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“Even some Democratic allies have said they believe the White House failed to address the president’s aging with transparency and candor, allowing it to fester while the party lost key months in the effort to vanquish Trump, who they believe is a potentially existential threat to democracy.”
Interviews with more than three dozen aides, advisers, lawmakers, governors and other Biden allies paint a picture of the Biden team’s failure over the past nine days to contain a crisis that is tarnishing his legacy and threatening his presidency.
Biden thought he had it under control. Then it got worse.www.washingtonpost.com The inside story of the Biden team’s failure over nine days to contain the crisis from his debate with Trump.
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Be nice if that existential threat to democracy got as much coverage as the president's aging, wouldn't it?
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Biden supporting a genocide is a the tombstone of American democracy.
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Hoping it's not entirely dead yet.
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No. It is dead. This is the evidence that Americans have no political power that the ruling class feels bound to pay attention to. That's not an existential crisis. It's a crisis.
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I agree there's a crisis. I think if deciding American democracy is dead leads people to not vote, that would be a mistake.
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Vote? Vote? Voooooooote? What?
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"Vote": a democratic right Americans are still able to exercise, that is not in itself sufficient to achieve most people's political goals.
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I am dying to know what you think this response does for your perspective and for the purpose of advancing this conversation.
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My queen, your country is beyond voting. The mere fact of trump's existence cannot be solved by voting him into oblivion. There is a much more profound rot at the heart of your political system. You guys keep kicking this can down the road. When will you stop?
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From Nixon to Murdoch to Palin to Trump. You have something to do about your non-existent democracy that voting has not and will never solve. And the only thing that's truly happening is whiteness giving you guhs the privilege to ignore the absolute destruction of America. But vote, I guess.