Charlie Pierce Esquire
Charlie Pierce Esquire

The news site Semafor got hold of a memo containing a proposal for how the Democratic party should select its replacement candidate should the president decide to leave the race. Believe me when I tell you this: You could put the Ringling Brothers, Barnum, and Bailey to work on the problem and they couldn’t come up with a bigger circus than the one proposed in this memo. Just reading it made me long for the days of the smoke-filled hotel room, and it had me burning incense and chanting in order to commune with the spirit of Mark Hanna.

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