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.
The people always act, governments are mortal, too, and it’s the people who kill them.
Organizing? I don’t think that’s a large-scale viable option any longer, due to the Patriot Act and tech. Almost all means of communication have vulnerabilities that are easily exploited; no big group can organize and communicate without a US agent present (or even organizing, sometimes).
I’m not saying to not organize, I just think that the action will be spontaneous and situational. Organized groups are just one more means of steady pressure (of many), but realize the limitations.