Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Pete: "Normalcy" got us where we are today. [View all]marylandblue
(12,344 posts)The next President will have to follow the worst President in American history. Orders of magnitude worse than Bush, who was probably only the 3rd worst.
There are lots of other answers I could give. The point though is that each moment in time is unique. It may resemble another moment in some ways, but in other ways it will be very different. Pete is running on the explicit assumption that this particular moment in political time is more like 1980 than 2016. Except now Trump is playing Carter and a Democrat will play Reagan.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. If you think this moment rhymes with 2008, vote for Biden. If you think it doesn't, vote for Pete. Or maybe Warren, who is also talking about fundamental rather incremental change.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden