Yeah, I feel like the people who say it would be all positives are really not doing an honest assessment of the lay of the land here. I get the argument but the feeding frenzy we see now would just transfer, and Harris would face questions of why she backed/hid the infirm Biden for so long.
Right. The problem with swapping Biden out as nominee is that it doesn't solve anything. The fundamental obstacle here is a media that *will* destroy any democratic nominee.
I don't have a solution.
I don't have a solution but I would say rewarding bad coverage is probably the absolute worst possible decision Democrats could make right now, and if Biden steps down the NYT is going to be fucking unhinged in ways we cannot imagine for the next four months.
At this point the best “solution” would be if somebody sensible bought a number of major media outlets and did a bit of staff restructuring.
Otherwise, they’ll just carry on with this rerun of their “But Her Emails” rampage no matter WHAT happens and no matter who’s running.
