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    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/biden-drops-out-age-media/679181/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo

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    1. theatlantic on

      Helen Lewis: “Here in Britain, the most common reaction in the minutes after the news broke was sheer relief. Relief that Donald Trump will not be allowed an easy path to a second term. Relief that the Democrats will put forward a candidate who is able to bear a full campaign schedule—defending the party’s record and advancing its best arguments. Relief, too, that the party would not be insulting the intelligence of voters by insincerely pushing a candidate that its leaders must have understood was a lemon.

      “The last of those has dominated my thinking since the disastrous CNN debate in June. Imagine that Biden’s staffers had gently shepherded him over the line, coaching him through interviews and propping him up through public events. Imagine that Biden had somehow won the election despite the evidence of the polls—and then, disaster. Within months or weeks, it surely would have become apparent that he was unable to serve a full term.

      “If all of that happened, then the American people would have, quite rightly, felt that they had been duped. Any sense of the moral high ground—something the Democrats have been keen to claim in the face of Trump’s very real outrages—would have disappeared. How can you ask the voters to trust you when you don’t trust them enough to tell them the truth?”

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    2. EmpiricalAnarchism on

      Yes, so much better that the candidate that Peter Thiel’s bought and paid for employee Nate Silver has been pushing since precisely the moment Biden-led Democrats began pushing to ban Polymarket, Thiel’s latest adventure and Nate Silver’s new employer.

      Then again, Polymarket largely makes its money off of Scottish teenagers so it makes sense that their fellow citizens would pretty much openly support the end of America’s democracy because Biden comes off as a little old or something. Which is why we now have the nominee that Peter Thiel hand picked to lose to Trump atop the ticket.

      Fun times!

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