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Biden's idea was that ordering the DoJ to go after his political opponent, justified or not, would be something that would never be undone and the American people would never forgive.
He also had faith that the American people, when presented with a choice between a bumbling fascist idiot and anyone else, they would make the right choice. If he's right, not putting any pressure on the judicial branch should do the least damage.
He gambled for what he thought was the overall best outcome and lost. It's no coincidence that was also the path that required him to do nothing extreme.
America had forgotten how to do bold things. The Dems realized they couldn't campaign on status quo even though that was pretty decent and improving. And when they needed to come up with something more, their best answer was, "idk, $50k towards your first house, if the Republicans let us?"
I don't know which is worse, Obama for not forcing his Supreme Court justice through or Robert fucking Mueller, who was too fucking scared to actually outright say he's guilty af, even if he did line everything up for Congress to draw that conclusion.
There is a long list of people complicit in the current spiral towards dictatorship. Mueller, Comey, Roberts, Biden, Obama, Cheney (rest in piss)... Our current situation is the consequence of a rotten society. Trump is just a symptom.
How do you have faith in a system that you operate and openly admit cannot function as advertised?
Republicans are getting what they asked for - massive pogroms of brown people and high profile liberal dissidents.
Democrats are wringing their hands and shaking their heads, insisting the only thing they can deliver is... checking my notes here... Ah! Smaller pogroms against brown people and handfuls of minor right wing dissidents.
If the DoJ only catches the small fish under the Party of Rules Based Intentional Order, what do they expect happens when the big fish come to eat them?
Biden spent more time fighting with TikTok over pro-Palestine memes than Elon Musk and Peter Theil over trillion dollar securities fraud.
I don't fucking care. He's a domestic terrorist and now even worse than what I'm sure they thought were hyperbolic warnings. He should objectively be in the Hague, so I don't give a fuck if he's also a 'political oponent'. Biden and Garland failed in a spectacular fashion.
When history looks back at this time, i think Biden's largest failure, (in regards this matter), will have been breaking his promise to be a one term President. So many screw-ups happened off the back of that, his catastrophic debate; the funding making it difficult for any other nominee but Kamala Harris to run; the undemocratic way Kamala was elevated to the nominee position; the late in the day change itself.
I suppose it was his own self importance, but democracy is never about one person. Each person plays a part, it needs to be recognised and acted upon when that part has finished.
It's true, I do believe if the dems had an open primary they would have done better. I know many swing voters that abstained or voted for Trump because they hated that Harris was "appointed" and thought it was undemocratic.
I do believe at least some of them truly did get hung up on this issue. Others I believe were juat using that as an excuse though