Greater. Much bigger player in the show. Liked the Ford-Taft poster in last post-Lindbergh election scene. Perfect.
"Return to normality" is a very potent political pitch. It's why Biden is the nominee and will help him win the White House. But it's not a very realistic political program. Harding's "normalcy" proved just an interlude between crises.
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This is a period of maximal uncertainty. No "political program" can possibly be "realistic," much less convincing. Better to pitch "normalcy" now, improvise later as necessary.
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Agreed -- it's the most powerful political pitch at the moment. Even FDR ran on a kind of normality platform in 1932 (promising to cut the debt!). But I want to underscore that the normality isn't on the table & next president will be governing over a systemic crisis.
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One can argue most if not all generally peaceful political eras are simply interludes between crises.
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