no one has explained the mindless (and pointless) irresponsibility of current press coverage as well as this from @Dahlialithwick,
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"ask yourself why Biden, who is stipulated #Old, has managed to helm the most successful presidency in modern history.
"the reason: he has for the most part surrounded himself with experts, genuine scientists, respected economists, effective governmental actors and advisers."
"the reason: he has for the most part surrounded himself with experts, genuine scientists, respected economists, effective governmental actors and advisers."
"Governance is not an action film.
"There is no psychodrama w/someone in a black T-shirt mincing along the ledge of a skyscraper, ninja-kicking his way down to the stairwell, where he karate-chops the baddies and then crawls his way into a vault where the nuclear reactor sits."
"There is no psychodrama w/someone in a black T-shirt mincing along the ledge of a skyscraper, ninja-kicking his way down to the stairwell, where he karate-chops the baddies and then crawls his way into a vault where the nuclear reactor sits."
"No.
"Despite our fascination with the Great Man theory of American lawmaking, the presidency is an office that largely turns on staffing, planning, negotiation, and execution.
"Joe Biden doesn’t have to remember every single detail himself - he has to use his judgment."
"Despite our fascination with the Great Man theory of American lawmaking, the presidency is an office that largely turns on staffing, planning, negotiation, and execution.
"Joe Biden doesn’t have to remember every single detail himself - he has to use his judgment."
"If you are unconvinced, the best evidence that we keep falling for Great Man fantasy propaganda is the unmitigated failure of the Trump presidency.
"Here we had a self-described loner literally trumpeting his I-alone-can-fix-it worldview, all embodied in Great Man megalomania."
"Here we had a self-described loner literally trumpeting his I-alone-can-fix-it worldview, all embodied in Great Man megalomania."
"He managed to accomplish virtually nothing: Almost none of his promises for single-handed economic revitalization, world domination, or intrepid urban crime-solving panned out.
"His great dreams were either strangled in infancy by staffers or halted by courts."
"His great dreams were either strangled in infancy by staffers or halted by courts."
"Trump may be four-years-less-elderly, but he still confuses Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi.
"He is also still an authoritarian fantasist who has run through every reasonably competent staffer and Cabinet official and is now turning to the profoundly dangerous ones."
"He is also still an authoritarian fantasist who has run through every reasonably competent staffer and Cabinet official and is now turning to the profoundly dangerous ones."
"the question is reducible to rather simple stakes:
"Do you want the Big Daddy who surrounds himself with sycophants and nutters and people with shared last names, or the one who surrounds himself with competence and expertise?
"This doesn’t seem like a really tricky call."
"Do you want the Big Daddy who surrounds himself with sycophants and nutters and people with shared last names, or the one who surrounds himself with competence and expertise?
"This doesn’t seem like a really tricky call."
"Perhaps we prefer presidents who can ninja-kick their way to total world dominion.
"nobody ever made a Tom Cruise movie about listening and learning and compromising.
"But if you believe governance a serious enterprise, vote like the alternative is chilling, because it is."
"nobody ever made a Tom Cruise movie about listening and learning and compromising.
"But if you believe governance a serious enterprise, vote like the alternative is chilling, because it is."
one last point
some commentators will say they agree w/Dahlia, but Democrats could somehow still push Biden aside to
field a younger/stronger candidate.
has anyone who knows the first thing about winning presidential elections credibly explained just how that could
happen?
no
some commentators will say they agree w/Dahlia, but Democrats could somehow still push Biden aside to
field a younger/stronger candidate.
has anyone who knows the first thing about winning presidential elections credibly explained just how that could
happen?
no
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