Not sure who all reads the Washington Monthly, but it is currently running a truly excellent take on the path forward for Biden and us Democrats. The money quote is:
Perhaps the most unsurmountable of the unacknowledged impediments to dumping Biden is that nobody other than Joe Biden has proven capable of uniting the unruly coalition that is the Democratic Party. If Harris were passed over, would African Americans (particularly Black women) line up behind Josh Shapiro or J.B. Pritzker? Would Bernie-stans and AOC acolytes turn out for Wall Street-friendly Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo? In 2020, even like-minded centrists Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg got into normie-on-normie knife fights whose wounds have still not yet healed. The blithe notion that an open convention would produce a unified party—in less than three months—seems like fan-fiction fantasy.
Nearly every serious analysis I’ve seen of who that might be ends up like this one. Biden is far from perfect but he’s the best we’ve got.
Here’s what I think is the rub:
America has had presidents with severe physical and mental impairments, abominable judgment, or the morals of an alley-cat—but we’ve never had a president hell-bent on destroying the nation’s democracy.
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Most Democrats may stick with a candidate whose ailments are more serious than they thought— but not if they’re labeled “bedwetters.”
We need all Democrats to find a way to climb down from the desire for an uber-candidate who can allay our worries about the Trumpocalypse and put our weight behind the best practical option, which is Joe Biden.
Perhaps it’s undue optimism, but I think going into an election without looking for the President to personally embody everything we value is actually a good thing. Our President is the person we choose to work for us to run our country. They don’t have to be perfect to be a good steward of our trust. And that’s a version of politics that I think (hope?) can surpass the “Ds and Rs in Washington only interested in fighting each other and nobody’s paying attention to us” feeling that leaves a lot of Americans cold.