sorry but this is just wrong. yes, there’s a bad faith media feeding frenzy. but *fifty million* people watched Biden sputter his way through that debate. it is not a creation of the media, it is a real problem.
I don’t like to embrace doomerism but I’m pretty sure the moment we took on this narrative as a true “concern” Biden needed to disprove, especially party leadership, we were fucked.
Yeah, that's the thing that folks like Stancil and all haven't kinda squared up. They say it was bad, and they point out the rallies he's done and kinda bouncing off press, but don't acknowledge the fact that the campaign utterly dropped the ball into a bottomless chasm to stop this.
They should be hammering Trump, non-stop, and now they have to convince a hostile media, and frankly, party, that their candidate is fine. They didn't get out ahead of it, due to hubris? stupidity? Who knows.
