Man one thing this whole debacle has driven home is how much the pundit class believes themselves and their own weird obsessive worldview to be like a perfect reflection of the Soul of a Nation despite being consistently wrong/out of step with polling
nobody polls better against Trump than Biden. this dream of where another Democrat steps in and wins 35 states is not happening and it has little to do with Biden
absolutely cooked brains, full of completely unfounded ideas that barely function even in a theoretical vacuum, let alone having a remote chance of working irl
but then when reality doesn't match the smug-yet-bonkers theorycrafting, that's reality's fault
Didn't Gretchen already say she wasn't gonna run? Like her and Gavin Newsom both said they wouldn't, yet they keep mentioning them anyway. It's wishcasting.
Nothing can be a Problem until they, borg-like, perceive it as a Problem, at which point Something must immediately Be Done, regardless of how disruptive that would be. These people are like fucking toddlers
The fact that it took so little time for the pundit class to completely molt and stand naked, glistening, and revealed as the lickspittles, fart-catchers, and shoe fellaters they always were both took forever, and seemed to happen instantly.