You know me, I can’t not post about Joe Biden withdrawing his nomination and endorsing Kamala Harris for president.
This whole election cycle has been a shitshow, but this is the most coordinated I’ve seen the Democrats look in, well, ever. And I am enthusiastic about that. Very much so.
I will never fawn over a candidate, because they all have to be human and whatnot. However, I believe a couple of things about Joe Biden: 1.) He acts in good faith, and 2.) He genuinely cares what happens to Americans.
I don’t want to be misunderstood. When it comes to his dealings with Netanyahu, for example, I’m appalled.
I also have to admit, though, that there are foreign policy issues that are much more complicated for him than they are for me. And so while I think he’s wrong, I don’t think he’s self-serving in his wrongness.
He abdicated yesterday, not because he was tired of serving us peasants and wanted to golf, but because he was asked to step aside and understood his oath.
In leaving the race, he’s pushing the reset button on our government. Not entirely unlike George Washington did when he got this whole peaceful transfer of power thing rolling—in the interest of something bigger.
And I’ll stop there. This is not a founding fathers stan account.
The show of unity from Democrats endorsing Harris and the $50M grassroots donations in the wake of my shock? It calmed and quieted my anxiety in the midst of upheaval. (Something frequent readers know is no easy task.)
That all of this comes in the wake of the RNC’s unserious, unnerving spectacle of a convention makes it so much sweeter. Anyone can call for unity, but it’s pretty clear who says “unity” when they’re actually demanding everyone fall in line. And it’s pretty clear who is actually trying to make unity happen.
Not everyone is happy about the idea of Harris becoming president. I have my own (relatively slight, considering) misgivings about her. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
The way I see it, if I don’t have issues with a candidate, I might as well tape a sanitary napkin to my ear.
Anyway, I could turn this into something way longer than you want to read and way longer than I want to write. But I actually don’t want to turn this into a whole-ass US election cycle. I’ll just finish with this for now:
I think we’re better off than we were four years ago; I think we’re better off than we were four days ago, and I’m looking forward to the next presidential debate.