What is so ridiculous about the argument advanced in the article?
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Replying to @Pinboard @jasonintrator
it's basically a fantasy of Trumpian skill and confidence, as opposed to the boring, mundane reality of Biden's polling against him. (I'm old enough to remember the Sanders camp advancing said head-to-head polling as the argument for *their* candidate in 2016)
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Biden's polling against Trump (48 to 44) is identical to Clinton's polling against Trump at the start of January 2016 (47 to 43). The "boring, mundane reality" of these polls suggests to me that Biden would lose against Trump like Clinton did. What am I missing in your argument?
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well, every other Democrat is doing worse than Biden, so if you want the best chance then maybe you should go for him.
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That's an entirely different argument, though. I'm trying to understand why
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Because it's blatantly not actually about that but about the wonders of Bernie Sanders, and to the degree that it *is* about that it's essentially yet another projection of the neuroses of 2016.
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The article doesn't mention Sanders or argue that he's a superior candidate to Biden. Maybe all the author's other articles are love poems to Bernie (I haven't read the guy) but from the vantage point of a dispassionate bookmarking site, you're the one projecting neuroses here.
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Yeah, you need to have read *literally anything else Nathan Robinson writes* to understand this. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/10/why-bernie-has-to-win …
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"I don’t think I quite realized how much we need Bernie Sanders—or how much I need him, personally—and how desperately urgent it is for us to elect him"
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That is, the piece is no more being done in good faith than the regular volleys of pieces by former GOP candidates about how the Democrats are Doomed if they pick a leftist.
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Okay, but you're attacking the author's broader political agenda rather than a completely sensible standalone argument about Biden's family baggage. Not knowing the author from a hole in the ground, the article seemed sensible and your attacks on it didn't.
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Who - literally who - is going to be swayed by an argument about Biden's family when his opponent is *Donald Trump?* Anybody who believes in Biden's corruption over Trump's is *already* a GOP voter.
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My fundamental belief here is that *any* Democratic candidate is going to get ratfucked and the truth or falsity of the claims is largely irrelevant. Kelly was a bonafide war hero and they still swiftboated him.
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