The day after Joe Biden’s hair-raising near-loss to Donald Trump, The New York Times’ David Leonhardt innocently wonders whether Biden—who was supposed to have won in a landslide victory after Trump horrifically mismanaged the Covid response—was the only Democrat who could have won the Presidency. The fallacy here is obvious:
Accept at face-value the Republican claim that America is a red country, and that only the most conservative candidates can win.
Since Biden was among the most conservative candidates, assume his skin-of-the-teeth victory means that no one to the Left of him had any chance at all.
David Leonhardt, you are a credit to your profession… I just don’t know whether that’s propagandist or Looney Toon.
Source: The New York Times Morning Briefing, November 9, 2020.
