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.
…So you agree you’re not a leftist?
I’ve explained this before.
I used to be much more left than I am now.
Spending time on this site and seeing how the leftists keep gatekeeping and infighting lead me to believe they’d never be a useful political bloc so I became a liberal so I can help defeat the republicans.
Any sane political movement would welcome me under their tent but leftists spend most of their time telling others they aren’t good enough to be there until it’s a thousand small tents with one or two people under each one.
Ah, yes, the “I used to be a leftist like you, but then I took a criticism to my ego” approach.
Re-read my comment if that’s what you took from it.
What I’m reading is you were fine with being a leftist while it gave you the moral highground to lord over others… until someone even lefter than you showed up and got the moral highground over you, then you decided purity tests are bullshit.
Maybe try it again.