What's really disturbing about the debate fiasco is there's no way to be confident that Biden has it in him to pull off the near-flawless execution he'll need to win at this point.
At a minimum, the Bidens owe us a real conversation about that.
My take:
newrepublic.com/article/1832...
it's an extraordinary claim. Biden is solidly within MoE of a win *right now in the polls* and there are good reasons to think that the snapshot polls are structurally underestimating Biden relative to where he'd be if we were voting.
it's also just totally unnecessary for the argument he wants to make, which is that Biden isn't up for the task ahead of him. you don't need to fabricate difficulty for the task ahead of him to make that argument.
Yup. If the country is so precarious that a single off night for a presidential debate (come on) pushes us into permanent tyranny, then we were already on the wrong side of the knife’s edge. We can’t proceed for decades with any one wrong move spelling doom.
This is all so very stupid, and underscored by how the Supreme Court has already overtaken most headlines in, what? 15 hours? (8 of which most people were asleep)
