I wasn’t a Joe Biden supporter in the primaries. Of course, I wanted to beat Donald Trump so I was willing to support anyone who won the nomination. But my heart was with Elizabeth Warren and as a believer in the idea that you go with heart in the primaries and then fall in line in in the General, I voted for her first and then Biden with enthusiasm when the time came.
But, I will admit that there was one thing about Biden that made me feel positive about him from the beginning and it was his announcement speech. I felt that he understood the threat, maybe better than anyone. Whether he was going to be able to win or govern effectively, I didn’t know. But setting aside all the hokey, patriotic tugging at the heat strings, I did think he had recognized one of the most fundamental threats America faces in a way that others didn’t see with quite as much clarity.
America has been dreadful at living up to its ideals but it’s also been a beacon to immigrants throughout the world for centuries, which says something as well. It’s not all one thing. We are one great mixed up country.
But we can certainly do better than Donald Trump and his racist death cult, and we have: