Thread by @TheRickWilson

1/ It's an interesting barometer; I post a fairly anodyne tweet that Biden is in and my TL floods with a) Angry MAGAs, and B) Angry B*ernie Bros.

I know Biden's issues very well, and even as front runner he's got a long road, but may I introduce you to our friend, Mr. Name ID?

2/ It's a nontrivial matter. There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip for Joe, and his oppo book is about three miles thick, but he's a known quantity, he loves the media and the media loves him, and he's lost every goddamn thing in the world that matters and keeps going.

3/ No, mouthbreathers, I'm not endorsing Biden. I'm observing that he's got challenges and assets the rest of the field lacks. He's old, but so is Trump. He both has a certain character and *is* a certain character. He makes the race more interesting, win or lose.

4/ An aside: in my handful of encounters with Biden, he's affable, likable, and engages with people in a hearty, warm way. Not a lot of the "take these filthy peasants away and bathe me in Purell" fussiness. Does that matter? I think it might. We'll see.

5/ OMG. A DM from a B*rnie Bro account, possibly a troll. "We're sick of old white men."

Uhhhhhhhhh...ok.

6/ Biden's choice to go right at Charlottesville and Trump's "very fine people" nod-and-wink to the alt-right isn't subtle., and that's by design. It will rile Trump. Today is going to be a challenge for Trump to not tweet about it.

7/ Open questions: can he raise the $? What does Obama do? How does this shape the field? Does Biden's good-guy populism scale? Watch Fox very carefully in the next 48 hours. It'll be a great tell as to how Trump world feels about Biden.

So endeth.