The question Joe Biden keeps asking: ‘Can we come back from this?’ | CNN Politics
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The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.

The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.

These days, multiple people who’ve spoken to him over the last year say, Biden often punctuates conversations with: “You think we can actually come back from this?”

The 83-year-old Biden continues to feel out a post-presidency that may prove to be one of the shortest in history and is already one of the most complicated.

There are days when Biden is heartbroken, indignant or in disbelief about what is happening as President Donald Trump — the man he defeated in 2020 — returned and moved not just to tear down his accomplishments, but to dig in with petty insults like the autopen photograph he put in Biden’s spot in the “Presidential Walk of Fame” installed at the White House.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    88·
    7 hours ago

    You leftists scream about the genocide but what exactly did you accomish?

    What did you reactionary centrists accomplish? You handed us Trump. We gave you the path to winning and you chose not to take it. Its on you.

    Well now everything is fucked, the US has zero creditability, our allies hate us, ICE is officially the Gestapo, and concentration camps are being built.

    Yeah, your fucking fault dude.

    But hey. Continue the tired ass line about “well we should have had a candidate who was against the genocide.”

    You couldn’t win the election otherwise. Did you actually want to win the election or not? Because it follows that if you defended the candidate while they held an unelectable policy position, you were doing the work to get Trump elected.

    • Devolution@lemmy.world
      85·
      7 hours ago

      Leftists rarely show up anyways. But hey. Continue to shift the blame. Whining and doing nothing is what you do best.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        73·
        7 hours ago

        I’m not shifting the blame. I’ve always blamed fake “centrists” (read: reactionary rightwing voters who wear a blue hat) for losing the election. Its your fault.

        Did you want to win the election or not? Because there was a path to doing so: The candidate needed to change their policy on Gaza.

          • ClassStruggle@lemmy.mlEnglish
            31·
            3 hours ago

            Didnt show up for you, that’s what you are upset about. Liberals hate leftists because we refuse to drag ourselves to the right with you, you want the confirmation that what you are doing is right and we won’t give it to you, because what you are doing is wrong