there is a desperation and a conviction to biden now that i haven’t quite picked up on before, and as a hopeless romantic and a bleeding heart, it’s more appealing to me than i would have admitted as a younger man.

i mean, this is obligatory, but the last 12 years have changed him in pretty fundamental ways.

whatever you can say about biden, good and bad - and both are fair - he is a person who will steer through the storm or go down in it, and after four years of a man who gleefully pushed everyone who wasn’t a groveling sycophant overboard, i will sleep a little better tonight.