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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Dude...What?

Joe Biden has been a lazy campaigner, not doing any of the various town halls or rallies that other candidates have been doing.  Why should he? He's ahead.

Or maybe it's because Joe Biden's single political talent is stepping on his own dick.  And guess what kids? He did it again.

I'll let Jon Chait and Martin Longman explain precisely why Biden's gaffe was so bad, but there's a key bit buried at the end of Chait's piece: Biden is 76 years old.  He suffers from all the foibles of the Boomers, including diminished mental flexibility.  What's scarier?  That Biden is just bullshitting about being able to convince Mitch McConnell to work with him?  Or that he actually believes it?

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