In theory, and given the inevitability with which the fixation on access journalism feeds the manufacturing of consent, it feels like the way for one party to hold the presidency forever is just to always resign 34 months into a four-year term and run the ascended VP as incumbent
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
I doubt this would actually work, Nixon's resignation was this big unprecedented norms violation that left his successor under a (deserved) pall of being a "fake President"
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Yeah I think biden should probably do this, it beats running him again at over 80 or giving Republicans the gift of an unnecessary dem primary.
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @atonal440
It's pretty clear in people's profiles of his decision to run that even he agreed 2016 was his realistic last shot and he is objectively too old now But ran in 2020 anyway as the best chance to save the country (because no one else had the automatic cachet of being Obama's VP)
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Which means that he may well think that his job, in fact, was just to win the election and then step aside for whatever proxy he brought into office under the protective aura of his VP glamour (Which, yes, turned out to be someone who dropped out of the primary before Iowa)
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I guess one could argue that the logic of picking Kamala as VP, despite her having "auditioned" fairly badly in the primaries (even if only in terms of her campaign management) is that it functions as a dropkick of squeamish white ppl into the cool water of a WoC presidency
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Literally shoving them in and being like "see, it's not so bad"
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @atonal440
This is really obviously why people were so pushy about this as soon as Biden was the favorite First making him just straight up promise the running mate would be a woman, then pressing him harder that it'd be a woman of color
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Unfortunately they didn't quite get to the point of sapphic intersex disabled trans woman of color who is also a military veteran
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the liberal progressive equivalent of leaving the oven on
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"What about the American insectivore population? Should they be left behind?" "Yes, and people who preferred Chrono Cross to Chrono Trigger"
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