Why is the former president and leader of the one of two political parties not the status quo?
Gore was status quo, but if he'd won we wouldn't have had the war in Iraq.
Hilary was the status quo, but if she won we'd still have Roe v Wade.
If you vote republican, you will get the status quo with an added disaster or two mixed in.
Biden ended the war in Afghanistan after 20 years. You just don't like that he sells military hardware to other countries, but that's what every president, even Jimmy Carter, does.
Bernie had 4 years to shore up his weakness with black voters, the same issue he ran into against Hilary and didn't.
Bernie could've offered Pete VP to stay in the race and continue splitting the centrist vote, but he didn't.
In the timeline where Bernie won, and also beat Trump, we'd be dealing with progressives feeling betrayed that he inevitably did what ever other US president would do and sent weapons to Israel after Oct 7th.
Same reason every independent store and restaurant gets replaced by a chain.
People want what's familiar. Both these men won their primaries and have the most support out of anyone in their parties.
Gay marriage is toast
It wasn't a debate. It was 2 hours of clip harvesting in which the right got everything they could possibly want while the left got squat diddly
Biden used to be really good against that tactic, it's why he won the debate in 2012 against Paul Ryan. Ryan gish galloped and Biden responded with a simple 'POPPYCOCK!'. It worked.
It's 50% a desire to stay informed and 50% sports entertainment
It was like watching 9/11 all over again, Joe.
They will make a bunch of super cuts of Trump talking confidently and then Biden trailing off and getting confused. They will flood Facebook and Tiktok with them.
It was a terrible format. I thought the point of being able to mute them would to keep their answers on question but we got 3 minutes streams of consciousness where the guys rambled off as many of the talking points as they could before the timer ran out.
If Biden had been coached to provide very short, sweet, direct answers and not had an audible death rattle in his voice, he would've won.
Canada getting PP too.
This will be a pretty critical 6 years to prepare for the climate apocalypse coming up, and we'll all be going into it with the worst possible leaders imaginable.