Just as Hillary Clinton positioned her run as a third term for Obama ("America is already great"), so did Biden (and then Harris) position their campaigns as a second Biden term. As Biden said (in 2019): "Nothing would fundamentally change":
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@pluralistic Love this one! It's one for the ages for sure. Really important to understand this if you want to understand US "new left" politics.. For people in Europe this one seems to be hard to get sometimes!
"for liberals, an equal world is one that fixes the problem that 150 straight white men own everything by replacing 75 of them with racialized people, women and queer people (whereas the leftist fix is abolishing the system in which 150 people own everything)."
Cory Doctorow
Toni Aittoniemi