The ongoing drizzle of found documents in Biden's possession is the perfect bullshit DC press corpse disaster. Perhaps the best media critic in general is Josh Marshall, and he makes an excellent comparison to Whitewater. Is there a story here? Yes, there is. The story is that we have a very flawed system for managing classified documents. We also over-classify things, so that a separate part of the same story.
What we don't have is any sort of equivalency between what Trump did and what Biden did. Biden has been working to get these documents back to the National Archives. Trump actively obstructed that process. THAT is the story about prosecution. It's obstruction of the law by Trump.
Meanwhile, you have these ossified Congressmen like Dick Durbin who simply do not get what the political landscape is. I've been pleasantly surprised by how the Biden Administration has managed this new hyper-partisan atmosphere and nihilistic GOP. I was worried, precisely because Biden is part of that old school generation of chummy men's club in the Senate.
Of course, I also think that Biden's TEAM is pretty tuned in to the new DC reality. Biden and Congressional Democrats left the debt ceiling time bomb ticking rather than defuse it when they had the opportunity. Let's see how that plays out.
My gut says that if it is Biden v Trump 2.0 in 2024, then Biden wins easily. However, the DC press corpse and the the DC mindset among senior Democrats (in both meanings of the word "senior") will be an anchor around Biden's neck.
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