Biden seemed, to many, to be the man who could provide it, the man who could loosen Trump’s stranglehold on our society.
Democrats were afraid to take too much of a chance with their nominee. Wanting too much, let alone demanding it, felt dangerous.
So we settled on the elder statesman. The straight white man. The middle-of-the-roader: not too hot, not too cold, lukewarm.
He was the “scrappy kid from Scranton,” the unapologetic “union man” who could win back the pixies of politics: the working-class white voters who could back Barack Obama in one election and Trump in the next.
Biden pitched electability moderation rather than transformation and voters liked it.
However, now there is a new realization.
So we settled on the elder statesman. The straight white man. The middle-of-the-roader: not too hot, not too cold, lukewarm.
He was the “scrappy kid from Scranton,” the unapologetic “union man” who could win back the pixies of politics: the working-class white voters who could back Barack Obama in one election and Trump in the next.
Biden pitched electability moderation rather than transformation and voters liked it.
However, now there is a new realization.
There is a hardening perception that the president isn’t even being silently productive, but voiceless and vacant.
A new poll from Morning Consult and Politico finds that 42 percent of registered voters say that Biden has accomplished less than they expected. More than a quarter of Democrats felt this way.
No comments:
Post a Comment