keep on telling my worried friends to watch the whole thing and they say “I read about it on the news.”
To be clear, I am Biden out if his numbers collapse and he is a drag on the down ballot races. Maybe the numbers have collapsed but I have not see that yet. All I’ve seen is a media freakout and gross, nihilistic effort by the DC press corps to take down a President (while continuing to let Trump off the hook) because its fun while claiming they are doing it on behalf of Democracy (and are really doing it for clicks, yayas). And, I’ve seen Biden skeptical voters rejoicing and believing that “yay, now we get our candidate.” Those voters are so mad right now — they wanted to get Joe out. They were giddy after the debate.
To me the only way through is for Joe to stay strong and get out, if he needs to get out, on his own terms. It is awesome that he is now making the DC media his opponent. People hate the DC media. It’s also awesome that he’s making the “NeverBideners” embrace KH as the alternative.
The whole frame, case why it is inevitable that Joe must step down put forward by the DC media — as evidenced by the Axios piece above — is tissue thin. They write “house democrats” when they mean three. They ignore that — even if Schumer and Jeffries were to pass full joint resolutions signed by every member of Congress — Biden can still stay in (they have no power in this decision). Now, in this Axios piece, the anonymous “Dem operatives” are saying they will ratchets things up. They imply that the polls are “bad” without citing data.
In sports, the biggest sin is to give up easily when you start to lose. Americans hate people who don’t try and love fighters. Joe Biden deciding to keep fighting is good news for the party and the country.
David Mamet had a famous play called “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” that became a movie called “About Last Night.” I think we are seeing a new play that should be called “Political Perversity in Washington, DC.” We’ve long been suffering from the NYT’s nihilistic, perverse agenda. Biden standing up to them makes things very clear and means we can go through it if we do the work. Let’s go beat Trump.