The qualities of the candidate often do not fucking matter if the people who really want that candidate to get elected are willing to play hardball, especially if the candidate is an incumbent.
Maybe, just this once, we could learn this lesson from the GOP to save ourselves from true horror.
The GOP lines up to vote for whoever the GOP candidate is. They don't 2nd guess, sulk at home, or vote 3rd party. They want to win & keep Dems out of power & never miss an election. They began the fight to control SCOTUS in 1977. They know winners make policy; losers go home.
Wouldn’t that be nice. Notice how republicans get be hind their candidate no matter what? For gods sake people, we need to band together to protect our democracy!
This is a knife fight for our freedom I want people who will (usually metaphorically, though also definitely literally) shank a motherfucker to save millions of lives.
They really are just pining for Obama that America will fall in love with and make the election easy, but (frankly), I'm not enthused about an Obama who gets people to fall in love with his personality while allowing the party down-ballot to wither.
I keep saying this and it's like...no one understands the reality of our current circumstances.
No one has learned a damn thing.
And the Dems will continue to try to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
The flaw in that logic is most dem voters are too soft hearted. Not the young leftist vocal ones on the internet. The rest of them.
If Biden used the same dirty politics Trump and his cohorts use, or the political violence he is threatening to use, he would be abandoned by the dem base.