It wasn’t meant as an insult, it’s just that left-wing discussions often circle around the way we wish the world was. Man, if only the press would report on Trump the way they hound Biden for his age. Sure, but the press won’t do that! You can loathe the way the NY Times reports on this, but you won’t change it, unfortunately, and to claim that Biden could have come back from that is, to me, being blind to how these things work. Remember Hillary’s emails?
Similarly, Gavin Newsome would guarantee memes about Don Jr. having taken his girlfriend, and now Don Sr. taking his country. Silly, and sexist, and with no bearing on the actual job, but still worth a few percent of votes unfortunately. The same way some white dudes will now wring their hands and look for any reason to not vote for the black woman.
And I think it’s naive to think that the primaries were an open forum for anyone to try oneself against Biden. I don’t begrudge party politics - it’s important to have some kind of leadership and united messaging. But it was very clear early on that Biden wanted to run again and if the incumbent wants to run, you anoint him.
Sure, on paper anyone could have run against him. But it was equally unlikely that anyone would. And either way, no challenge was presented in the primaries. What I spoke against was the idea that the voters in the primaries made their preferences clear and it would be undemocratic for those votes to not be counted. Fact is, Biden did not win the primaries against anyone (unless you want to count fringe candidates), it was party politics. If party politics now foce him to withdraw, then both are equally democratic or undemocratic.
Let me just add to a question above: I was referring to live stream by AOC where she seemed to say that people clamoring for Biden to be replaced shouldn’t be so quick to do so on the assumption that Kamala Harris would be next in line. I understood that the way I said above.
