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The danger of Biden
Donald Trump is the worst president in U.S. history. I state that up front because I recognize the danger of his holding of the office. At the same time, Trump is not the only risk that we face. His incompetence has been a protection from his impulses, but the disquieting thought that stays with me is that there must be persons of similar moral emptiness observing from off the stage, biding their time until they can employ the methods that he has used instinctively. And to anyone who says that the country will surely have learned our lesson, I point out the language being used in reference to Joe Biden. The latter is seen as electable, and I am told over and over that his platform does not matter. Voters who are willing to accept anyone simply for not being the other guy are primed to support a sane and intelligent version of Trump. But that is not the only problem with Biden. It is precisely his aura of normality, his rejection of the Dionysian forces that make his his own kind of danger.
This is because Biden has declared his disdain for anyone who was not pleased with the neoliberal collusion between Washington and Wall Street, his contempt for anyone who seeks actual progress. He said in an interview in 2018 that he has no empathy for millennials, expressing the old man’s attitude toward those pesky kids and complaining that his generation led the country forward with the movements for the rights of…
