Your rage is entirely misplaced.
You're raging at the media and at the Democratic Party. You should be raging at Biden and his advisors.
Biden's advisors have seen him decline over the past however-many years. Yet they lied to us and said everything was fine. Worse--they accused anybody who raised any questions about Biden's mental acuity of "ageism. And then, as if their dishonesty wasn't enough, they put Joe Biden up on that debate stage--an act of political malpractice that is, I think, without parallel in modern American politics.
Joe Biden has had the most successful administration in my lifetime. You and I agree on that front. But Joe Biden's second term would not be successful, because Joe Biden is barely mentally capable of being president today; there's no way he'll be mentally fit to be president in a year or two, much less four. And absolutely everybody sees that. And as a result, there's no point in speculating about the success of a second term, because there is no fucking way in hell that Joe Biden is going to win a second term.
And the reason for this isn't the media. And it isn't the Democratic Party. It's the voters, who overwhelmingly say that Biden is not mentally fit to be president. And you can rage all day at the voters, but in the end, Principal Skinner--it is you whom is out of touch, not the children.
I cannot stress this enough. The reason we are where we are is not because of the Democratic Party. It's not because of the media. And it's damned sure not because of the voters who saw a fragile old man on that debate stage who looked confused, feeble, and unable to articulate a coherent thought and decided that he should not be president.
We are where we are entirely because Biden's inner circle thought they could cover up his mental decline through a fucking presidential campaign and skate through because his opponent is just noxious enough that it might not matter that their candidate couldn't effectively campaign.
We could have been having this conversation a year ago. We should have been having this conversation a year ago. The reason we didn't is entirely because of Biden's inner circle.
You know I love you, but you're dreadfully wrong.
You and I would vote for Biden if he were in a fucking permanent vegetative state. But the problem is that we're not in the majority. If we rallied around Biden after that debate performance, Biden would still lose. But worse than that, the Senate and House candidates who rallied around him would lose credibility. They would be justifiably accused of putting party ahead of country. And they would lose. We would lose the House. We would lose the Senate. We would lose hundreds of state legislative seats. The Democratic Party would face an electoral catastrophe if we followed the rally-around-Biden strategy you suggest.
And by the way--I have a very strong suspicion that a lot of this is driven by Hunter and his hope that his dad would issue a pardon in his second term. I very much think that if Hunter weren't in there pleading for Joe to stay in the race, that Joe would've stood down two weeks ago.