President Joe Biden and the runup to the 2024 election

Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign strategist Stuart Stevens could be whistling past the graveyard, sure. But his takes are still a useful reframing of recent events.

"Don’t day trade politics. It’s a sucker’s game. A guy from Queens out on bail bragged about overturning Roe v. Wade, said in public he didn’t have sex with a porn star, defended tax cuts for billionaires, defended Jan. 6th. and called America the worst country in the world.

That guy isn’t going to win this race."

… and this old saw: