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Agreed, I would love Newsom to throw himself into the race.

Newsom is a Boris Johnson. The guy is a joke and he has not excuse for his hypocritical parties during mandatory lockdown. COVID lockdowns are not in public favor and any Democrat that was for mandatory lockdowns will not be successful.

Just because you keep repeating it it’s not going to come true. Lockdowns are a non factor anymore and America did it’s lockdowns prudently and reasonably. Democrats that act on evidence will be exactly those that will be successful.

> Prudently and reasonably

Except they were jailing people for going on hikes and to the beach, which as science showed was actually counterintuitive. Not all Democrats acted on the science, but instead hypocritically and authoritarianly tried jumping ahead of science rather than taking a rational thought-out approach.

You could be in favor of, opposed to, or neutral on lockdowns, and still be very much against people ordering lockdowns for everybody else and then going to unmasked parties. That - and not the mere fact of the lockdowns - deserves to be Newsome's political death knell.

Nonsense, if trump can get away with a failed coup that sort of imagined contrivance doesn’t even register as an issue.

I don't see how it will work in anyones' favor except Republicans to run a candidate known for their abuses just because Trump got away with it so far.

Don’t be silly, calling the most rational decision abuse makes you sound insane.

There is nothing rational about jailing people going to the beach, and then holding your own private mask-free parties. You might as well be calling Boris Johnson parties rational.

I think it would be very unusual for the party of the sitting president to nominate any other person.

It would be very unusual for an ex-president to be nominated after a failed bit at a second term, but we live in very unusual times. Support for Biden was never better than tepid; people voted for "not Trump" and that's what we got. If Democrats can't find somebody more interesting by 2024, they stand to lose both chambers and the white house. If party wonks don't know that, they're beyond incompetent.

I think where a lot of people stand is that fear that party wonks do know that and they simply don't care if they lose again, because they can just keep playing the same games.

One hopes Biden would step down and not try to force himself on us again.

One hopes, but I think the Democratic party has shown enough times that it will gladly shoot itself in the foot if it somehow means owning the progressives.

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