re: #488 HappyWarrior

I’d happily go back to 2016 but I hope Biden is astute enough to know that we’ll find ourselves in the same mess if we just naively treat the entire political right as just people we disagree with and Trump is a freak accident.

I’d argue that he is astute enough…which is why he is running on such a platform. Present Trump as an aberration, that Americans are “better than that,” and argue that a vote for him in 2016 can be forgiven if you get out there next year and vote against him. And it’s why I worry about his winning the nomination, because 2018 wasn’t about turning Trump voters against him as much as it was getting those people who stayed home 2 years prior to the polls. He’s gonna need to find something to offer to those folks, because they don’t feel a need to seek absolution.