What explains the dividing line between Democrats who saw the debate and started urging a switch and those who circled the wagons all the more ferociously? Many Democrats, including elected officials, party officers, labor leaders, and influencers, promised that replacing Biden would lead to chaos and disunity.
The problem for Democrats is that any observation of this second truth—a truth that seems likely to darken and expand in the aftermath of yesterday’s attack—will now be condemned as rancorous and immoral—or worse, as an incitement to further political violence. Every necessary criticism of Trump’s authoritarianism, fondness for dictators, fraudulen... See more