1. Amid the economic meltdown and Trump's disastrous mishandling of the pandemic, there's a natural desire for safety. Biden's "return to normality" message is gaining resonance based on that.https://twitter.com/NaomiAKlein/status/1237035866612211714 …
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3. An Axios piece from this morning floating various appointments Biden could make gives a sense of what "return to normality" might mean in actuality; a return to the Democratic wing of Wall Street (with, maybe, a sop to the left with a Warren appointment).pic.twitter.com/pp9iJwDvXl
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4. The deeper problem with "return to normality" is a simple logical one: it was normality that got us into this mess by creating the conditions that elected Trump. Or as the man says.pic.twitter.com/mbvPu689D7
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5. In a deeper sense, we need to accept there will never again be normality, certainly not in an age of climate change. Our problems are only going to get bigger, which is why seeking comfort in familiar paths is a stopgap measure. More thoughts here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-danger-playing-safe/ …
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Aaah, a nuanced take, ruuuuun!
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America seems like one of be few places where this messaging could work bc it’s citizens have no grasp of history or even a reliable memory of the last 10 years
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yeah, and I can't shake the feeling that if we do enter a period of big economic turmoil they'll lean into that messaging even more
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Which is why if you had any sense you would have fell in behind Warren three weeks ago. Now you're going to get Jamie Dimon and Robert Rubin as Treasury Secretary.
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Depends what he means, depends what he does. Part of “normality” for me means not being in full-time catastrophe mode.
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