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Ellis Weiner's avatar

Home run. I've been making a similar point: It's not even that "Biden is bad at debating," because when the other guy does nothing but lie, it's not a debate. Biden's mistake was honoring the conventions of the debate. Trump comes in, knocks Biden's pieces off the chess board, and Biden crawls around, saying "Let's see, where was this bishop just now...?"

So fuck the debate--the first and the possible second. If the moderators of the second aren't going to fact check and call out Trump's lies (and he can't help but lie), then it's not a debate and the deal's off.

The rest is campaigning. Biden *and his people* (as you rightly say) know how to do that, to put him in the right contexts and situations, where he can brag (truthfully) about what he's done, and point out that Trump is an incoherent monster (and that's the worst kind).

And now they can also, alas, point out that Trump, and the Supreme Court, will do everything they can to make climate change worse, attack women, spread gun violence, attack minorities, gut Social Security, and so on. If twentysomethings want to inherit any kind of decent world, they have only one choice. The Supremes have seen to that.

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Bridget's avatar

Great commentary! I could not agree with you more.

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