Here\u2019s the thing: Bernie failed to grapple with the fact that like Obama, he got an easy ride from a press that hated Hilary Clinton. Once left to his own devices, well, it doesn\u2019t matter how popular you are with voters under 30 if they only make up 15% of the electorate that shows up (as was the case in Michigan). Yeah, Bernie may be big with the young people, and he may be moving the window on Democratic policy goals in future, but when it\u2019s down to two candidates, your viability as a candidate gets marked to market pretty quickly.<\/p>\n
Because it looks like it\u2019s gonna be Joe. Once he proved he could win South Carolina, it\u2019s like everyone said \u201cokay, let\u2019s go\u201d and that was that. He thinks he can win, and he\u2019s not the only one, when you consider that Trump literally just weathered an impeachment that came about as a result of efforts to sandbag Biden out of the race. This is a single issue race, and the issue is \u201cget that orange asshole out of here.\u201d<\/p>\n
I mean, of course it is. We\u2019re seeing the consequences more than ever now. Stock market is officially back in bear territory, and I don\u2019t mean Berkeley. It turns out that slashing the CDC\u2019s budget for pandemic response in 2018 has consequences in 2020. And ironically enough for a solipsistic dementia case who thinks he only has to be the president of the people who voted for him, he\u2019s paved the way for COVID-19 to run riot through the precise demographic that put him in that office to begin with. I mean\u2026buy the ticket, take the ride.<\/p>\n
Which is a warning and an imperative at the same time. This is what we signed up for by not packing our bags and fleeing the country in January 2017. We knew it was going to be harsh, and ugly, and we might not all make it, but there was a chance – one – that the old ways could work one more time, that an election in 2020 could stop the bleeding. And this intersects nicely with Joe Biden, who absolutely should not feel any guilt for not running in 2016, who had every reason to pack it in, but who apparently needed to give it one more run – and who now finds himself as the guy.<\/p>\n
So this time, we know the mission, we know the stakes, and we know what happens if we lose. And the excuses are gone – there\u2019s no speculating about what it might be like for Trump to be President because now there\u2019s four years of economic stagnation outside the NYSE, four years of children in camps, four years of lighting our foreign relations on fire, and now, four years of destroying our defenses against a literal pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We\u2019re out of excuses. This is last call. It\u2019s Joe or go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here\u2019s the thing: Bernie failed to grapple with the fact that like Obama, he got an easy ride from a press that hated Hilary Clinton. Once left to his own devices, well, it doesn\u2019t matter how popular you are with voters under 30 if they only make up 15% of the electorate that shows up … <\/p>\n