Fueled by poor political reasoning and donor angst over Biden's health, Pelosi and co. are disenfranchising their base and adding further uncertainty to a contentious election.
I love that you point out how ppl in the Democratic Party with more influence over the direction of the party than the average joe are feigning a newfound realization to justify what they’re doing!! I think we differ slightly in our analysis in that I think that the primaries incredibly low turnout themselves should (or rather could) have been justification enough to search for more popular candidates (and part of that is bc we don’t strictly speaking always have primaries but we always have nominees ykwim?). To me the timing says that some subset of the population that was previously satisfied with the primaries balked at his poor performance and so disingenuous reasons were cherry-picked from the common concerns that were previously ignored/dismissed to push his resignation from the race. All to say I b much agree that some voices being valued over others in and of itself underscores the corroded state of democracy in America imo
I love that you point out how ppl in the Democratic Party with more influence over the direction of the party than the average joe are feigning a newfound realization to justify what they’re doing!! I think we differ slightly in our analysis in that I think that the primaries incredibly low turnout themselves should (or rather could) have been justification enough to search for more popular candidates (and part of that is bc we don’t strictly speaking always have primaries but we always have nominees ykwim?). To me the timing says that some subset of the population that was previously satisfied with the primaries balked at his poor performance and so disingenuous reasons were cherry-picked from the common concerns that were previously ignored/dismissed to push his resignation from the race. All to say I b much agree that some voices being valued over others in and of itself underscores the corroded state of democracy in America imo