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Cheese's avatar

I am sad about Biden, he was a rare gust of decency on a world stage increasingly cluttered with the mediocre and the corrupt. He was very much the better America.

I think history will judge him as a great president, and the mainstream news press as we judge late18th century French aristocrats. Let them race horses.

And I think stepping down in favour of Harris demonstrated that fundamental decency. Right now, I want to concentrate on bringing the fight to Trump.

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>> Recent polling showed Biden on a downward trajectory to lose to Trump in an Electoral College rout. Biden was down in almost every swing state. It wasn’t “bedwetters” who thought Biden couldn’t win. It was Democratic leaders and politicians with experience running campaigns. <<

I'm not at all saying you're wrong, but I'd like to add that the people bashing Biden didn't wait for that evidence, and it's at least **plausible** that had they held their tongues, such a trajectory would never have manifested.

As such, I see this as bullying by an anti-democratic monied class. I would not have seen it the same way had people waited for the polling evidence to emerge before the bashing began.

And it's not that I've felt like the Democratic Party was chock full of folks who believe in people-over-profits, but as much as I am all in on Harris, I won't forget the behaviour of those folks quick to shiv Biden.

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