I am skeptical that Democrats have a master plan to dump Biden and Harris at the convention and replace them with a more viable set of candidates.
It’s the sort of thing that works in novels and scripts, in which Machiavellians in smoke-filled (these days the smoke is cannabis, but still…) decide the fate of political parties and nations. But the real world is generally much messier, with competing power factions, infighting, backbiting, and competition among rivals ensuring that things don’t neatly fall into place.
It’s not that all the major players can’t get behind an idea and push it–when all the interests line up it happens–but rather that when the brass ring is up for grabs everybody lunges for it. Replacing Biden and Harris would set everybody’s interests against each other, and finding a graceful way to align everybody’s interests quickly seems very unlikely.
But as…
