I know that it’s popular to dismiss President Biden. I get it. He’s old. This is the first election featuring the 2 oldest candidates, ever. So what? The future of the WORLD is literally dependent on this election. To boot Biden from the ticket and try to bootstrap another candidate is madness. Booting this incumbent and hoping his VP will succeed is like firing the cook and hoping the dishwasher will give you Michelin-quality food. Stick with the old man, and figure out a way to enact his popular policies while also expanding the Supreme Court, enacting term limits and limiting “Christian” Nationalists.

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    The Republican base has grown far beyond Fox these days, they’re all across the internet and streaming services now.

    I will say that Trump and Trump alone could maybe keep Republicans from joining Democrats in their campaign against Biden. I just don’t think he would. I think he’d delight at the chaos it was causing and present himself as the reason Biden was forced out.

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      You sorely overestimate how much they hate Biden. It’s all show, blather, style with no substance, messaging, whatever you want to call it. They could all flip on a dime, like a school of fish or something.

      They’ve been fucking over their voters for yeeears now. Their voters don’t exactly love tax cuts for the rich, according to polling anyway. But that’s all they get, over and over…

      They’re not stupid enough to harm their actual chances at winning and seizing govt just to keep a promise or have some lols.

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        You underestimate how beholden Republicans are to their base. The Party wanted Trump gone after 2020, but they couldn’t afford to piss off their base.

        The base doesn’t love tax cuts for the rich, but they don’t hate it either. They’re pretty neutral to class politics, if tax cuts supposedly create jobs then they’ll support tax cuts.

        But the base really does hate Biden, because he stole the election from their godking. That’s why I think Trump would be the only one that could save Biden. If their idol told them he needs to stay president then they’d obey, but if Trump poured fuel on the fire (like I think he would) there’d be a frenzy of people demanding Biden was executed.