Comment by mindslight

Trump had clear mental problems the first time around though, and the refrain that Biden was old and demented started well before it became a "real" topic in the election/media.

It feels like I've been hearing the word gerontocracy for years, but the problem is that real criticism lands asymmetrically on the conservatives (democrats), and ends up supporting the fascists as a desire for change - even when the fascist approach is to shamelessly embrace what's being criticized. [0]

So sure, now that the manic-combative demented guy is in office running amok (with his army of enablers who are just eager to see our society burn), the criticism starts landing on the newly incumbent administration. But apart from swaying a few voters, I don't see it developing into a larger shared understanding that maybe the past decade of Presidents and Senators/Reps was a grave mistake.

> we also could've had an open Democratic primary and probably avoided this entire situation

100% agreed on that. What a clusterfuck of shitty occurrences all adding up to one terrible path.

[0] tangentially that's why the fascist movement is a clown car of conflicting "anti-establishment" talking heads. It has united all of the "skeptical questioning" movements under one tent, even though the desired thrusts of those movements directly conflict with each other.