This should be the springboard for a new era of Biden campaigning.
Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by LLBG Spotter/Flickr, Elaine Cromie/Getty Images, rcsb/Wikipedia, Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images, Unsplash, and Senate Television via Getty Images.at the inevitability of a 2020-election rematch, there has been something weird going on this election season—and it’s not just the despair of two historically unpopular candidates.
But that’s the thing—so many of the awful developments, so much of the malaise we’re experiencing now, have everything to do with what 2020 wrought, even beyond the occurrence of a mere once-in-a-century pandemic. From the—it feels like we started so many conversations in 2020 and have not figured out the ways to finish them.cast a shadow on everything after
. Even though the majority of Americans, and their government, appear to have moved on from the illness, we’re not yet free from its repercussions.And while there are a zillion individual prescriptions we could make for each individual crisis the pandemic wrought or exposed, the overarching feeling I get is this: As we gear up for another election cycle in which we normally talk about, we’re not even willing to remember where, exactly, we were four years ago.
—yet four years later, barely anything seems to have changed. We’ve been able to exit our homes thanks to mass vaccination—but even the promise of those vaccines didn’t quite meet people’s expectations, as the virus persists and weabout its current effects, let alone how the world is supposed to operate in recovery mode. No wonder people feel down about the government.
Everything in the air seems a little off. We’re all still sad and hurting in the years since 2020. If Biden could demonstrate that he actually gets why, and is willing to tackle the reasons, I think that more Americans would welcome that message than he thinks; they may finally feel their presidentthem and is trying to do something for them.
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