Back in the 2016 Democratic primary season, I was 100% in Liz Warren's camp. Having followed Joe Biden's career, I found him to be too much of a centrist, a corporation-friendly Delaware guy, for my comfort. I have to say that I have been pleasantly surprised by the man's 'presidenting'. I am especially pleased with Biden's historic nominees for his administration- the first Black female Vice President, the first Native American Secretary of the Interior. Biden, that old white man, had surrounded himself with talented women of color.
And here we have what an earlier Biden himself would call a Big Fucking Deal, but this is a bigger deal than the Affordable Healthcare Act- the confirmation of America's first Black woman as a justice of the Supreme Court. The Republican attacks on her were disgusting (claiming she was soft on sexual predators, and allegations that she wasn't well qualified, and the perennial 'most liberal nominee to the Supreme Court' assertion that they think sounds bad. She's brilliant, she's had a career which perfectly suits her for the position, and she is a history-maker. The naysayers' tears are delicious.
Again, I thought that Biden was going to be sort of a 'placeholder' president, one to keep things steady as the country moves to dig itself out of the ditch The Former Guy put it in, but the only placeholding he's doing is holding places open for a new generation of public servants who, in the aggregate, more resemble the population of These Here United States.
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100% agreed. Your last paragraph nailed it perfectly.
He really has impressed me.
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