political journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”
given the overwhelming number of targets with the trump administration and the republican majority in congress, it is actually bonkers to think that democrats have anything to gain from litigating biden. let the guy disappear and focus on the stuff that is unpopular with voters!
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the single best thing democrats could do to win back trust with voters — and a good number of those voters who have a low opinion of the democratic party are democrats themselves! — is adopt an aggressively partisan orientation toward republicans and loudly perform their opposition
i think your typical democratic voter will respond much better to "they hate this motherfucker in the white house as much as i do" than endless flagellation over biden, especially since the latter looks weak and reinforces all the worst stereotypes about democrats!
whenever i travel to speak to audiences — in places as different as green bay, wisconsin and durham, north carolina — i get more questions about why the media won’t call a spade a spade with trump, than i do about biden being old
*cable news host who ran more 2024 segments on trumps claim that kamala harris isnt really Black than segments on what due process would look like for trumps mass deportation*: “ive taken time to reflect and im sorry i didnt say joe biden was old more”
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the serving president is plainly in steep mental decline and that almost certainly is contributing to the most dog-brained tariff policy in world history? don't care. the real scandal is that in 2024, we only published a mere 10,000 stories about Biden being old
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And as soon as Democrats stopped flying to the gulag and everyone stopped talking about it, Trump’s immigration numbers started climbing back up
so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?
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The thing is that we're having the discourse about Biden because Tapper and Thompson wrote a book in late 2024 under the impression of a Harris victory. That didn't happen but the rollout stayed the same because of sunk cost.
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