Joe Biden’s video message was his initial and official foray into the presidential race. He started in the right place at the beginning, highlighting some of our greatest moments in history. It made me feel good. Absolutely nothing that Donald Trump has ever said made me feel good.
I do agree that latent and extreme ideologies have always existed, but they seemed to have overtly bubbled to the surface after Trump was elected. Trump unabashedly gave these ideologies legitimacy. Hypocrisy notwithstanding, I don’t think any other president in modern times has ever done this.
I don’t think Biden is “stuck” in the past.