Your final paragraph is kind of the central point they’re making, though. There seems to be a public mood of antipathy towards incumbent administration, which is bad news for Biden and the Democrats. People are fed up of the way things are and want a change, and Biden is deeply unpopular.
In order to convincingly beat Trump they need to do something bold: either offer a fresher, younger candidate or make big, daring bi-partisan policy plays on healthcare, education, more affordable housing, etc.
If they do nothing but stick to the old “vote for Biden and ‘business as usual’ because it’s the only way to beat fascism”, it looks like it may not be enough.
I agree with you on most points except your first: the central point Vox made was to dump Biden as if that was the only option. I WISH Vox suggested a daring change – or ANY other option. Personally, I don’t think that simply replacing Biden would seal the deal.
I do absolutely agree that the U.S. public seems to blame Biden for inflation and credits Trump with … what? wanting retribution? As if being a wind bag means a person is a strong leader? At the least, too many potential voters seem to have forgotten that a consensus of countries ousted their monarchs/dictators in favor of either democracy or communism. Populations everywhere seem to agree that strong man leaders are both bad for the people and painfully hard to remove. Further, lots of U.S. citizens lost relatives fighting Nazis, so why are they trying to give Nazis power now? We fought that war. We paid in lives to stop that. It dishonors the dead to just give in to it now.
make big, daring bi-partisan policy plays on healthcare, education, more affordable housing, etc.
As the head of the executive branch, the President is over the DEA and the Department of Education.
Given the new “absolute immunity for official acts” SCOTUS has now ordained him with, Biden should absolutely cancel all federal student debt and move marijuana to Schedule V. Do this a month before the election and he’d coast.
