doubling down on Pale, Male, and Stale...
Millions of Dems will stay home.
“Millions of Dems will stay home.”
the Dems are gonna be hoist on their own fractionated identity politics no matter what they do:
if they nominate someone like Biden who at least has the APPEARANCE of not being a crazy, they’ll keep the naive white part of their base that always pulls the “D” lever because they still think the Dems are the party of Truman and Kennedy, but they’ll lose much of the youth, the colorfuls, and the crazies ....
if they nominate a crazy, they’ll get the crazies, the youth, and some of the colorfuls, but will lose the naive whites that still think the Dems are the party of Truman and Kennedy ...
PAYBACK
> Millions of Dems will stay home. <
Not if it’s Biden. He is very popular with the Joe Six-Pack union crowd. And those are just the guys who put Trump on top in the rust-belt states.
As I see it, Biden is the most dangerous one in the pack.