Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy says 'no doubt' Biden suffered cognitive decline while in office

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66. The party needs a house cleaning

The reformers see it, but many powerful people whose interests have long rested on the status quo are reluctant to admit problems (namely because their own role in those problems will come under sharp question).

So now there's this tension. People who see the obvious and people who insist there were no problems - merely unfortunate outcomes due to unforeseeable outside forces.

I don't know when this reckoning is going to arrive - and this stuff with Biden is just the Lexington of the matter - but I really hope it's sooner rather than later. I hope people like Buttigieg, who sees things with great clarity, can articulate persuasively the case that the entire party, top to bottom, needs a course correct.

If people cannot observe with some detachment the events, choices, and narratives that led to 2024 and the position we're currently in and understand this can never happen again, I'm not sure what hope there is. We're going to lose more power nationally after the 2030 census. We need to have a plan for it. And people are still running around politically like it's the 1990s. It is baffling. Maybe that's a function and indictment of the gerontocratic status quo system that's held unassailable power in the party for so long.

But it cannot persist. Either we take it upon ourselves to change the party, or 2030 will do that for us. But people aren't going to sit down and shut up anymore. That ship is soooooooo over the horizon.