The Antidemocratic Uprising Against Joe Biden

Millions vote for a candidate, propelling him to victory. Before the voters’ decision is formally certified, people who don’t like the outcome demand that the election results be thrown out and a different candidate selected in a closed process. That was America on January 6, 2021. And now, some in the Democratic Party want to follow a similar script.

The Democratic Party held 57 primaries and caucuses; voters in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories had their say, as did Democrats abroad. Joe Biden won 87% of the vote.

Yes, the case for change not met. Even if Biden suffered some incapacitating condition after all of those millions of votes had been cast, say, in“those 23 days” in June, then the proponents of change have met that element of the case for change and the nullification of those votes. But it is still required of them that they propose a feasible democratic process, a re-vote in a national primary for instance, to choose an alternative to the democratic winner of the Democratic Party primaries. I asked a virulent ABJ friend about this. He misunderstood the question at first:

What is the democratic mechanism to replace Biden?

There isn’t
People need to get him to walk away
If leaders and everyone had said drop out he might have

No: let’s say he drops out, how does his replacement get chosen?

Smoke filled room I guess

That is what would happen under current rules! The president would have to step down, then release all of his delegates to the Democratic National Convention, turning the convention venue into one humongous smoke-filled room where all sorts of antidemocratic horse-trading and deal-cutting and promise-making would take place. That is a non-starter for me.

Right! Negating all primary votes.

My friend sees the end justifying the means.

I’m ok right now with that
Process be damned
Trump is so dangerous and even more so with immunity I don’t care how sausages are made


And he may be right! In this unique situation, when Democracy in America truly is on the ballot, then the end is justified by all means (short of assassination). But my friend is convinced that Anybody But Joe will beat Trump democratically. ON NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER! To justify a thoroughly antidemocratic nullification of millions of votes in this emergency, I would have to be convinced that there is a product of the smoke-filled room who would beat Trump. AND THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT THERE IS SUCH A WHITE KNIGHT!