excellent piece, thank you! though the biden dead-enders have largely petered out post-kamala, i feel like i’m still seeing a lot of trump assassination conspiracy theories pop up from even people farther to the left which is a bit concerning
Great read. I was too busy to keep up with what Blue Anon was going on about post-debate and was worried centrist media figures were making mountains out of molehills. I'm glad these bakes have died down, but I hope this doesn't signal an increasing trend toward left-of-center conspiracism.
I'm curious about how you've regularly cited Freud to identify psychological theories throughout your work. Considering his, uh, mixed track record, are there other psychologists or texts you can use for these identifications? Ones that are more contemporary and less obsessed with upper-middle class married women?
“…yet what is important to note here is that any rational agent who is concerned about a Trump presidency would want Biden gone from the dem ticket yesterday.”
Few people imagined that there would be such a quick and thorough coalescence of likely Democratic voters, Democratic Party leaders, and convention delegates, and potential Democratic candidates around Kamala Harris. Whatever groundwork had been laid, and in retrospect I think there must have been some, was not visible to most of us.
It would not have been irrational to be averse to the risk of chaos and infighting at this late date before the election and convention. Nobody knew what this would look like and it could easily have gone much less smoothly.
I am far less sympathetic to this point because before it happened I assumed there would be a pretty straightforward transition of power towards Kamala and then there was (many people believed this would be the case), but even if one was concerned about this (I still maintain an open convention would have yielded infinitely better results than sticking with Biden) it still does not explain many individual’s insistence that attacks against Biden from within the party by the media etc were malicious attempts to sabotage the party. Surely this could just be a disagreement about election tactics and not a conspiracy?
I assume it was not a conspiracy (well, I assume that some people were actually conspiring to streamline the transition, but that’s a different conspiracy). I just think the premise - that the only possible rational opinion, if one wanted Trump to lose the election, would be that Biden should step down - is not a reasonable one.
good read
excellent piece, thank you! though the biden dead-enders have largely petered out post-kamala, i feel like i’m still seeing a lot of trump assassination conspiracy theories pop up from even people farther to the left which is a bit concerning
Great read. I was too busy to keep up with what Blue Anon was going on about post-debate and was worried centrist media figures were making mountains out of molehills. I'm glad these bakes have died down, but I hope this doesn't signal an increasing trend toward left-of-center conspiracism.
I'm curious about how you've regularly cited Freud to identify psychological theories throughout your work. Considering his, uh, mixed track record, are there other psychologists or texts you can use for these identifications? Ones that are more contemporary and less obsessed with upper-middle class married women?
I think there’s a faulty premise in here:
“…yet what is important to note here is that any rational agent who is concerned about a Trump presidency would want Biden gone from the dem ticket yesterday.”
Few people imagined that there would be such a quick and thorough coalescence of likely Democratic voters, Democratic Party leaders, and convention delegates, and potential Democratic candidates around Kamala Harris. Whatever groundwork had been laid, and in retrospect I think there must have been some, was not visible to most of us.
It would not have been irrational to be averse to the risk of chaos and infighting at this late date before the election and convention. Nobody knew what this would look like and it could easily have gone much less smoothly.
I am far less sympathetic to this point because before it happened I assumed there would be a pretty straightforward transition of power towards Kamala and then there was (many people believed this would be the case), but even if one was concerned about this (I still maintain an open convention would have yielded infinitely better results than sticking with Biden) it still does not explain many individual’s insistence that attacks against Biden from within the party by the media etc were malicious attempts to sabotage the party. Surely this could just be a disagreement about election tactics and not a conspiracy?
I assume it was not a conspiracy (well, I assume that some people were actually conspiring to streamline the transition, but that’s a different conspiracy). I just think the premise - that the only possible rational opinion, if one wanted Trump to lose the election, would be that Biden should step down - is not a reasonable one.
Goated article, was very funny looking at BlueAnnon supporter's accounts following the announcement