In Reply to: That is revisionist history... posted by confused442 on December 04, 2025 at 15:37:14
There were plenty of people out there who acknowledged that there were problems with running Biden and that there were also some potential mental acuity issues going on (forgodssakes, NYT could not stop talking about Biden's age and mental sharpness throughout the primary season), and yes, there was plenty of discomfort with what was going on.
But no, replacing him on the ticket was not a thing that was voiced because he was winning the primaries. Nobody out there had the authority to remove him from the ticket. It was always Biden's decision, and the folks who voted for him in the primaries. Biden himself had to decide to pull himself off the ticket for anything to move forward. And as long as he hadn't, it was extremely risky proposition to talk about how he was unfit for presidency when he was alreday the presumed nominee.
I'm hoping that you can at least appreciate the mechanics of what was going on at the time on the Democratic Party front, which is a *very different* situation than what is going on with the Repblicans right now where Trump is most certainly *not* the presumed presidential nominee for an election that's going to take place in less than a year from now.
Very different set up, very different scenarios, and very different reactions.
(If you want to insist on setting some parallelism between Democrats and Republicans on this front, you need to build your argument on whether Biden was completely out of it back in 2020 and whether Democrats were actively ignoring signs of dementia at that time. That would be comparanble, not how Demiocrats dealt with Biden in 2024.)