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Biden Sundown
Why is this so difficult?
I would like to thank Joe Biden for stepping down the day after I published this essay. I would like to believe he read it, but probably not. He demonstrated his sincerity and honor. He will be remembered with well-deserved respect.
Listening to a favorite weekly podcast today, I heard two well-spoken and intelligent pundits rail against the news media and its constant droning for Joe Biden to resign. ‘This is counter-productive,’ they insisted. ‘Joe Biden is the nominee, we all knew that from the start and we need to get behind him with full-throated support or the Republican Party will destroy our democratic form of government.’ Now these two rational Democrats noted in an earlier podcast that they would also be entirely behind Kamala Harris as presidential nominee, so it seems that Biden isn’t really the problem. It’s something else.
While the focus was on the news media, especially the New York Times, it seemed clear that high ranking Democrats openly calling for Biden to step down were also a major part of the problem. These pundits went into great detail regarding Biden’s accomplishments in this term (with which I concur in my essay Not Your Father’s Joe). They emphasized that a Trump Presidency would threaten America’s future as a democratic state (with which I concur in almost everything I write). They do not…
