anyone who thinks harris is gonna get an easy walk from the nation’s newspapers and editorial boards if she were to become the nominee is absolutely lying to themselves
It would be knives out in the media and the same panicky impulse to go NO NOT THAT ONE, the same impulse that fed this, will kick in again and they'll freak the fuck out and blame the DNC and Clinton and the usual suspects.
A tale as old as time.
Biden is just untenable now, too risky. I'm more sanguine on Harris than that. I think there will be a tremendous upsurge in enthusiasm throughout the Democratic Party. (Particularly if she picks a good running mate like Chris Murphy, Andy Beshear, Jamie Raskin, J.B. Pritzker or someone.)
the NYT’s specific op-ed bent is that they are the kingmakers who will decide the election on the democratic side and if she doesn’t kowtow to them, she will get the same treatment biden is getting and clinton got, but kowtowing won’t matter to actual voters
No one with any real power at the NYT will suffer harm under a corrupt, authoritarian regime, and that arrogant insulation comes through every damn day
Yup.
Particularly with Trump, if he happens again. Notoriously grudgy and vindictive. But it's about how the NYT leaders and top editors behave now. With a sense of remove, even if they may prove wrong.
I would just like someone to explain to me how he suddenly became too old specifically when he gave his first debate response last week, and why we couldn't have had this conversation in January when there was a very clean way to pick a new candidate
The number of mediocre white men taking shots at her under the guise of "wondering if she can handle the stress" will make the Clinton handling look like child's play.
I'm fully supportive of her candidacy if it happens, but 1. if they do it, she should become president, too, & 2. that doesn't mean I'm going to pretend it's without difficulties
The whole thing is just asshole pundits who want to be fiction writers, preferably getting optioned for movie rights.
I think a whole generation of political writers' brains were broken by Joe Klein and "Primary Colors".
Really, though, the most important thing is that they're actually being very disciplined in all of this. Like, the panic is among big donors and media shitheads, actual governing Dems are all but perfectly in step.
Mostly. I saw today some dumbass congressman in TX stepped out of line, called for him to step down or whatever. I think Biden should invite him to the Oval for a chat.
Still yet, all I see is a news cycle that's the worst since Biden left Afghanistan, if not since Her Emails, with absolutely nothing comparable ever hitting Trump, even when he was convicted. If I were Harris I'd be avoiding that maelstrom however I can.
I broadly agree with you re the freak out but Clyburn isn’t the type to just say things like that off the cuff. Not when everyone is looking to him specifically for dirt. We’ll see, obviously.
Strong agreed.
On further reflection the question is more how would you feel about going around Harris; rather than how would you feel about a decision by/for Biden to leave.
