Trump is just Biden his time
A bad pun for the end of the world
There is relief, of course, that Trump has gone. After Trump, it’s hard to conceive of any president that would actually be worse in all ways presidential — outwardly at least. On the other hand, it’s very easy to conceive of many presidents that would offer more hope for real change than Joe Biden.
When your best feature is that you’re not your predecessor, it’s a good indication that expectations are low. And Biden’s cabinet picks so far appear to indicate that he’s not about to raise expectations any time soon.
The Democrats, after sabotaging Sanders in successive campaigns, have once again managed to select their Wall Street candidate. Like Labour in the UK, they seem to think that creeping to the right but calling themselves centrists is the way to gather the trust of a generation of working class voters they have sold out to neoliberal unregulated free market capitalism.
It’s not. An unconscionably large number of voters chose Trump. Again, in spite of all the evidence of both his venality and ignorance. That is a warning. It’s not a sign of an epidemic of stupidity. It is a sign of a generation who feels unheard and misunderstood.
If many of those fall under the banner of white supremacy this, also, is the result of the double…
