James GleickI’ve read the New York Times all my life, and I worked in the newsroom for ten years, and I’ve never seen the news department along with the editorial department commit to a nakedly partisan political crusade, as they are now. Evidently they are more outraged by Biden’s determination to continue running for re-election than they have ever been by Donald Trump.
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I'll grant that newspapers love a controversy. But they also do not want Trump to win; I came to a belief over a year ago that Biden -who I like - is doomed. i have many red state friends and family who despise Trump yet will *not* vote Biden. My teen and young adult Blue state kids all despise Trump yet all view Biden as a complete non-factor. I asked about Kamala and they all lit up ... but then said "you guys" would never let her run. This was all *before* the debate.
I'll grant that newspapers love a controversy. But they also do not want Trump to win; I came to a belief over a year ago that Biden -who I like - is doomed. i have many red state friends and family who despise Trump yet will *not* vote Biden. My teen and young adult Blue state kids all despise Trump yet all view Biden as a complete non-factor. I asked about Kamala and they all lit up ... but then said "you guys" would never let her run. This was all *before* the debate.
Barry Schwartz 🫖@vashbear @JamesGleick We are interested in winning the election, not the reactions of kids. These are really entirely different things.
Reverse the roles and imagine we were the Republicans. Then Joe Biden's age would be a non-issue but Trump's would be, because he'd be the Democrat.
Now why is that? It's because Democrats have this urge to show their intellectual superiority by worrying about things other than a focus on winning the election with what they've got. It is childish.
@vashbear @JamesGleick The Republicans even stuck with Sarah Palin, though that was possibly a mistake, but it wasn't worth breaking discipline.
Certainly replacing Eagleton had done no good for the Democrats.