Maybe the folks around Biden were actually really really good at their jobs… If we change the frame.
We were assessing this on “how well is this campaign going against the standard of normal campaigns”
Instead, it’s “how well is running the country going and running a campaign going when the candidate is completely cognitively impaired”
They were running a race with a 20kg weight on their backs and doing okay.
Now the weight is off, they are demonstrating significant signs of competence.
Of course. “Should we run a campaign with a cognitively impaired candidate and hide that from the voters” is a different question that speaks to values, not competence.
The problem with any notion that there was a concentrated cover-up effort to this effect is the part where the Biden camp actively sought out this debate that blew up in their face so spectacularly. And that honestly is part of why I felt so blindsided by it when I tried to watch it. I didn’t watch the SOTU - I haven’t watched any of those in decades - but it sounded like he did pretty well there, and between that and the fact that they seemed to view the chance to debate early on as a good thing, it’s not altogether clear to me that it was a widely known thing that he had begun to age rapidly.
It would seem like a fair conclusion otherwise, but I just can’t mentally square it with the part where they actively sought out a chance for the candidate to be exposed so badly.
I looked at that guy’s Twitter and he’s not being dumb with that post. He’s alt-right and he is intentionally making the point that Dems are the party for elites.
Well, it’s a horrible message for Democrats because “lol poors” is a horrible message. Now that I see he is messaging for Trump, it’s not so strategically bad.
