• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    it implies he doesn’t think Harris has the chops

    Or that he changed his mind. Or that his assurances to aides that he wouldn’t run for a second term were just to shut them up.

    Power is seductive, and I think it’s pretty likely that once he became president, he convinced himself that he was still the best one for the job, and that he uniquely deserved to continue to govern.