President Biden was dumped for no reason

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130. I was about to respond to your headline , but then realized

what I was going to say was exactly as you said, especially in the 2nd paragraph.

But let me just play that back, because this really is crucial to our survival as a Party and as something resembling a democracy.

I completely agree that Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump put Biden is a very difficult spot. It was a "choose you poison" scenario.

BUT ... this is how the world works today, and Biden is still stuck in that ancient world where Senators and presidents could say one thing in public, but they get behind closed doors and usually agree do do something that would work for the interests of America. Those days are long gone, at least 25 years gone, if not more.

Today, you have to play hardball, and some of that has to be done in the clear view of the voting public because we know Trump, Putin, Musk, Zuckerberg and the rest of that gang will hammer their messages relentlessly in public. It simply can no longer be a case where the President does the right thing behind closed doors and can expect the public to acknowledge that, somehow, his Presidency was successful. And that is especially true when Biden's choice was to allow Netanyahu to slaughter tens of thousands of men, women, and children whose only sin was being born and imprisoned on the same acreage where Hamas operates.

We have to SELL our positions. and we got absolutely none of that from Biden and very little from Harris. In her defense, she couldn't say much without appearing disloyal to Biden. She couldn't, for example, articulate a better policy vis-a-vis the situation in Gaza.

The lesson that could and should have been learned every day since Reagan, is that: a) we need bold ideas about things that we are FOR, and b) we have to sell them every damned day, not just once every 4 years.

(And to be clear, being against what Trump, Musk and their fellow fascists are doing is a necessary discussion, but cannot be a replacement for big, bold, aggressive ideas for how we will make American lives better and give America a competitive place on the world stage throughout the 21st century.)

(And also to be clear, this is not a criticism of Biden per se. EVERY Democrat from his generation would have failed the same way. None of them have EVER sold big, bold ideas -- or even small ones. We need to find, encourage, and support a completely different kind of leader who will actually ... LEAD.)