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CADE_FOSTER posted...

Its Biden or nothing you get Trump if you dont want Biden so suck it up princesses

This is that weird hostility I'm trying to get at. This isn't how you convince voting blocs that've abandoned you. If the victimized blocs are the one revolting and threatening Biden's chances, what is the value of Biden remaining as he is now?

I would get the steadfast confidence from a political angle if Biden polled well and this was as simple as disaffected Bernie supporters being pissy like they were in 2016 but it's pretty evident things run deeper than that. Biden's numbers are utterly abysmal for an incumbent and the only play I've seen in respect to this is to just deny the polling is accurate even when it's polling firms that have been accurate through a lot of tricky cycles.

The confusion I have is: Why be this determined to run this clunker across the finish line? Why is "you can't criticize Biden even as he has polled horrendously for months" a strategy? How does it work? The strategy seems to be "browbeat voters into a game of lesser evils."

That failed with Clinton in spectacular fashion, so what's the gameplan? Hope Trump is convicted and that the conviction isn't discarded by the courts? Hope that Biden coasts MI from the Rs infighting? Hope polls that better assessed Democrats in 2022 are now suddenly wrong when all of them show the same point? Hope Trump's voting base stays home?

I understand the baseline of "we can't replace Biden" but if this morphs into "We can't criticize him either" when in-party pressure is literally how you fix the fact a bunch of voters don't like Biden, then what? Everybody who points this out wants Trump? Does that sound like viable or legible concept? When has this ever, ever worked?

Keep in mind that the baseline alarm bell ringing is specifically because this is neither '16 nor '20 where Democrats looked strong in the polls. It's starting off on a negative foothold now but the basis for this is no longer crank outlets.