I 100% second this from @kataclyst, all of this. That was me too.
I was certain the party would bypass Harris. I was dead wrong.
In particular, I was certain that that there was a shadowy big-donor backroom-string-pulling effort to bypass Harris and nominate some Bloomberg-y type — and I may have been right about that, but if so, they got played.
The afternoon Biden dropped out, I went from horrified to elated in a matter of hours.
@inthehands If this keeps going this well and hopefully leads to a significant and incontestable election win, it’ll end up being one of the most successful political manoeuvres I can think of.
I wonder if we’ll ever learn how much of this was meticulously planned / well executed on the fly / luck.
I exclaimed “oh, f…” - and it wasn’t “fantastic” - when I heard the news and I’m glad I was so wrong. (Not that it’s done but it’s certainly looking better!)
@finestructure
Agreed, I really hope we eventually get the inside story.
I have my guesses but don’t know which parts of the planning spanned weeks vs months vs years — but the groundwork cannot have been a matter of mere hours or days.