What has changed since the presidential debate? A lot and very little.
Francis Wilkinson
We are mostly where we were two years ago. An old president, past his prime, who supports democracy and the rule of law, is running against an old criminal, sexual abuser and serial fraudster who leads an authoritarian movement with fascist accents. The only difference is the old president is two years further past his prime, and the fascist accents are increasingly pronounced.
Most people understand there is no ready solution to President Joe Biden’s recent debate debacle. If we haven’t heard Democrats clamoring for Biden to be replaced by his vice president, it is because not enough Democrats want Biden to be replaced by his vice president. And if the vice president is not the obvious successor to the president, then no one is.
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Wilkinson is a Bloomberg columnist and former executive editor for the Week and a writer for Rolling Stone.
