From The Bullwerk and Jonathan Last today
https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/the-anyone-but-biden-fantasy?utm_campaign=email-post&r=45wcm&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Let’s play a game.
I’m going to give you a bunch of results from this poll and then ask you to create a coherent explanation for them in the comments. Your challenge is to explain a worldview in which the following responses are internally consistent.
Voters told the NYT poll:
56 percent have a somewhat unfavorable or unfavorable view of Trump.
Asked who would be better for “democracy,” voters give Biden a 48-45 edge.
51 percent say that following the 2020 election, Trump “threatened democracy.”
54 percent believe Trump has committed “serious federal crimes.”
52 percent say they do not think he will be convicted of any crimes.
Yet if he is convicted and sentenced to prison, then suddenly we get Biden 49 percent, Trump 39 percent.3
Asked if it would be “bad for the country” if Biden or Trump won:
Biden would be bad for the country: 44 percent
Trump would be bad for the country: 46 percent
Again: The net voting preference in this poll is Trump 48, Biden 44.
Draw me a picture and tell me how that all fits together.