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Will Democrats Dump Biden?

Very possibly.

As was shown at the recent White House event with Obama, Democrats are over Biden. The question is, which way do they dump him? Tucker Carlson has some thoughts.

Carlson: It’s hard to remember now because history is pretty hazy, but it was just three years ago that Joe Biden was considered too decrepit, too corrupt, too out-of-touch ever to be president. And that wasn’t just the view from the right, by the way. They mostly stayed out of it. That’s what faithful Democrats were saying.

In 2019, three separate neoliberal news outlets, the Guardian, the Week and CNN, all published op-eds with the exact same headline: “Why Joe Biden Shouldn’t Run for President.” Other publications made the same point with equal vehemence. “I really like Joe Biden, but he shouldn’t run for president,” said a columnist for USA Today.

“Joe Biden is not helping,” declared Rolling Stone as if the goal was to help. And actually Biden’s family agreed with this. This is true. They did not want him to be president, either. Some of Biden’s closest relatives assured friends that Biden was running merely to work off the grief from his son’s death two years before. It made a kind of sense. He needed to get out on the road and clear his head and a campaign was the way to do that.

He knew he wasn’t going to win. And for months, it seemed all but assured that he wouldn’t win. Biden’s first debate performance in June was widely written off as a disaster. It seemed pretty obvious he had zero chance of the nomination and then Bernie Sanders started to win primaries. For the second presidential cycle in a row, Sanders proved to be the only Democrat in the field with legitimate grassroots support. Donors saw this and they panicked. The guy who hates billionaires! What’s he going to do to Wall Street?

So, Sanders was unacceptable to the people who fund the Democratic Party, but there was a problem. What were the options? Pete Buttigieg and Beto O’Rourke? No. Both had turned out to be lighter than air. Elizabeth Warren, double no. Kamala Harris was horrible on every level. Absolutely nobody liked Kamala Harris and for good reason. So, it turned out to be Joe Biden by default. “Get out the Biden signs. We’re all in,” and of course, the media got the message immediately. By the time he was inaugurated, here’s what the Press Corps was telling you about Joe Biden.

NICOLLE WALLACE: “There is a sense, I think, the world over, that the adults have returned.”

JONATHAN CAPEHART: “We have an adult in the White House now and it’s glorious.”

These people. Never an original thought among them! “He’s an adult. It’s glorious.” Well, half true. Biden is certainly an adult. He’ll be 80 this fall, but no one in Washington thinks the Biden presidency is glorious anymore. They think it’s a disaster. Polls show that voters strongly agree…

Individuals are irrelevant to the party. The group is all that matters. No one at the DNC actually cares about Joe Biden or ever has, or for that matter, cares about George Floyd or Greta Thunberg or David Hogg or anyone else they tell you is an irreplaceable hero. All people are expendable. What matters is the party and the party matters because in numbers, there is power. And of course, on some level, Joe Biden knows this. He’s spent his life in the Democratic Party. He’s never worked outside of the Democratic Party, so he understands how this ends. Inevitably, after 50 years, it is his turn to be eliminated. Will he scream for mercy like Beria did or will he take it like a man? That’s the only question. Biden can’t lead, therefore, at some point soon, he won’t be allowed to lead.

 

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