I think what's being swatted down as "elite opinion" from NYT/Crooked types is actually the piercing of a bubble from below. Most voters haven't wanted Biden to run again for literally years.
I think there’s a difference between the widespread longstanding belief that Biden’s too old and a sudden elite panic about how propping him up seems to have failed so now it’s time for smart people to pick a new winner in a brokered convention
I think we’re talking about two different questions here—people who think Biden is shot and would be OK with an abrupt but logical switch to his elected VP vs. people who see it as a chance to jam through their pet theory of what would be popular while magically not tearing the party apart
The latter group seems to be the people who were in denial there was any problem till Thursday night, which is to say they’re lurching from one untenable fantasy to the opposite untenable fantasy
We absolutely demanded this octogenarian anti-busing stutterer be president, but now that we see direct evidence that he is an octogenarian stutterer (anti-busing still great) we need to find another candidate to put into position in defiance of all law and custom, maybe Joe Manchin...
