Scallionsandeggs

Same. It’s the most out-of-step I’ve ever been with her and Bernie, a bit jarring for me. I mean, I get it, it’s free political capital for progressives to voice support here. But still, as soon as the party started having this conversation through the media, Biden’s candidacy became unviable.

Could be that they are doing this to keep them from dumping Harris too, which might be the necessary compromise for the party in the end.

And now we get to have the conversation as a nation. Maybe it will give some people courage at a difficult time and save some lives on the road.

As someone that’s mostly been an outsider, this playing out has given me more faith in the Democratic Party than I’ve ever had. For as long as I can remember, they’ve been the feckless, controlled opposition party that might occasionally throw some rights and economic opportunity my way by accident. When they lose a presidential election, it’s always “aw, shucks, we’ll get 'em next time.”

This isn’t that. This is the party publicly airing no confidence in their president in July in an election year. This is an emergency and they’ve broken the glass because there’s a real threat to the country.

The glass can’t be unbroken at this point. If somehow Biden still became the nominee, all Trump’s campaign has to do is point out how his party doesn’t even believe he should be president again. The senior party officials knew that going in, and it’s why they must continue to mount private, public, and donor pressure on Biden until he gives it up.