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Colbert: President Sore Loser Gives Up Opposition to Biden's Transition After Exhausting Legal Options in PA

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garzooma11/24/2020 1:03:40 pm PST

re: #128 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

My fear is simply this: Biden is hobbled by not having a Senate to back him and a House that is only slightly in the hands of Dems and which could fall to the GOP in the midterms.

Competence is not valued by many, many voters.

Voters want emotion. Voters want to feel vindicated.

Biden is as milquetoast as any President in a long time.

So the time that is available really needs to be approached as the opportunity to run advertisement 24/7.

This is why Trump was so successful. He knows how to work marks.

Now I don’t want Biden to be like Trump in that Trump is decietful.

But Biden needs to be just as dogged in stealing the mic, of hogging TV time.

So I see a Biden Presidency as a full scale advertisement for what is needed in America, the changes that have to happen.

Being competent is not enough.

Josh Marshall expressed similar thoughts today at TPM:

…But beyond specific legislation or executive actions there is something more basic we should focus on - something Democrats have often done poorly at, not least in the presidency of Barack Obama, in which Biden served as Vice President. It is never enough to govern well and trust that voters will reward good governance. It simply never works that way.

Policy can never be separated from politics or the work of using policy to create the political power which can make policies enduring. […]

Quite simply, everything that happens during the first two years of the Biden administration must be planned and organized through the prism and organizing principle of the argument Democrats will make to voters in the 2022 midterm election.
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