Pointgod wrote:The ironic thing is that this could actually help Biden who’s been falling. It’s possible this could galvanize some Democrats around Biden because he’s now a target of Trumps lies and schemes although this didn’t happen for Clinton but I’m pretty sure we all know why.
Of course we know why. It was the basement of the pizza parlor without a basement. And the restaurant at the end of the universe. And the whale that spontaneously appeared in the atmosphere only to immediately fall to his death. And the paranoid robot that sees everything pink. Douglas Adams was a prophet.
In all seriousness, though, the fact that the Republicans have lowered the bar so ridiculously low has masked the difficulty with which Democrats have had in dealing with their own issues. The contrast in scale is massive but it's still a big deal. I've been saying from the beginning that Harris really should have been running Biden off the rails and Warren was better than Sanders in pretty much every way. They're comparable candidates with only superficial but visible differences and the results haven't been flattering. Yeah, it might have been worse in the times of Clinton, for example, but Anthony Weiner suggests it hasn't gone away, by more recent contrast. Republicans can't really play that card, nor are they interested in doing so, though they still make half-hearted efforts on occasion. Still, at least there are a fair number of them working to change those issues even if others are still perpetuating the problems. And the Republicans are still the only other option...
It's also not something that's unique to the US. Trudeau has generally apologized for his past treatment of women but he didn't apologize for his treatment of Jody Wilson-Raybould (for anyone who follows Canadian politics, too) when she pointed out conflicts of interest and corruption, with increasing levels of insistence as nothing was done at any point.
