Never Trump conservative slams 'Biden bubble' for being in 'desperate need of a reality check'

Never Trump conservatives have been expressing a variety of views on President Joe Biden's reelection campaign following his widely attacked performance during a June 27 presidential debate with presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.

Stuart Stevens and Rick Wilson of The Lincoln Project (a right-wing anti-Trump group) are confident that Biden's campaign can bounce back from a terrible debate night, especially if Biden and his allies show voters how destructive a second Trump presidency would be. Stevens and Wilson believe that looking for another nominee would be too risky at this point in the election.

But former GOP strategist Tim Miller and conservative journalist Charlie Sykes believe that Biden's campaign has been seriously wounded by that debate.

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In an article published by The Atlantic on July 3, Sykes emphasizes that Democrats who don't see the gravity of the situation are "in desperate need of a reality check." And he warns that some of Biden's supporters have been in denial about how damaging that debate was.

"Although the Joe Biden bubble comes nowhere near the cultist post-truth bubble that surrounds Donald Trump," Sykes argues, "the parallels are still troubling: As in the MAGA bubble, truth and facts came second to a longer-term strategic goal…. Again and again, establishment Democrats brushed off warnings of a problem. Polls consistently found that huge majorities of the electorate were worried about Biden's age."

Sykes notes, however, that some Democrats are sounding the alarm and urging others to realize that Biden's campaign is in trouble.

"Biden-friendly social-media influencers are exhorting the public not to air inconvenient truths if those truths undermine the party or the president," Sykes writes. "But cracks are starting to show in the Democrats' long-established narrative. The mainstream media are flooded, in a way that they haven't yet been during Biden's presidency, with stories about his worrisome lapses and pointed questions about his cognitive health. And, as his poll numbers sink, there is growing pressure on Biden from major donors and elected Democrats to step aside."

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Sykes warns that the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial 6-3 immunity ruling in Trump v. the United States makes the need to defeat Trump even more urgent.

"Biden's press secretary said today that the president is 'absolutely not' considering dropping out of the race — a statement his team is all but required to make until he actually decides to step down, of course," Sykes explains. "But, as Biden seems to understand, his margin for error is now vanishingly small. Meanwhile, the stakes grow higher: On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that U.S. presidents have immunity for all official acts, a decision that makes the prospect of a Trump 2.0 presidency more dangerous than ever before."

The Never Trump conservative continues, "Democrats claim to understand that a second Trump presidency would be an existential threat to democracy. We'll soon find out whether they are willing to risk it all by sticking with a candidate who three-quarters of Americans think is too old for the job.

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