I've written a longish take on the last couple of days, including about how what looked like (and initially was) Democratic panic over Biden morphed somewhere along the way into a rope-a-dope strategy against the GOP, and whether Harris can win (spoiler: yup):

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/07/22/biden-harris-trump-and-2024/

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Biden, Harris, Trump and 2024

Slow news weekend, am I right? Some thoughts on the current state of things, in no particular order. 1. I was not a fan of the idea of Joe Biden leaving the race, and I still have my suspicions tha…

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@scalzi If Harris does win, it will be the first time a democrat is elected to follow a democrat since the civil war.

Truman followed Roosevelt, and Johnson followed Kennedy, but in both those cases it was because the incumbent died in office.

That could lead to 12 years of the democrats being in charge, which is enough time for long-term projects to actually get done. And, hopefully, some Supreme Court seats to be flipped.

@merc @scalzi Or more seats to be added. Or DOJ corruption investigations of Supreme Court Justices.