I’m starting a counter-narrative in which old man Joe is the shrewdest pol of our time.

He waited for 50 years, studying this country’s every move. He understood the power of modest masked non-rallies & Seamus Heaney. And he pulled together the biggest coalition in US history. https://twitter.com/drjasonjohnson/status/1324193055025569792
Played it cool during the primary, knowing he a close ally in Rep Clymer, which let him smash SC. Chose Kamala Harris. Let attacks on his son roll off him. Had his primary opponents stump for him brilliantly.

Played a recessive, prudent, lethal game that was heavy on passing.
He knew he couldn’t be a “movement” politician. That was for Obama. Or Bernie.

He was too old—and anyway movements end in a whimper or Stalin. So he became a campaign politician, with one goal: to win this one. And to...”save the soul of America.”
President Thanos: I am inevitable.
Iron Man: And I am Joe Biden.
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