So Biden had surgery recently and it was confirmed what they removed was cancer and this got next to no attention.
And I get that there's a good chance they got it, but he's not a pillar of mental or physical health (to be expected at that age) and the only campaign promise he seems to be delivering on is that nothing will fundamentally change. I don't see how he beats the fascists.
A Trump or Desantis win would, without hyperbole, in all likelihood usher in the end of even our sickened and illusory democracy. The consequences for the rest of our lifetimes will be drastic and dire. But the other possible Democratic options seem uninspired and they're playing a stupid game waiting for Biden. He's not owed an automatic nomination, but that's what this bullshit political system does. A healthy democracy would have challenges and debate with different ideas. We get none of that.
A Harris nomination would surely lose.
Newsom seems unlikely to run and while there's some to like there, there's also something kind of slimy about him that I don't care for. Still I'd probably rather he run.
Sanders might run again. But the Dems will surely sabotage and prevent any chance of him getting the nom. Plus he's very old too and has made some questionable concessions with the Dems that I don't care for.
Gretchen Whitmer might be an interesting candidate, but I haven't followed her career closely enough to really know all her politics. What's happening in Michigan is promising though.
AOC doesn't have the political capital yet, even though she has the cultural capital (but she's squandered a lot of that by falling in line with the Dems on bad policy that she supposedly opposes).
Max Collins is my off the wall sure to lose would never in a million years happen pick that I just want to watch because the discourse would be worth it.
I feel like perennial loser Stacey Abrams will run and lose again.
Buttigieg would be my absolute least favorite Dem candidate.
Williamson seems like the kind of person they get to run so that they can make good ideas sound like they're crackpot ideas.
Jared Polis is another I could see running. I met him years ago and talked at length about his politics when he was the Boulder rep. He's a compromise candidate in my opinion that could satisfy enough elements of the party, but which side he panders to seems like a coin flip.
Who am I missing here who might run?
