bouie is literally the only person on the NYT board who is behaving and responding to the debate like a professional that has followed and covered a presidential election. i mean that seriously, i'm not being snarky.
if you actually get *paid* to write about politics for a living, screaming that the nominee has to drop out after one bad debate *in june* (and one in which the challenger did not do well, either), you are unqualified for your job and your salary
Biden steps down. Harris is muscled aside in favor of Andy Beshear. Jim Clyburn and other high ranking blacl Democrats says “wait a sec, why are we elevating Harris?” what happens next?
yeah, he's fine, whitmer's fine, pritzker is fine, wes moore is fine, they're all fine, but none of them are winning a general election after a nasty floor fight and with five months to run
If Dean Phillips had stuck to his original declared plan (not attacking Biden, definitely not being weird, putting himself out there as a normie Dem who wanted to meet voters and look energetic and make sure people knew he was available if they wanted a younger candidate) he'd be having a moment.
Instead he started listening to the people who were eager to show up for him and talk to him, and he started sounding like them, and they're cranks.
But a lower key display of ambition and normalcy could have meant the NYT editorial board chanting his name in unison at escalating volume today.
