Remember Dean Phillips?
Few do. Few even know who he was. Even more have only the vaguest sense that the Minnesota Congressman challenged the President of the United States in the Democratic primaries in 2024, and most of them probably assume that he did so because he was egotistical or on a quixotic quest.
It’s not quite so simple. Phillips knew he had no chance, and he tried to get more prominent people to run. He finally chose to enter the race because he knew that Joe Biden was not fit to be president and that if he ran, either the country or the Democratic Party would suffer.
If Biden won, the country would be saddled with a senile president. If he collapsed, as he did, the Democrats would be devastated and lose all credibility.
Dean Phillips, in @TheFP, says what should be obvious to his party:
‘Lying and gaslighting the public about Biden’s…
