The question Joe Biden keeps asking: ‘Can we come back from this?’ | CNN Politics
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The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.

The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.

These days, multiple people who’ve spoken to him over the last year say, Biden often punctuates conversations with: “You think we can actually come back from this?”

The 83-year-old Biden continues to feel out a post-presidency that may prove to be one of the shortest in history and is already one of the most complicated.

There are days when Biden is heartbroken, indignant or in disbelief about what is happening as President Donald Trump — the man he defeated in 2020 — returned and moved not just to tear down his accomplishments, but to dig in with petty insults like the autopen photograph he put in Biden’s spot in the “Presidential Walk of Fame” installed at the White House.

  • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
    77·
    1 day ago

    Single issue voters are one of the biggest problems with US politics. They’re willing to ignore everything else about reality. Doesn’t matter if it’s Genocide, LGBTQ issues, or Abortion, it’s the same outcome.

    The worst option overall becomes the most likely.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
      104·
      1 day ago

      You don’t control the electorate. You don’t have to like the way people are to recognize that they are in-fact that way. Stop confusing how you want the world to be with how the world is.

      Candidates can either address the issues of those single issue voters or they lose the election.

        • kreskin@lemmy.world
          31·
          9 hours ago

          Are we participating in those genocides like we participated in the genocide of Palestine? Are we the worlds police?

          The answer is No to both questions. So the question becomes, why are you running interfernce for the genocide of Palestine? Personal for you, is it?

          • Devolution@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 hours ago

            You’re right. This is personal for me. To know that dipshits like you with your “moral high ground” is why everything is so fucked.

            But since your privileged white ass doesn’t have to suffer the consequences, oh well.

            Oh wait, even white people aren’t immune to it. Just ask Alex Pretti and Renee Good. You can’t can you. Because they are dead and fucking ignorant tankies like you are the reason why.

            Yeah it’s personal. People like you make me sick.