Biden Becomes Litmus Test for 2028 Contenders

[EarlG]

50. If we're addressing the candidates for 2028

then I'll tell you that my personal preference is to find a candidate who is Good At Politics, and one of the things that makes you Good At Politics is how good you are at deflecting bullshit gotcha questions and flipping the conversation around to what you want to talk about. So I guess in that regard I am interested in how potential candidates are addressing this current furore, because I think it might be a good indicator of their ability to control the narrative, rather than bowing to someone else's narrative. Next time around we are going to need someone who is very, very good at controlling the narrative.

But to be clear, if primary candidates want to make rehashing the last election a central piece of their candidacy going forward, of course people will be permitted to support those candidates and that point of view on DU, because we will be having a primary, and that's when candidates and their supporters are going to be fighting and attacking each other and trying to win. With that in mind, if candidates who spend time rehashing the last election do get torn down for that here, it will be because it's an unpopular position. On the other hand, if a candidate who spends time rehashing the last election becomes the nominee, then DU will support that candidate.

I guess I simply don't agree that in this very specific situation, 2028 candidates who are out there in public saying, "This was terrible. This was a mistake. This was a very, no good, galactically terrible idea, and we shouldn't have done it," are somehow helping us to "avoid future mistakes." With two aging candidates both in decline, one being the incumbent president and the other being the previous president, both winning their primaries by enormous margins (although Biden actually did far better than Trump in that respect) -- and then one candidate having a massive stumble at a debate, and subsequently dropping out of the race at the last minute -- the 2024 election was a unique, unprecedented situation that will not be repeated in our lifetimes. So I feel like doing a public autopsy on Biden's political corpse isn't relevant to any future election -- it's just more likely to make people watching go, "Ew."