Basically if you say "I'm going to put a black woman in the VP slot" then the time comes to get the actual top job you elbow her aside for a white man it doesn't look great. Although most o… (View Post)

I'm sure Newsom did some polling but basically the primary voters are going to reelect their incumbent election-winning president. You can see this by the way Dean Phillips fell flat. A bigger challe… (View Post)

The flaw in that even if you accept the premise that Biden can't do the job is that Trump is obviously also not capable of doing the job. It's a stoppable force meeting a movable object. (View Post)

He's been saying this for a while. As far as I can make out based on some excellent podcasts (War on the Rocks and Geopolitics Decanted) what actually happened was that there was a negotiation, but i… (View Post)

Relatedly if Biden did appear to be unable to do his job then his cabinet wouldn't hesitate to take him behind the barn and deliver a swift blow with the 25th Amendment, whereas Trump will pick a bun… (View Post)