https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1514691339639791629
This is all american politics is now. My feeble-brained octogenarian is better than your feeble-brained octogenarian. It's kind of pathetic honestly, I feel secondhand embarrassment for everyone involved
They’re not defending him, they’re subconsciously defending the system. Even entertaining the idea that Biden is mentally unfit to be the president (or drive a car or go to the grocery store by himself) means admitting the electoral system allowed a senile old man with dementia become the president.
It’s the same reason they insist that Russia interfered with the 2016 election to get Donald Trump elected. If they admit that Trump straight up won a legitimate democratic contest by the same rules that elected Obama, then they can’t pretend that their system has any real legitimacy. Either that or they have to admit that Trump is a legitimate outcome of said system.
Regardless, US politics is hopelessly broken. Partisans in both camps are now just calling every election they lose illegitimate, but won’t demand that anything changes because that assumes that there’s something that needs to change.
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So funny that the ones who (in libs' fish memory) started calling elections rigged were the libs themselves. I.e. they started discrediting their own "democracy"
This is also why the Dem leadership keeps saying shit like “we need a strong Republican Party” while activists, pundits, and even other Democrat officials argue (with good reason) that the GOP is a threat to democracy. If there are only two viable political parties, and one of them isn’t a legitimate choice because they threaten to undermine the entire thing, then the damage is already done. There’s no democracy to save.
People like Biden and Pelosi, who are actually in charge, can’t imply that the GOP isn’t a legitimate political party because then they’d have to admit that the entire system is illegitimate, which calls into question their legitimacy. On top of that, they would then have a duty (at least notionally) to fix the system.
The GOP, in being so blatant in their attempt to nakedly wield power without even a nod to what little democratic process does exist, is forcing the Democrats into an untenable position: either defend their own opponents as good faith actors despite the increasingly obvious reality that they aren’t, or actually govern. Since the latter is their nightmare scenario, they’ll keep doing the former until the GOP is in power again, at which point they can go back to pretending they want to be in charge.