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This is the kind of leadership he needs to show to convince everyone he's still viable, but a letter on it's own is not going to cut it.
I hear he called in on Morning Joe as well, I need to run that down.
Edit Found the clip:
https://youtu.be/8aziuR76Cek
I… don’t care.
He showed me precisely the caliber of leadership he’s bringing to the table on Friday, and I find it disturbing, uninspiring, and deeply wrongheaded. Specifically:
That’s not Churchill taking a stand against the Nazis (or, in modern terms, Macron sacrificing his own party’s chances to keep the fascists out of power). That’s President von Hindenburg acquiescing to Hitler becoming the Reichschancellor in 1933. He doesn’t fucking get that we are probably not going to have meaningful elections for the foreseeable future if he loses.
He isn’t addressing this as the clear, present and existential danger that this very much is. He does not have his head in the game. It is becoming more and more obvious that he does not even understand what the game is, nor does he have the temperament or psychology to play it effectively if he did. I dearly hope to be proven wrong, but at this point, I’m more or less resigned to the fact that I’m probably going to end up moving to a different country in the next year.
Right, but in order to convince everyone he’s still viable, he would need to be out in public all day every day (when he’s not in the situation room), making off-the-cuff comments, answering unscripted questions from randos on the street, and accepting every single interview request. He’s not doing any of that, because he’s not physically or mentally capable of it. There’s no shame in it, but it’s the reality. He’s too old to do the job of campaigning for president, so he’s definitely too old to do the job of president itself.