“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.
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:
