Former President Barack Obama re-emerged on the campaign trail Wednesday in Philadelphia, delivering an across-the-board indictment of his successor’s first four years in office.
Amid the rhetoric, one specific set of lines jumped out at me as channelling what so many people — including Republicans who voted for Trump in 2016 — feel right now.
And with Joe and Kamala at the helm, you’re not going to have to think about the crazy things they said every day. And that’s worth a lot. You’re not going to have to argue about them every day. It just won’t be so exhausting.
That, for me, is the best and most succinct argument that former Vice President Joe Biden can make in the closing 12 days of this race. Deciding to fire Trump and hire Biden isn’t about any specific policy or even any specific mistake that the incumbent has made. It’s about a country absolutely exhausted by Trump — his norm-busting, his misinformation, his junior high school bullying, and his tweeting, his tweeting, his tweeting.
Donald Trump is relentless. (His most ardent supporters suggest that is why they love him so much.) He just never stops talking and tweeting. And almost always, his words and his tweets are self-serving, repetitive or dangerous. He promotes conspiracy theories. He insults his opponents — and sometimes members of his own administration. He lies.
It’s just SO much. The last four years feel like we have been running on a treadmill, 24 hours a day/seven days a week. And notice I said a treadmill. Because we aren’t going anywhere. We are just running in place. Trump mistakes movement for progress, and so he creates a whole lot of movement. But movement without results just makes us all tired.
Two-thirds of Americans in a late 2019 Pew poll said they felt “worn out” by the amount of news there is, roughly the same as the 68% who said the same in 2018. And to the point about how this feeling of exhaustion is not purely a partisan thing, 75% of self-identified of Republicans and Republican leaners said they felt “worn out” by all of the news while 59% of Democrats and Democratic leaners said the same.
While Obama articulated it more clearly than Biden has, it’s worth noting that this idea of people being tired of, well, all of it, has been present in the former vice president’s campaign since the start.
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