You know the worst thing about this VP pick? It's the implications.
For months we've assumed the Dems plan for Biden to die mid term and let the VP be the real president, but what if that's not it. What if the Dems genuinely believe that he's a good choice for president?
It reminds of the fact that you can tell a lot about a political party by it's losers and worst members. Let's do that by looking at the losing presidential candidates of the last few elections (say, since the Reagan era).
Republican losers: George Bush, Bob Dole, Mitt Romney, John McCain. = Old and pretty much out of touch.
Democrat losers: Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton. = delusional and really out of touch.
It's likely that the establishment believes that Trump is so bad an incumbent that their voter base will wholly and unwaveringly buy the "vote blue no matter who" messaging instead of just opting out of voting altogether out of disillusionment.
And to be sure, there's a case to be made about Trump and, say, his handling of COVID and the implications of that on his presidential caliber. But the DNC likely honestly believes that America is hungry for change,
any change, even if that change comes in the form of the charisma vacuum known as Biden and the political prostitute known as Harris. They likely believe that the constituency will suck up the reality that Biden's partly responsible for our climbing incarceration rate and the increased dissolution of the African-American household and that Harris actively used lives (and particularly black lives) as pawns for her political advancement-- or they think that they can cast her as a victim of the legal system that she participated in. They likely believe that they can stave away the disillusionment of their activist and Bernie wings by continuing to cast Trump as
the Great Satan Volde-Hitler that they absolutely need to get rid of, no matter what-- "he's not
perfect, but he's a start".
They could be right, actually. That could be the case.
It's just completely cynical and tasteless.
Their current matchup has much for Trump to exploit, it is impossible for Trump to
not exploit those weaknesses, and it's unfathomable that the ensuing voter disillusionment will not be significant.
And if they lose, they can always say that Trump "stole the election".
...of course, Republicans are getting ready to say that the Democrats stole the election.
...this isn't going to be fun. Or perhaps it will be. Perspectives.
Remember, Biden can afford to alienate the black vote because the black vote goes DNC no matter what because of gibs.
The DNC owns the blacks and they know it.
The question isn't about getting the black vote. It's about getting enough black Americans to vote in the first place.
It's why Trump's (and the GOP's strategy, really) primary strategy re: the black voting bloc is to disillusion them, and then attempt to collect whatever few voters they can as a "bonus".