The Washington Post's opinion page editor, James Downey, is, evidently, opposed to a Democratic White House win. His views are so fundamental to what I hear and read from everyday ultraprogressives, even the briefest of Downie synopses is a valuable penetration into the suicide pact to which the columnist and his fellow small-d dreamers have signed on.
Brace for impact.
From Downie's entry of yesterday:
"Most voters get that 'the way things were' isn’t good enough, even if many establishment Democrats don’t. That’s bad news for Biden, whose pitch aside from electability can be summed up as 'I was Obama’s vice president.'"
And from his previous column addressing CNN's Sept. 4th town hall on climate change:
"The former vice president repeatedly rambled and stumbled through his answers, at one point cutting himself off with 'Anyway, I’m taking too long. Sorry.'"
"CNN did the public a service … [in] helping voters really sort through Democrats’ differences. For Biden, that contrast was hardly a welcome one."
Rather than accessing three quotes from here on out, though, I'll just stick with Elizabeth Warren's Downielike, singular pitch:
"We need to win in 2020. I get it. There is a lot at stake. But we can’t choose a candidate we don’t believe in because we’re scared."
Like hell we can't. In fact we do it all the time. And its name is negative partisanship — simply, the growing tendency of the American electorate to vote against a candidate or party rather than for a candidate or party. And there's never been a more deserving, utterly frightful candidate to vote against than Donald J. Trump.
If you haven't heard of him, he's the NY mobster who would stuff Warren or Bernie Sanders into a Predator Wood Chipper, sadistically enjoying, as would his corruption-loving groupies, every minute of the gruesome affair.
Honestly now, imagine what Trump could do with ultraprogressive calls for the cruel abolition of private insurance, free public healthcare for swarthy rapists and murderers, the decriminalization of illegal entry to America brave and true, and SOCIALISM.
The proponents of such exaggerated extravagances would get moydered.
Yes, Liz, there is a lot at stake; so much that we can choose a candidate whom we don’t all believe in. Because with Trump — and another four, Constitution-shredding, America-ending years — we’re spitting up blood with choking, immeasurable fear.
Joe can win. Liz and Bernie cannot. That's all 2020 is about; everything else is secondary. I wish James Downie the best in waxing indignant and horrified over Biden's rambling and stumbling through answers. But a damn sight many Americans would love watching moderate Joe stumble his way straight through the gangster Donald, on Election Day. Nobody else can.