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NYT bestselling Trump biographer. Lawyer. Songwriter. Journalism professor (retired). More: https://t.co/C61aEoBmYZ, https://t.co/j6EVBmIW3k

Jul 10, 2024, 13 tweets

I’m a Democrat, and I’m with Biden.

Our party voted for him. He’s one of the great American presidents. He beat Trump in 2020 and will beat him again. He polls better against Trump than anyone else in the party.

F*cking with our votes and deposing our leader is a grave mistake.

There’s *zero* evidence—not a *shred* of evidence *anywhere*—that Harris, Pritzker, Newsom, Moore, Shapiro, Whitmer, or any other Democrat can defeat Trump. Their polling is worse and they’ve no path to victory. Think otherwise? *You’re* the one living in a fantasy world, not us.

I’m sick and f*cking tired of being told Biden supporters have blinders on—even as those contesting our position have *no* polls to point to, *no* history to point to, and *no* medical records to point to to support their position. Indeed, *all* the *facts* are on the other side.

No one polls better than Biden. Parties that switch horses this late *lose*—*every goddamn time*. America is racist and misogynistic and is *champing at the bit* to pull the same sh*t on Harris or Shapiro or Pritzer or Whitmer or Moore that they did to Clinton. Know your country.

The presidential race is close because America is a f*cked-up country that’s obsessed with Trump right now—largely because media made him, media needs him, and media sustains him. The people saying President Biden is the problem are the assholes who gave us Trump to begin with.

If you have some little princess fantasy in your head of the swooningly perfect candidate everyone will just *adore* and *no one* will *attack*, you are a f*cking child and I have no use for you. *You* are the delusional onanistic imbecile, not people who see the score as it is.

Here’s the score: Donald Trump thinks only a white guy can beat him and God help us it *sucks* but right now he’s right. That’s why we need a man who’s beaten him (handily) before, has the bully pulpit, has the gravitas of the presidency, and polls better against him than anyone.

This election will be close as hell. It was *always* going to be close as hell because America sucks right now—half of us were conned by a born loser with ten layers of orange bronzer on his disgusting face. Your *fantasy* that this would be easy with somebody else is *pathetic*.

Is it possible democracy will lose? You bet your *ass* it is. Because—see prior tweets—America sucks right now. But the fact that this’ll be neck and neck *doesn’t logically equate* to someone else have a better shot than Biden.

That math doesn’t math because it’s *wishcasting*.

You want to be like Trump and try to undo a national vote? You want to spit in the face of your own voters? You want to fall into an *obvious MAGA trap*? You want to show the sort of fecklessness MAGAs think all Democrats natively possess? You want to be led by the nose by media?

We can’t stop you in most of those things, as none of us can pull a lever to keep others from being f*cknuts.

But *don’t* f*cking lie to our faces and say the polls support your coup; they don’t.

*Don’t* say history says you’re right—as in fact it says you’re courting disaster.

And it’s already been established that President Biden has no cognitive issues—read the medical report from February yourself—and that his issues in June are behind him because they were caused by a foreign trip schedule *even the NYT says* would’ve devastated a man half his age.

You want to do a coup because some billionaire donor said so? Because some media titan said so? Because a handful of Democrats out of 260 in Congress are cowards? Go ahead—try it. Be a silly little wishcaster. But don’t BULLSHIT us that you’re the tough ones. You’re soft as hell.

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