If you have a couple brain-cells and aren't brainwashed into the cult, criticizing Biden isn't suddenly going to make you vote for trump instead.
The issue is when you DON'T/CAN'T criticize "your guy" (like most trump supporters).
I don't think anyone's seriously thinking Biden voters, at least outside of a small subset, are going to suddenly switch to Trump - maybe ones really pissed about inflation or broken promises about student loans or w/e.
But if they think ' yeah, Biden's old, I don't think he's got the chops, I'll stay home', and there's enough of them..then that's it.
But it's moreso the framing I take umbrage with - I don't, outside of creating more apathy, care that Jon criticizes Biden's age - obviously the Biden team ABSOLUTELY needs to find a solution to this perception problem - be it putting Joe out there more, having him do more events, whatever - to fix, at least somewhat, the perception he has currently.
But I don't know that the sentiment (even if he does go back to Trump being worse) of 'Trump may suck for democracy, but we'll be okay if he wins, the office doesn't matter as long as we keep striving to be more lowercase-d democratic - and hey, isn't Biden old' is really a salient/pertinent message at this point - especially when Trump is LITERALLY showing his fascist playbook for 2024, and putting it out into the open....and a lot of people are just...ignoring it.
Maybe Trump, if he does win, will be similarly hamstrung like a lot of his first term....but maybe he won't.