Don’t shoot the messenger. I’m sharing this because it’s noteworthy that two of the quite different political subcultures I follow (Never Trumpers and left-leaning analysts of the US right) have been very forthright in calling for Biden to pass the torch. thedispatch.com/newsletter/d...
The people named here regularly make no bones about their belief that more progressive Democrats (I.e. anyone who would replace Biden) are a) bad and b) don’t represent what the American public wants. This makes their advocacy for Biden to step aside even more surprising.
That's the key to understanding the sincerity. I'm probably closest to them in (ha) constitution and habit. I'm an engineer that hates watching control systems start oscillating wildly, like a rocket engine suddenly wobbling in multiple directions at once. It's this "Oh shit oh shit" sensibility.
I guess that's conservative of a sort. Maybe in the same way someone telling you, Seth, that we really need a new system and how bad can the replacement be .
Agree entirely. These are folks who in the 80s and 90s thought "the radical left" was an illiberal threat to American democracy (they were wrong, but whatevs) and so they railed against it...now they recognize that our historical equilibrium is under massive stress and strain from the right.
Exactly. Putting a metaphor back in my wheelhouse, it's like how surprised people are to see how powerful hydraulic lifting action can be and me over here in my proverbial hard hat going "Oh honey child".
I don't see how former members of the GOP who failed to stop the erosion of their own party should have any say in this...much less a direct audience with the Biden campaign.
It's like Dr Frankenstein telling the villagers they need to listen to him on how to stop his monster.
These people here need to shut the fuck up and go away and never be in public again because they helped make Trump possible.
Totally agree. The only never Trumper that seems to realize they had a part in creating him is Jennifer Rubin. Everyone else seems to cling to movement conservatism's Sacred Values as still sacred, instead of realizing those values were bad faith lies.
It is only noteworthy in their narcissistic hearts. They need to fuck the hell off. Though, Bill Krystal, is never right so maybe it is good he's part of this folly.
