OK, Democrats, this week is the time to say what you really believe

There is a third reason: Neither option is good. Option one, Biden stays in office. He obviously wants to do that. There’s a NATO summit in Washington this week. The White House thinks that if he does well there, things will calm down and he can stall for time — with the convention (August 19-22) approaching, Democrats won’t risk an open fight at the convention that would split the party in two. If that’s the case, Biden’s coronation would generate as much enthusiasm as the Bulgarian Communist Party’s renomination of Todor Zhivkov in 1978.

The second choice is Harris. She Can Win. She Can Harris is a breath of fresh air. She’s a prosecutor and Trump is a criminal. Maybe she can put him on the defensive. But Trump will attack her in all sorts of ways. Mostly it will be about what a crazy radical she is, with her background in San Francisco (no, worse – Berkeley!) and her father being a left-wing professor. She’s none of that, so she might be able to get by with that, too. My biggest concern about Harris is that economics has never been her strong suit, and presidential elections often come down to who makes the stronger economic case for the future. Maybe she can do it, but we don’t hear her say much there.

The third option is the open option. A lot of people I know are excited about this. Ezra Klein’s Sunday Columnciting comments made by Rep. James Clyburn late last week who supports an open convention process. “You could reshape the current process into a mini-primary, and I absolutely support that,” Clyburn said. explain“We can’t shut it down, we should open everything up for the general election. I think Kamala Harris would do very well in a process like this, but it’s fair to everybody.”