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Minutes after I wrote an essay arguing that Joe Biden should resign the Presidency, making Kamala Harris President and presumptive candidate in November, Biden made the announcement I was hoping he wouldn\u2019t make; that he wasn\u2019t going to run for reelection, and wasn\u2019t endorsing anyone to replace him.<\/p>\n
I muttered \u201ccrap\u201d and hurriedly added a note to my piece, which had argued that Biden not running and not endorsing Harris would be the worst decision he could make. I noted the two previous times an incumbent had made that decision (Truman and LBJ) the Democrats lost badly in the ensuing election.<\/p>\n
I went and took a nap (over 100 outside, but don\u2019t worry: Trump says climate change is a hoax) feeling depressed.<\/p>\n
And when I woke up an hour later, a seismic shift had occurred. Joe Biden from his COVID sickbed gave a roaring endorsement of Kamala Harris, and I watched in sheer amazement as the party coalesced around her in a way I\u2019ve never seen Democrats do\u2014not even in 2008, when the party was spellbound by the Obama magic. In the following 24 hours, an unprecedented $81 million in donations rolled in, followed by an announcement from the Soros family that they would be opening the fiscal floodgates to support Harris. An incredible 28,000 people signed up to actively campaign for her. In one day.<\/p>\n
In the same period, every Democrat who might plausibly mount a run against Harris endorsed her. Even Joe Manchin, who considered an implausible run briefly, looked over the new political landscape and endorsed her. All but a handful of party leaders have fallen in line, with only the Obamas and Clintons yet to weigh in.<\/p>\n
I wondered about that naptime that occurred between what I considered a disastrous move by Biden and the announcement that galvanized the party in a way never seen before. In just one day, they\u2019ve come from trailing Trump in the polls to all but having put this to bed. What happened in that hour?<\/p>\n
What I\u2019m hearing is the original announcement was one that Biden and Nancy Pelosi reached. Pelosi was of the strong opinion that voters would not like what would amount to a coronation of Harris by Biden. And in normal circumstances, she probably would have a point. Americans are adverse to \u201csmoke filled room\u201d nominations, which is why the primary process came about in the first place. Although again, 1952 and 1968 showed what a party in disarray just months before an election because the incumbent decides not to run accomplishes.<\/p>\n
Biden must have thought along similar lines, and I get the feeling he simply blind-sided Pelosi. Biden is old, and may sometimes be a bit confused, but he\u2019s a long way from senile, and his political insticts are still sharp\u2014as is his resolve. He understood that even if he felt up to the job, the ongoing doubts, exacerbated by right wing smears and propaganda, meant he couldn\u2019t win, and nor could \u201cplayer to be named later.\u201d So he endorsed Harris, perhaps the most brilliant move of his career.<\/p>\n
About an hour ago, Pelosi endorsed Harris. Her political instincts are every bit as good as they have ever been, and she\u2019s one of the best in the business.<\/p>\n
I fully expect to hear endorsements from the Clintons and the Obamas in the next day or so. Making this as close to a unanimous choice that the Democratic Party has ever come.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s a damned solid candidate, smarter, tougher, and a better person than Trump.<\/p>\n
The Republicans are in a blind panic. They are in the position of the dog who caught the car. They worked hard to drive Biden out, but now they find their own propaganda working against them. Suddenly, the national focus is where it should have been all along\u2014on Trump. Is he senile? Is he crazy? Is he evil? Is he stupid? Is he immoral? Is he dishonest?<\/p>\n
Yes.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s everything they accused Biden of, and much worse. Defending Trump is not going to be fun.<\/p>\n
Mike Johnson, the worst speaker in American history, declared he would sue the Democratic Party for a bait-and-switch on their primary voters. Quite aside from the fact that he lacks standing (even the Heritage Foundation stooges on the Supine Court would have trouble getting around that), the Dems do have the option of replacing the primary winner should he or she prove unfit at any time before the election. And like most such Republican schemes, Johnson\u2019s brainstorm could backfire on him, because Trump IS unfit for office, and may blow up and do or say something so egregiously mental that even the Republicans realize he has to go. And unlike the Democrats, the Republicans have HAD their convention, the one with all the felons and people with sanitary napkins strapped to their ears, and have formally nominated Trump.<\/p>\n
Oops.<\/p>\n
The dirtbag contingent are in full flame mode, calling Harris \u201ca DEI hire\u201d (the new phrase for n*****) and brought up the old chestnut that she came to power by sleeping with Willie Brown*. Because Republicans can\u2019t imagine a woman rising to power without giving blowjobs, which leads to questions about MT-G or Bobo or any of the harpies of the GOP.<\/p>\n
Well, they speak well for the GOP, don\u2019t they?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s still a long way to election day, and the National Association of Zealots and Ideologues is going to spend many billions to overthrow the election and stage a christofascist coup, so we aren\u2019t out of the woods.<\/p>\n
But I feel a whole lot better about our prospects now.<\/p>\n
And once again, with deep feeling: Thank you, Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
* Willie Brown was a legendary Speaker of the Assembly in California and then Mayor of San Francisco over a thirty year period. His was a colorful and extraordinary career. A typical highlight came when one Democratic member of the Assembly snarled that Republicans \u201cwere just a bunch of white men with tiny dicks.\u201d Brown reluctantly punished her for her remark, but the following morning, Republican members of the Assembly came in to find little tins of Vienna Sausages on their desks. Nobody could prove it, but everybody knew: It was Willie Brown.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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