wdlindsy ,
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"Watch [Biden] get 80 percent in the Michigan primary, and have the same journalists call it a setback, reflecting deep divisions among Democrats."

~ Norm Ornstein as quoted by Greg Dworkin

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/28/2226188/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-IVF-courts-and-fundraising

PapyrusBrigade ,
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@wdlindsy I, for one, am thrilled that Democrats have found a way to register displeasure with Biden’s foreign policy by using the “uncommitted” option. Genuine democracy in action: using the threat of the ballot box to pressure the current administration to make substantive change now.

wdlindsy OP ,
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@PapyrusBrigade Healthy debate is certainly good for any political party. I suspect the point being made here is not about the need for healthy intraparty debate, but about how the media consistently treat the Democrats as opposed to the Republicans. I myself am not thrilled when many Democrats play right into that dynamic. I think the lack of solidarity of those on the political left in the United States is one of the main reasons the left is always weak and defensive.

patmadigan ,
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@wdlindsy The journalists got so tired of typing “and why that’s a problem for the Biden Campaign” that now they use a Ctrl-Alt-Doohickey macro to plop in onto every newspaper headline, every cable-news chyron, etc.

wdlindsy OP ,
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

@patmadigan Well-stated and clever.

humanhorseshoes ,
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@wdlindsy They want Trump because he gives them things to write about. They don't realise he will jail and outlaw them all.

wdlindsy OP ,
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@humanhorseshoes That sounds right to me.

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