I can't quite believe it myself, but this piece is even stupider than its title—
Biden Should Run on a Unity Ticket With Romney—predicts. Way, way stupider. politico.com/magazine/story…
Biden Should Run on a Unity Ticket With Romney—predicts. Way, way stupider. politico.com/magazine/story…
Best, stupidest line: "throwing the election to [a presumptively GOP-controlled] House seems just as risky as relying on the Democrats to nominate someone who can win 270 electoral votes."
The stated premise of the piece, by the way, is that a Biden-Romney third-party ticket would defeat the Democratic slate in EVERY STATE CLINTON WON. Not just do better than Clinton. Beat the Democratic nominee. While managing not to split the vote and give Trump any of them.
And yes, the author's fantasy is that this ticket would enact sweeping centrist reforms in "Social Security, Medicare, health care, climate change, money in politics, immigration, gerrymandering and infrastructure investment." But set that aside.
"Bloomberg [or whoever] will save the center right from Trump" fantasias were a dime a dozen in 2016–17, and they'll be a dime a dozen in 2019–20. They're part of the landscape. You get one free when you buy ten gallons of gas.
This is that, yes. But it's that executed in the medium of warm poop.
It's mesmerising.
