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    Apocalypse Not

    The Democrats’ situation could be worse. If they’re not careful, it will be.
    by David Frum Jul 02, 2024 4 minutes
    Source: Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Source: Getty.

    The great operational question before us is not “Is Joe Biden too old?” The question is “Do you trust the delegates to the Democratic convention in Chicago to replace the present ticket with a supposedly more winning ticket without ripping their party apart in catastrophic ways?”

    On this issue, I am reminded of the memorable definition of a conservative offered by the Civil War veteran and writer Ambrose Bierce: one “who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.” So call me an Ambrose Bierce conservative.

    Here’s just one data point to keep in mind. Joe Biden beat Donald Trump in among white men than Hillary Clinton did in 2016. In 2016, Trump won white men by a margin of 30 points; in 2020, Trump won white men by a margin of only 17 points.

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