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I predicted last weekend that the Democrats will find a way to jettison Joe Biden; that likelihood seems to fluctuate daily or even hourly, but for now my prediction stands. Because it is so obvious to me, I had long assumed the Democratic Party would consider it equally obvious. But it is no longer clear to me that the party’s elected officials actually share that assumption. But to the extent that goal conflicts with other, more mundane imperatives, more than a few Democrats seem to view beating Trump as a secondary objective. I wrote about this in the context of Biden’s “save democracy, vote Democrat” rhetoric before the 2022 midterms, but clearly the point merits new elaboration.
Persons: jettison Joe Biden, Trump, Jonathan Chait, Donald Trump, mystification, Tim Miller, Ezra Klein, Trumpism Organizations: Trump, Democratic, Democratic Party Locations: New York
Opinion | Why Is Joe Biden So Unpopular?
  + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The woke wars and Covid battles that disadvantaged Democrats are no longer central, and the post-Roe culture wars seem like friendlier terrain. Biden’s foreign policy team has defended Ukraine without (so far) a dangerous escalation with the Russians, and Biden has even delivered legislative bipartisanship, co-opting Trumpian promises about industrial policy along the way. The hope has to be that inflation continues to drift down, real wages rise consistently and in November 2024, Biden gets the economic credit he isn’t getting now. Across multiple polls, Biden seems to be losing support from minority voters, continuing a Trump-era trend. — much as culturally conservative white Democrats drifted slowly into the Republican coalition between the 1960s and the 2000s.
Persons: Biden, Trumpian, isn’t, wokeness Organizations: Democratic, American, Democrats, African, Republican Locations: Ukraine
Issues like these are still relatively under-discussed in the Irish news media and society, and Chambers’s fans seem to welcome his candor. He gets “thousands and thousands” of social media messages about mental health, he said, but he could never deal with interactions like those in person. “If I didn’t have the bag,” Chambers said, “I’d stop talking about mental health‌.”On other episodes, Chambers talks frankly about an economic climate that he says has infantilized his generation. Chambers said the Irish news media continued to draw links between the party and terrorism. Several popular Instagram accounts attest to this growing interest in Northern Irish politics among young people in the Republic.
The Biggest Midterm Election Issue Is Chaos
  + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
What’s happening to the stock market? Will Vladimir Putin go nuclear? Mystification has become a permanent state of life, and for the next three weeks the big mystery is: Who’s going to win the midterm elections? Answer: The Republicans. It’s going to be a red wave.
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