An Unimpeachable Critique of Joe Biden’s First 100 Days
I’m not dead, so I guess things are going okay
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When it came to the idea of Joe Biden becoming the third man to become the oldest president in American history, within my lifetime, I greeted it with headlines for essays like, “Tell Your Mee-Maw and Them to Break Up With Joe Biden, I’m Bored.”
I didn’t want an old White guy to be president — or at least not this genre of old White guy. Someone, who, as a Democratic primary candidate, told wealthy donors that, in a Biden administration, “nothing would fundamentally change.” Such thinking was a mistake of the Obama Biden administration, which was transformative in terms of changing symbols of power, but not so much wielding it to fix what remains so fundamentally broken about our unequal system (even if as president, most view Obama’s record favorably than not). That’s why I worried when Biden told debate viewers he understood that most Americans “are looking for results, not a revolution” when, like it or not, the political ascension of Donald Trump suggests otherwise for a significant portion of the electorate.
