For as long as I’ve been following politics, Michael Barone has been one of the wise men to whose opinions attention must be paid. For the Washington Examiner, he looks at both of our two major parties showing every sign of nominating men most Americans would rather didn’t run. He calls this us being in a “doom loop.”
One explanation for Democratic voters’ stubborn and arguably irrational allegiance to Joe Biden is that they’re reacting to Republican voters’ stubborn and arguably irrational allegiance to Donald Trump. One explanation for Republican voters’ stubborn and arguably irrational allegiance to Donald Trump is that they’re reacting to the Democrats’ and most of the press’s grossly unfair treatment of him, from the Russia collusion hoax to the "Democracy Dies In Darkness" suppression of the Biden laptop story.
My gut says this process doesn’t end well.
