There was a little something yesterday that kinda pushed that out of the news cycle. Please keep the NY Times in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.
I've only heard the faint explosions of distant shelling a few klicks south but even that's been tapering off
Maybe I've just blocked/muted/unfollowed the right people though
The biggest way I can tell people are lying when they said they feel uncertain and uncomfortable in their lives is they propose increasingly crazy solutions to problems without thinking them through. Biden has gotten too good at the job.
People are absolutely (and rightly) scared to death of a second Trump term and Biden not being comfortably ahead (like Hillary was) is making them want to grab hold of anything, whether that's a new candidate or Dictator Joe, to make them feel better.
(Honestly, the people who were going Genocide Joe two weeks ago who now want him to seize absolute power are probably the ones telling on themselves the most.)
Eh, I think if he had started out ahead like he did in 2020 and showed no major slippage at any point, people would feel a lot better (like they felt in 2020).
Part of me seriously wonders if we did less stimulus and the economy recovered more slowly Biden could say stuff like "'you need Dems to return things to normal' and 'we're too close to 2020 to repeat it.'" But people act like the problems of 4 years ago are a decade ago.
Well, no, then the argument would still be that the Dems hadn't waved their magic economy wand and fixed everything immediately. Just the details of what they hadn't fixed would be different.
One step backward to take two steps forward, you know? If I were in his position I'd be considering it at least, especially if my poll numbers don't improve.
This is an asymmetric battle. Biden can't criticize a power grab and grab it at the same time. If the voters don't dislike the power grab so much as to vote it out, they unfortunately have to suffer through it. This has always been the dilemma of Trumpism.
we're talking about people planning an outright coup. this is an abandonment of the law, and it's looking increasingly like civil methods will be insufficient to stop it. at some point liberal democracy has to defend itself.
All I'll say is that on every big question of the last 9 years, from filibuster reform, adding states, SCOTUS expansion, etc, I've arrived at the future conventional wisdom among liberals a couple years early. Here's hoping this one doesn't end up mattering.
