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Mikes's avatar

Firstly - Congrats on the move! Hope things go well there. Secondly - My take on Biden has turned into one of pure apathy. He's milquetoast enough to absorb those abandoning Trumpism voluntarily, and those who just want things to be "back to normal". He's no where near what anyone actually wants in a president, but considering our current president is sending death squads to kill black people who just want to breathe in peace, I'll take the milquetoast. I can only hope that the Dems actually become Dems and use their mouthpiece to promote actual progressive policies, but will settle for a "return to normalcy" or a year or so. That'll give me time to refresh and get actual mad, instead of just worn down like I am now.

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Thank you for writing this, it has put a lot of my personal worries about Biden into words in a better way than I ever could.

Thinking back to the Remain campaign in the UK, I think it is fundamentally a bad idea to run on a platform of 'normal is fine' after over a decade of war, austerity, and decades of relative economic decline. Similarly, Made America Great Already was always a terrible response to Make America Great Again, and that felt like it was at the heart of the Clinton campaign. I'm not really sure a campaign that essentially hinges on setting the clock back to 2016 and 'no one's standard of living will change' is anymore of a good idea. I don't think this will win Trump more votes necessarily but it might mean people are not willing to go through the hassle (or danger this year) of voting. (My ability to be optimistic is not helped by the number of people on Twitter talking about people who don't vote must be massively previleged... which is literally the diametric opposite of what is actually true.)

For the record, I am British but would vote for Biden if I was able.

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