Amid the rhetoric, one specific set of lines jumped out at me as channeling what so many people — including Republicans who voted for Trump in 2016 — feel right now.
“And with Joe and Kamala at the helm, you’re not going to have to think about the crazy things they said every day. And that’s worth a lot. You’re not going to have to argue about them every day. It just won’t be so exhausting.”
Donald Trump is relentless. (His most ardent supporters suggest that is why they love him so much.) He just never stops talking and tweeting. And almost always, his words and his tweets are self-serving, repetitive or dangerous. He promotes conspiracy theories. He insults his opponents — and sometimes members of his own administration. He lies.
It’s just SO much. The last four years feel like we have been running on a treadmill, 24 hours a day/seven days a week. And notice I said a treadmill. Because we aren’t going anywhere. We are just running in place. Trump mistakes movement for progress, and so he creates a whole lot of movement. But movement without results just makes us all tired.
While Obama articulated it more clearly than Biden has, it’s worth noting that this idea of people being tired of, well, all of it, has been present in the former vice president’s campaign since the start.
Since then, Biden has repeatedly cast his campaign as a return to normalcy, a return to the way politics used to be. Which, if you think about it, isn’t really a partisan statement at all. It’s simply saying that Trump is an anomaly. That his consistent and constant viciousness and selfishness don’t fit within the traditional structure of party politics. That being, well, the way Trump is has nothing to do with being conservative or liberal, being a Democrat or a Republican. It’s totally distinctive to Trump. And according to Biden, it will end if Trump is voted out.
Again, Obama paints well what that sort of future might look like.
“You might be able to have a Thanksgiving dinner without having an argument,” he said. “You’ll be able to go about your lives knowing that the president is not going to retweet conspiracy theories about secret cabals running the world or that maybe SEALs didn’t actually kill bin Laden.”
Which, yeah. That would be different.
Source : Nbcnewyork