Why Biden finally quit

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16. The why is important because:

1. if you call it a coup or Biden being backstabbed/ratfucked/forced out it calls into question the legitimacy of the process going forward. Why should people rally around the next person if the process that led to their nomination wasn't "legal" or was predicated on some deep personal betrayal of someone they previously supported?

2. we're less than two weeks out from an assassination attempt on a major party candidate. There are crazy people out there and we need to be tempering our language and insisting on accuracy. Because if it *is* a coup, what do "patriotic right-thinking Americans" need to do in response?

I'd love to move on and just be excited about a new nominee as much as anyone, but I think we have to be really careful about messaging and how we frame our understanding of what happened in the current political context. The Republicans will call it a coup to shit-stir and we need to have a clear and agreed counter-narrative to that.

People can feel how they feel. But not every thought needs to be expressed when it's not in our strategic best interest to do so.