Will Stancil: it’s different groups of people whose political commitments are governed by memes all coalescing around a panicky meme plan where barely anyone has fleshed out anything past step one, and step one is “override the voters to force a democratic president out against his will”

“leftists who have hated Biden for years and opportunistic pundits who have hated Biden for years quickly agreed that the key to beating Trump is to relentlessly attack the duly nominated Democrat until he’s totally unelectable.” with all due respect do people not realize this is extremely bad

it’s different groups of people whose political commitments are governed by memes all coalescing around a panicky meme plan where barely anyone has fleshed out anything past step one, and step one is “override the voters to force a democratic president out against his will”

One reason for relative optimism is that unlike the GOP, D's aren't governed by their dank memers

Besides, before we panic, we should remember Mel Carnahan (and Biden has one obvious advantage over Carnahan):

Mehmet Oz and the Ghost of Mel Carnahanmikethemadbiologist.com For those who don’t recognize the name Mel Carnahan, he was a Democratic Senate candidate from Missouri who defeated his Republican opponent, John Ashcroft (yes, that John Ashcroft) in 2000. …

I guess we will see about that. Hopefully tomorrow's interview shuts up this particular discourse for a while

Stop trying to salvage a fatally wounded candidacy. You cannot turn this around by insisting it’s all a conspiracy to take Biden down. He is not capable of this campaign as we saw with our own eyes — the debate and also the lack of a showing in the week since that the debate was an aberration.

The question is no longer should Biden step aside — that decision is in his hands and I pray he rises to the occasion. The question is what to do now and how to do it in such a way as to field the strongest possible ticket in the fall.

One of the first times i said, “the complainants are way too online pundit sorts who by nature have bladder control issues that give them something to talk about constantly”

What responsible political party would run a candidate that the overwhelming majority of voters believe is already mentally incapable of serving in office? You can go on about hallucinated media driven narratives, but if the candidate can’t *show* voters they are wrong, this view will not change.

the will of the voters was already trampled when the dnc played reanimator with biden and forced a lagging candidate plus a vp who never secured a single delegate across the finish line. and the debate nailed to the wall every doubt people have had about biden's fitness to govern. he needs to go.

Ahh yes, the DNC forcing a candidate who actually won majority support from the actual base of the party to be the nominee. Thanks for broadcasting loudly that no one should listen to anything you have to say

everyone who doubted biden should feel extremely vindicated by the current timbre of discussion, because we saw it coming in 2020. unfortunately, we all have to live with the fallout that's unfolding in real time. this is rbg/weekend at feinstein's cranked up to 11, and it should have been avoided.

So, people who were wrong before and are wrong now should feel vindicated? You appear to have confused the word "vindicated" for the word "humbled" Your candidate lost. They didn't win the support of the actual base of the party, who isn't you. Suck it up buttercup

lost and ratfucked have very different connotations. we're in the 'find out' phase of a party only concerned with crushing its left flank to the point where the one thing standing between authoritarian rule is a mumbling cadaver who spent 50 years courting republican favor to boost his own prospects

Lost is what happened. Ratfucked is what you keep crying because you can't accept that you lost a fair contest. You're not the base of the party. You're not its sole focus. You're not the center of their universe. Deal with it

Can you make a credible argument that this is the wrong course of action, please?

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