Just a week ago, analysts openly speculated about the multiple routes the Democrat National Committee could take to decide who might replace JOE BIDEN at the top of their Party’s ticket while he disappeared to his beach house in Delaware. He had covid. Only the inner circle and family would see him. Democrat power players like NANCY PELOSI, CHUCK SCHUMER, and BARACK OBAMA were telling him privately, and telegraphing publicly, about his doomed candidacy. Republicans, fresh off their own nominating convention, were more united than ever behind a candidate who had just survived an assassination attempt.
Then last Sunday, in a one-two punch of posts on X, Biden announced he would not accept the Party’s nomination and, minutes later, endorsed KAMALA HARRIS for the top of the ticket. And in the ensuing week, we’ve aged approximately 4,276 days — and deciding whether this is all a welcome development for America and democracy depends on which questions you want answered.
Of all the scenarios for an open, brokered convention for Democrats in August, a swift coronation felt the least likely. After all, how could the party whose very identity hinges on upholding the Will of the People – “our Democracy!” – anoint a leader without a robust, if swift, primary process?
As it turns out, they pulled it off effortlessly – the coronation, that is. Whether by design or desperation for a leader who’s anyone but Biden or DONALD TRUMP,
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