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What was the Biden platform cept a restoration of norms and values people are fed up with?
Nothing will change... C’mon man!
I agree that Trump was pretty sloppy as an incumbent during a pandemic killing thousands, displacing millions of jobs, Looming homelessness, etc., The fact that it was this close says volumes about the Democratic Party as largely ineffectual and out of touch and only wants to talk to one another.
Joe Biden’s a creep and corporate schill that was favored by party insiders. People are sick of party insiders. Especially the openly corrupt types like Biden. Democrats proved Trumps criticism of themselves and the system and allowed him to run as an outsider again to his base.
In short, Democrats and their embrace of neoliberalism has left it unable to mount a strong opposition to a populist right alternative to it. All they can do is limit available options so that they are the default alternative to the neofascism that’s growing as a reaction to their decades of neoliberal policies.
Thinking the problems of Democrats to mount an opposition to Trumps right populist messaging as a lack of charisma is, IMO, more blame shifting away from the deep structural flaws of their party and their own inability to recognize it.
