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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Jun 2020

    1. The two concurrent crises -- the pandemic and the uprising -- have highlighted an important difference between Trump & Biden: how they handle public grief.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Jun 2020

        2. Grieving, of course, is a big part of Joe Biden's identity as a result of his personal tragedies. He's the Man of Constant Sorrows in a way no American politician has been since maybe Robert Kennedy.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Jun 2020

        3. The bereaved are Biden's special constituency. He has a way of recognizing them. Pre-Covid, he'd zoom in on them at events, comfort them, give them a hug. The fellowship of suffering is crucial to his brand of politics.

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Jun 2020

        4. Trump also has a politics of grief. He channels pain (or rather the select pain of his base) into anger. Grief is a pretext for lashing out. Some more thoughts on the politics of grief here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-secret-weapon-grief/ …

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      2. Ali‏ @RotaryCup 12 Jun 2020
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        The only meaningful difference is in the rhetoric. Joe Biden keeps saying “I hear you, I feel your pain” while having a history of - and continuing to - quietly pass bills and agendas that helped create this problem in the first place.

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      3. Brent‏ @thethirdman3 12 Jun 2020
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        Nonsense

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      1. Vote NO on H‏ @markhamiltonmsw 12 Jun 2020
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        Every politician is a narcissist, but most have the advantage of at least being able to access empathy when they need to deploy it. The advantage Biden has is that empathy is just a completely foreign language to Trump.

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      1. pjeanne‏ @p_jeanne97 12 Jun 2020
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        One grieves, the other is only ever aggrieved

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      2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 12 Jun 2020
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        Three crises though—don’t forget the economy.

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      3. Asexual Skank‏ @Baeofpaypigs 12 Jun 2020
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        4. We are (still) at war

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      1. debraj1121 expand a child's world w a diverse book‏ @debraj112 12 Jun 2020
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        More like it's the difference between being born into wealth and into the middle-class. In one, you are part of the world, in the other, not so much.

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