intrigue erupts
That palace intrigue, of sorts, on the personality figures and their subordinates of the Democratic Party. I understand Biden has a personal animus with David Axelrod, so goes the most notable and amusing moment in his call-in to Morning Joe. Beyond him comes a Team Obama which begins with the man himself and falls outward — and there you have a complicated relationship. A certain barely coded 2015 article in the New York about anonymous sources on background fretting about Joseph Biden would embarrass himself of he runs — I imagine Biden reading, knowing full well who each and every unnamed person was. And after all that, a 2020 drop-in to end Bernie’s possibility and coalesce around the default man after no one else in that field could pull themselves forward — comes 2024. Bill Clinton and Obama prepared for star studded affairs with Biden — a show of force, a show of unity — leak things to the press, late night talk show hosts flattered and then primed for their late night show duty. Flash forward yesterday. George Clooney has an editorial. Clooney speaks for himself. And he speaks for Obama. Or Obama speaks through him. Strange feeling of a dynamic, but it is what spokes of pundit class have latched on to.
I am not sure you can refer to Tim Kaine as something out of Clinton Land. Clinton Land died with Terry McAuliffe’s defeat — now we just stare at vestiges that abound. Kaine stares at poll numbers, alongside Senator Bennet in Colorado — and decide they have to cut this one off. On the House side, Pelosi — her last call from the unofficial head of the Democratic House — threads a needle to cut Biden out. It took a bit to get there, and she still sits at just enough plausible deniability to walk into the DNC Convention cheerfully as Biden releases no delegates.
Y’know. That Lichtman guy. The man hawking a book. 14 Keys, or whatever. Some things on his list appear subjective enough that we can redefine the terms with a different outcome to arrive at his magical six keys that will shoot out the Incumbent. Hell! We can redefine who the Incumbent is. Not to mention the contours of party division mass.