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Thoughts On An Open Democratic Convention
(Please read the whole thing before commenting fury at me.)
I am not committed to replacing Biden. However, I think the debate around the idea is productive because Biden quite plainly owes Democratic voters the reassurance that he isn’t as vacant all the time as he seemed on live television during the debate.
I do think a candidate better at cogently reminding voters how shitty Trump is would be better for this election. Biden was utterly incapable of doing that at the debate. Literally incapable. He didn’t really make a case against Trump, he bungled all his policy ideas and pre-planned lines, and he looked too tired to repudiate Trump and everything a second Trump term would be about.
Don’t get me wrong, I will be voting for and supporting Biden if he stays in the race, even if he died today and was just a pile of bones on election day. His administration has been competent and put America on a much better track than Trump was taking us. From the infrastructure spending to the anti-inflation measures, the stimulus on technology and energy to the deft foreign policy reinforcing our alliances against Russian and Chinese attacks on the rules-based order, the Biden team has accomplished more than I thought was politically possible. So if Biden is the candidate, he absolutely has my vote.
