Biden is more than just an 'anti-Trump,' but he must inspire and unite voters—like Obama did
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In order to beat Donald Trump in November as well as heal the wounds he has inflicted on our democracy and our sense of peoplehood as Americans, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden needs to draw on the language and themes used by his former boss and gooBiden is more than just an 'anti-Trump,' but he must inspire and unite voters—like Obama did
In order to beat Donald Trump in November as well as heal the wounds he has inflicted on our democracy and our sense of peoplehood as Americans, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden needs to draw on the language and themes used by his former boss and good friend, President Barack Obama. Given that Biden clearly enjoys talking about his time as Obama's vice president and proudly touts the accomplishments of the Obama administration—which he is certainly justified in doing—I’d like to see Biden more often work into his public remarks a few renditions of «As Barack said...» Especially now, with the pandemic having further revealed the truth of our interconnectedness as Americans, Biden’s rhetoric needs to evoke our sense of community and nationhood, of being a single people tied together by a shared fate, of being, as Obama so often called us, “one American family.” Read more