This is a marvelously succinct articulation of the stakes of the 2024 election. It's by @mjsdc.bsky.social and it was how he summed up the implications of the most recent SCOTUS decisions. The theater criticism about which candidate performed better on Thursday obscures these massive stakes.
Here's a link to the full conversation. It's depressing as hell, but still very much worth your time. What the right wing SCOTUS has been up to over the past few years is the latest iteration of a very long, anti-New-Deal-State project that's been at work since the 1930s. slate.com/podcasts/ami...
Wonder if we’ll see some business backlash against this, actually. The uncertainty #SCOTUS unleashing will hurt investment, courts will not be able to handle the questions thrown at the them, both for lack of expertise and the sheer volume of cases…
It’s not so much a fear of whether Biden can serve as president so much as can he be an effective candidate against Trump.
Then again, the punditocracy freakout is probably exactly what’s outlined there, because they’re not sending us their best.
The stakes are high, which means the only thing that matters is to select the candidate with the best chance of beating Trump. That requires Biden to step aside now, and not attempt to determine his replacement. Either Harris or Whitmer has some chance, Biden near-zero,