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Jan A's avatar

We have to stop looking to the president for some mythical unification that will occur. It won't occur with anyone who looks at the press, Democrats, Liberals, feminists, BLM, etc, as terrorists and "enemies of the 'people'" (because this narrow slice of delusion gets to say who "the people" are?). It's hard to not admire the battle strategy of Trump and other GOP leaders, proclaiming themselves the "pro-life" party while committing countless acts that are the opposite of "pro-life." Married to the evangelical mob and joined by Catholic crusaders, the GOP now has a ready-made army formed to fight not only against abortion rights, but any mythical evil that has now been attributed to Democrats. If we kill innocent babies, why wouldn't we be also sacrificing them and running pedophile rings? And why WOULDN'T we have stolen the election to continue our nefarious crimes?

(Has there ever been a good expose of pro-life Republicans who have had abortions or asked their partners to get one?... Of course, any of those "crimes" would have happened in the past, before they were "born again" like Trump...)

No, Biden's role isn't to reach the unreachable. His goal should be to make the "unreachable" a narrower and narrower slice of the country, continuing to do whatever he can to help as many Americans as he can, and to do the right thing as a world citizen.

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Lou's avatar

The press confuses unifying the country with unifying or more accurately, appeasing the Republican Party. Fact - The Republicans lost the House, the Senate, and the Presidency therefore I believe Biden does have a mandate. More importantly as you point out, Biden's economic bill has the approval of over 70 percent of the country. Biden himself has an approval rating of 61 percent, a percentage Trump never saw in four years of being in office let alone even reaching 50 percent. The Democrats need to press forward and pass progressive agendas that the country largely supports. Due to voter suppression and gerrymandering it only appears that the Republicans are a powerful party. They are not and folks are dropping from the party in droves. The way forward and the way the Democrats keep power is to forge ahead regardless of the Republican Party's claims of non bipartisanship. The real hero, in my opinion, so far in the Biden administration is Jen Psaki who goes out there every day and squares up every fastball the DC press fires at her. How she does that without throwing something at them is a testament to her professionalism and her ability to clearly articulate what the Biden administration is attempting to do. What an amazing difference from the nightmare over the last four years.

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