From an indispensable source of deep thinking about how democracies end.
Titled Biden Experiments.
Here is a key paragraph:
The crucial voters are the ones who have not yet made up their minds, or who might stay home for lack of enthusiasm. The issue at hand is beating Trump, ideally by a large margin, which will require millions of people who are not dyed-blue Democrats. Framing the discussion of Biden’s candidacy personally, as a devotion contest, immediately creates a sense of us-and-them. What we need is a verdict on what will work best to avoid the whole country falling into a permanent politics of us-and-them, which it will, if Trump wins. And that means considering the continuation of the status quo as one of several possible choices.