Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Wednesday - What Happened To The Day? Still Wondering If Biden Will Stick

 I went to work with the remnants of Hurricane Beryl passing through. Misty and a lot of wind, but no real rain. After work, I caught the 2 pm bus and made a pit stop at the convenience store on West Jackson. I got home around 2:30. It is then that things get hazy. I read some email and I listened to some music on YouTube. I napped between 3:30 and 5. I lost my glasses; that took like 20 minutes out of my life. CC called. I cleaned. I fixed spaghetti for dinner. I read some more articles online. My sister called. I started this post.

About Biden: Upset at Biden for Sticking It Out? Blame the Voters..

Credit for that goes instead to a large swath of Democratic base voters, who have responded with incredulity to the idea that the president (whom they don’t particularly adore) should step aside. Call it post-hoc rationalization or tribalism if you’d like. But even the Biden team admits those voters have spooked enough elected Democrats to keep the president in the game.

“How easy it is for people to forget that voters get the final say!” one senior Biden aide told me

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But the defining feature of the debate aftermath has been that a large chunk of the Democratic party simply rejects the doomsday prognostications of the political class. They’ve managed both to believe that he lacks the capacity to serve another four years as president and rationalize support for him to do just that.

Veterans of the campaign trail say they’re hardly surprised.

“About a third of [Barack] Obama ’08 voters thought he might have been born in a foreign country. They still voted for him,” said Stu Stevens, the longtime GOP political operative who, under Donald Trump, grew disaffected with his party. “How many 1992 [Bill] Clinton voters thought he was trustworthy and honest? How many 2024 voters think a convicted felon should be president?”

“We have a strange human ability to hold contradictory ideas and decide which to ignore,” he added. “People are weird and inconsistent.”

I have been listening to Vince Ray & The Boneshakers this evening. Pyschobilly, again. They sound good, and have a sense of humor.


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