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The question Joe Biden keeps asking: ‘You think we can actually come back from this?’ (www.cnn.com)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/politics/p/909661/the-question-joe-biden-keeps-asking-you-think-we-can-actually-come-back-from-this

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.

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[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago

Polls that suggest more people saying he did a better job as president than Trump are a boost.

Damned by faint praise.

The vibe of this article paints a world eager to relegate Biden to the past. Not in any malicious sense, but as coldly as one might an aging parent that one cannot care for.