Funny, because that sounds like the GOP. The Dems are infamous (not entirely fairly but not entirely unfairly) for factioning, infighting, not sticking to a party line, panicking at the drop of a hat, giving up and going home, and generally being a circular firing squad. “I’m not a member of any organized party, I’m a Democrat.”
I thought maybe with MAGA/Freedom Caucus vs. establishment GOP that some of that bad juju had been passed off to the other side – see the House speaker fight(s). Silly me.
Maybe a little toeing the line and circling the wagons just this once would do the party some good … and the nation too considering who’s on the other side of the ballot.
I was thinking more of what most historians, in countries with academic freedom, and freedom of the press, might write. If Trump and successors gained control over U.S. universities and publishers, you would be correct, for the United States, until we went back to being a free country.
It would have been better to stick to my point rather than guessing about future authors.
I’m not sure if I’m on board with that at this point, as much as I’d rather it have been the case months ago, while he was being rammed down our throats. Right now, beating Trump is Paramount, but it’s so late in the process.
There’s a lot of blame to go around, here, imho. I’m so disillusioned.
The blame is in many places, but SCOTUS can certainly take some of it because of today’s ruling that empowers Trump to a great degree, encouraging his followers.
For spirited defense of circle-the-wagons, read the last four days of the Votemaster (www.elecoralvote.com and use the back button for previous days). They give strong arguments why dropping Biden this late in the game would be a fatal mistake. At least they convinced me. Incidentally, they blame the prep, which filled Biden up with facts, instead of attacking Trump and his firehose of lies.
I’ve never thought Joe Biden had any real intention of running for a second term. As I recall, he presented himself as a kind-of bridge between generations. I feel the Democratic Party let him down, and lacking any real alternatives, he felt he had no choice. They’ve made very little effort to cultivate younger members of the party and promote them as nationally recognized persons and potential leaders. Just my $.02.
I think that was just an assumption on many people’s parts. Biden never said he was not going to run for a 2nd term. When you have been chasing a role for decades it is going to be hard to give it up. The Democrats have plenty of other viable options.