So typical of our awful political media class to decide that, because THEY believe Newsom or Buttigieg or whoever would be a better candidate than Biden, the actual Democratic primary process conducted by millions of voters should be unceremoniously dumped aside. So contemptuous of actual politics
I’m sure there are candidates who’d do better than Biden, that’s not the issue, it’s the arrogance of people who spend all their time doing horse-race commentary in exchange for fat paychecks treating real people’s political participation as an afterthought. Process is for the Normals, you see
Yes. Thank you. This rubs me the wrong way and seems to be agreeing with all of the "it's a republic and not a democracy" types who come out of the woodwork every time a different part of the country gets disenfranchised.
They’re thinking back to how Eric Baker nearly took the nomination from Matt Santos in a floor vote and how that didn’t deliver victory to Arnie Vinick.
Basically everyone — pundits, the Democrat-Hating Left, people still relitigating the 2016 primaries — are really all saying the same thing. "Obviously the majority of the voters were wrong and my opinion should be the only one that counts."
This is why the people who consume the most of this content think in the same pundit terms and not as an actual voter and participant in the process. Just endless worrying about what others will think or how a policy will "play", no thought into whether it is actually good or bad.
"You're asking me to put my column, and my podcast, and my book - look for it in April!- and my Substack - my brand! - in one pan of the balance, and the good of the country in the other pan, and choose the good of my country?
Pull the other leg. It's got bells on it."
Actually, the whole political process does. She alone can use all the already-raised Biden campaign cash, for example. There's a vast gap between the commentariat's dreamworld & the actual word in which nitty-gritty politics happens.
It’s probably not good that a whole mob of pundits are wishcasting dramatic West Wing twists that all rely on everyone saying “oh sure just ignore those pesky laws” and it’s getting treated as serious reporting and not shitposting
It would also be a really neat trick to run a ge campaign based on how great Biden & Harris's term was if the party has kicked them both off the ticket four months out.
She preserves at least to some degree the value of incumbency.
This definitely plays into how they talk about Trump. The elites have decided to normalize him so everyone else must go along or they lose their meal ticket.
