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Dan Nexon@dhnexon.bsky.social |
TBH, I think the democratic freakout is far more damaging than the debate itself would have been. If they'd all come out and said "POTUS was clearly tired and fighting off a cold, now let's talk about Trump's answers" we'd be having a different conversation.
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@heyblinkin.bsky.social
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The thing is that his surrogates (and the President) were out there saying he did great. If Joe himself just came out and said, "yknow what I had a cold, I was not at my best," it would give us a better narrative choice than a) complete freakout, or b) rejecting the evidence of our eyes and ears.
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@prairieguy2623.bsky.social
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We’d also have a different Democratic Party. We’ve had decades now to figure out that neither Republicans nor the Establishment Media care about truth and operate in good faith. Why we keep playing by rules that screw us every time is baffling to me.
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Dan Nexon
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If this performance really is 1) a mask-off moment or 2) for whatever reason, he's not going to be able to sound more like he did at the SOTU, then it's fine for the Ds to have these discussions — in private, over the weekend. What we saw => political malpractice; typical lack of D discipline, etc.
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Sid Eschenbach
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Sure. The problem with that is we've all had colds, and that's not what we saw. He saved the republic in '20 and is a great president, but time catches us all. There's no shame in that other than denial. He should quietly pick a unity ticket, step aside and support them. It's in his hands.
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