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Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Gandubund spent every third Thursday perfecting his whimsical reinterpretation of Tevye for the lovely ladies of the Bailey's and Borscht Convocation.
When I first became active in politics back in Olden Times, things weren't as, well, snippy as they are here in the social media meltdown 21st century. It was possible to admire what my foes the Democrats were up to at times. For example, they used to be great at playing the long game in politics. Republicans were reacting to what was hot in a particular election cycle, while the Dems were getting their pre-teens prepped for an eventual school board run on their way to Congress.
They've still got some of that going on, but the emotions for which Democrats have always been known have really moved to the forefront.
The Democratic power players in this country are finally being open about the fact that they have a Joe Biden problem.
Baby steps.
Mr. Green wrote an interesting bit of analysis yesterday about the unharmonious convergence of reality that the Democrats are facing, all because they got their wish in 2020.
It begins with some unsettling polling numbers that have the Dem back rooms engaged in a perpetual wiping of the flop sweat. I don't get too moved by polls, but if the public polling is already heading down a dark alley for the Democrats, the internal polls must be launching a few ulcers.
Where Stephen's column gets really intriguing is when he shares the thoughts of Obama underboss David Axelrod, who is warming up a bus under which he can throw President LOLEightyonemillion:
Biden has "defied CW [conventional wisdom] before," Axelrod tweeted, but Volpe's numbers "will send tremors of doubt through the party — not 'bed-wetting,' but legitimate concern."
Translation: "We aren't panicking over one bad poll; we see you taking us all down with you."
"The greatest concern is that his biggest liability is the one thing he can't change," because Biden isn't getting any younger. "Among all the unpredictables there is one thing that is sure: the age arrow only points in one direction."
Translation: "President Kamala Harris" polls even worse than Biden does.
Here's where Axelrod slips in the shiv: "If he continues to run, he will be the nominee of the Democratic Party. What he needs to decide is whether that is wise; whether it's in HIS best interest or the country's?"
Translation: "Country" in this context means "Democrat party."
"There is little time left for a primary campaign," Axelrod concluded, "and campaigns are how we test candidates. But there is a lot of leadership talent in the Democratic Party, poised to emerge."
Translation: Step aside now, old man, and make way for Gavin Newsom.
While I don't rule out the Newsom possibility, I've never been sold on it. I've written about that a lot, so I won't get into it again here.
What I find most interesting is that the Democrats are just coming to grips with a problem we all could have told them back in 2020 that they'd be facing now. Old-school Democrats would have been better prepared for this. No doubt many think that this is all just so much theater, but I truly believe that they have been caught flat-footed.
Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is what got us into this predicament. It affected even the better brains among the Democrats. All of their efforts were on one goal in 2020: NOT TRUMP. That was the prize and that was the focus. It's not that they didn't bother to look ahead and ponder the consequences, it's that they were incapable of doing so. The blind TDS rage made them rabid animals.
In its more functional days, Democrats would have had a Biden removal plan that kicked in well before Mrs. Biden was able to make him blurt out on camera that he wanted to run for reelection. They've spent three-plus years reveling in the fact that their COVID machinations vanquished Trump, and it has muddled their planning.
Ivory Tower Dems went all-in on legally harassing Trump either into submission or prison and now that it has gone this long without doing either, they are just realizing that they're stuck with a candidate who walks in circles and shakes hands with his imaginary friends.
Biden is such a liability that some mail-in ballot sleight of hand probably won't do the trick for them next year. Axelrod and his ilk are almost certainly working on various graceful exit scenarios that they can pitch to Old Joe. If they do, they'll quickly be reminded that the real fly in the Gavin Newsom ointment is named Jill Biden.
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