“Politics would be interesting again,” is a hell of a thing to say generally and also, for these commentators, obviously untrue. Nothing about any replacement process will be as arousing to them as the prospect of forcing the renominated president out of the race with enough poison pen columns.
This is what they really want, isn’t it? Entertaining politics to write about. They beg for a brokered convention almost every POTUS election cycle. They want drama and clicks and to be relevant.
“You guys are obsessed with Trump. Did you used to date him? Because you pretend like you hate him, but I think you love him. I think what no one in this room wants to admit is that Trump has helped all of you. He has helped you … sell your papers and your books and your TV.” -Michelle Wolf 2018
Because apparently the whole country/democracy being at stake and SCOTUS inventing shit in the constitution out of whole cloth isn't enough to talk about.
Except they don't seem to want the drama and clicks that "hey maybe a convicted felon who tried to overthrow the government shouldn't be running again" would generate. It's really just a large-scale effort to undermine the Democrats.
If they do replace Biden as the nominee, it'll be four straight months of Democrats In Disarray, followed by four straight months of "here's why the candidate we hounded the Democrats into adopting was a bad choice and ran a lousy campaign."
That's not all they want. They want to be able to push 347 negative stories a week about whoever is the candidate. This is their "But her emails..." story of 2024 to get clicks and eyeballs, and it's not working:
Well, they would have plenty of interesting stuff to write about under a fascist regime. Only problem is, they would not be allowed to write it.
Make politics boring again.
In a world where so many sports get almost no press coverage, this is a real waste of talent. Imagine if this kind of pot-stirring, narative-crafting energy was going towards, like, women's fencing instead. They should watch the Olympics and pick a new beat.
