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If You Want Another Trump in the Future, Biden’s Your Guy.
What exactly will a return to normal get us?
Trump’s presidency has had a funny effect on the democratic base.
I guess living in my own leftist bubble I sometimes forget how so many democratic voters have made a “return to normalcy” a top priority. The nostalgia effect is a powerful thing, and Joe Biden has got it on lock. He has consumed much of the democratic base, who associate him with the days of Obama and Clinton. Days when many of them weren’t confronted with the ugliest side of our country and human nature on an almost daily basis. Many of us understandably miss when we at least knew our president didn’t think wind turbines cause cancer.
The Trump presidency has caused such a feeling of desperation and set the bar so low, that it appears many of us are no longer focused on picking candidates based on policy. Instead, we’re turning to the candidate who we feel simply has the best chance of winning. Again, being in my own progressive bubble, I forget that for many people that means a more moderate, “pragmatic” candidate like Joe Biden.
While I’m almost certain that Joe Biden could beat Donald Trump, we have to pause and remind ourselves that when it comes down to it, this really doesn’t mean anything at all. I’m sure that even though…
