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The idea that that the process of jettisoning Biden & choosing someone else will go well -- will be allowed to go well -- is a deeply deranged fantasy. [ David Roberts ] (threadreaderapp.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The debate was simply the moment that Democrats admitted to each other that the emperor has no clothes, but even before the debate everyone already knew that a president who would turn 86 in office was almost certainly not capable of carrying out all the duties of that office. So now that people have started saying it, they're not going to stop, and that's a good thing if it gets a candidate likely to lose in November off of the ballot.

IMO the best case scenario would have been Biden withdrawing graciously and naming Harris as his successor in order to avoid a fight at the Democratic convention, but Biden clearly doesn't think so, and so my guess is that neither keeping him nor forcing him out are likely to lead to victory.