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"Increasingly unfit" how about how the entire media (aside from reactionary media) and his aides and the Democratic party hid his senility, lied about it, ignored it, made excuses for it, and accused anyone who pointed it out of distortion and having an agenda in order to let him push ahead with running again and save themselves the embarrassment of admitting the president of the US was not all there. All so the Democratic party could keep control and prevent scary things like a debate on supporting the genocide of Palestine and other issues they'd rather not allow discussion on.

When Biden stood on the stage with Harris after taking office I turned to my wife and said, "We're looking at our next President." I really thought they would put a lot of energy into promoting her as a logical successor. And even that would have been eleventh-hour politicking. The party should have been cultivating younger candidates years and years ago. AOC and her "squad" notwithstanding, US liberal politics is far behind the curve in promoting younger politicians, meaning not elderly.

So while I broadly agree with most of what’s in the article:

Nonetheless, Allen, Parnes and Whipple report extensive shortcomings in the vice-president’s own approach, including the flawed selection of the untested Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, as her running mate, as well as infighting between Harris staffers and Biden aides who maintained campaign control.

The only problem with the selection of Tim Walz was that they didn’t fucking let him off the leash. He CLEARLY had his head on straight - perhaps to the greatest extent of anyone involved in any part of the Harris campaign. But they muzzled him, because the things he said were often not too friendly to monied interests.

Responding to Guardian reporting on Whipple’s book, Klain said he “never doubted the president’s mental acuity”, and had merely expressed concern that Biden made tactical errors, such as thinking “being a great foreign policy president was enough”.

Foreign policy was the main problem with him! Did they just completely forget about the whole uncommitted movement?

I’d still rather Biden in the seat right now.