People keep saying, “why are folks losing their minds over one night?”
Well, it wasn’t just one night. It’s avoiding press conferences. It’s skipping a Super Bowl interview.
And, post-debate, it’s “just 32 minutes of combined public comments over 5 days, none of it off the cuff.” wapo.st/4f3LCBI
So...and I ask this with the utmost sincerity...fucking what. It's July. Replacing the top of the ticket right now is a deranged fantasy and it's one Democrats fall for again and again. The French just showed us how to do it. For the love of god, stop with this already. www.npr.org/2024/07/07/n...
Yes, the French just showed us that strategically resigning to consolidate anti-far right coalitions is a winning strategy. There's a winning anti-Trump majority in US, too, but it requires a candidate other than the one who 75-80% feel is too old to do job. bsky.app/profile/tani...
FRANCE UPDATE: The near-final list of candidates who are in the French runoffs is out.
Two days ago, 311 districts were going to have 3-way or 4-way runoffs.
Then, 200+ candidates dropped out to block far-right.
So: There'll be "just" 91 such runoffs this coming Sunday.
Also French snap election was about a month from beginning to end. Four months is US is a comparatively long time. Large bloc of voters won't even start really paying attention until fall.
Elite electoral politics is a LONG way from democracy as I understand it, but within that window, there's such a gap between the US & others. And UK FPTP system is shit.
