Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland - Erick’s point another way. Key shared characteristic of Biden & Platner situations: No truly “new” allegations that prompted switcheroo. Everyone already knew Biden not mentally there b/f debate & that Platner was abusive scumbag b/f latest. Only thing “new” was polling information which, in the world we live in, is enough to permit Dems to override the will of the voters. That’s the story. And it’s a story that will have lasting significance long beyond 2026. Quote Erick Erickson @EWErickson Notice the pattern between Biden and Platner, because it is the whole story. In both cases, the primary voters made a choice. In both cases, the party decided, after the fact, that the voters had chosen wrong. And in both cases, the same institution that lectures America about authoritarianism and “threats to democracy” moved heaven and earth to override the expressed will of its own electorate the moment that will became inconvenient. The people who cannot stop saying democracy is on the ballot keep discovering, at the decisive moment, that they trust themselves more than the demos. https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/the-fire-alarm-they-refuse-to-hear https://x.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/2074868060461150561