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It seems to me the pressure built up and he could no longer fight it, which means he had no choice. The party did not allow it, just like they didn't allow Bern

• hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
  > The party did not allow it Except in this case "the party" is actually "people that vote for Democrats". It's insane and infuriating to try to blame this on "the elites" when a significant majority of Democratic voters wanted Biden to step aside. If anything, it was "the elites" who tried to hide Biden's true condition and then tried to gaslight us all by pretending his debate performance was just some kind of bad one-off.
  • proc0 2y ago
    > If anything, it was "the elites" who tried to hide Biden's true condition and then tried to gaslight us all by pretending his debate performance was just some kind of bad one-off. Yes, and it worked, and it's working again. I'm just saying it's not what people would have voted for if there was truly a choice. The presidential election is just a show for the managerial class to select their new spoke person.
• rsynnott 2y ago
  I mean, you could read it that way, and without inside knowledge it would be impossible to prove or disprove, but realistically, even if this was fully amicable, even if this had been _instigated by Biden_, it would still have played out in public exactly the same way. There’s no world in which an incumbent national leader will say “hey, thinking of resigning, more info in a few weeks”; it’s just not how it works.