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. 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. 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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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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Nonsense
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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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One grieves, the other is only ever aggrieved
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Three crises though—don’t forget the economy.
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4. We are (still) at war
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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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