televised political debates over the years, a lot of them featured joe biden. he was on the debate stages in 1988 and 2008 and 2012 and 2020 . we are not even counting 2024, yet. if you had to pick one moment where joe biden was able to beat back his critics and win the moment in as few words as possible, it would probably be this one. an editorial in the los angeles times said, in addition to his uncontrolled verbosity, biden is a gaffe machine. you have the discipline you need on the world stage? yes. thank you, senator biden. that was joe biden during the 2008 democratic presidential primary debates. while moments like that did not win biden the democratic nomination, we later learned his performance on stage was a real factor in why barack obama chose joe biden to be his running mate. it is also a reminder that biden can be a very effective debater when he is calm and in control. by contrast, there is his opponent, donald trump. not a person who would ever willing
they are to donald trump. the one place there is no fracturing is now extremists have gone town by town and tried to take over school boards, health boards, really any kind of local government. they re doing it both by trying to vote people out, getting their own guys in there, but also by intimidation. groups like the proud boys have been in the back of school board meetings trying to intimidate people into getting rid of mask mandates or vaccine mandates, but also people have been trying to vote people out of school boards to try to enforce those things through legal ways. so that s really where this is all headed. they are trying to build a base on a town by town level. at that point once they re in the government or intimidated the government they can get the policies they prefer. and they re doing it in the wide open legally. these people are not hiding in the shadows, jonathan, they re running for office, fundraising off of these extreme views and they re getting elected. this