Was thinking about it today and I think this might be the worst election ever. The jokes about 100% Hitler versus 99% Hitler are so spot on. Never in my life have I seen two candidates with literally nothing to offer the working class except death and misery.
obama's rhetoric was genuinely much more progressive than any of his policies. joe biden's 2020 rhetoric was also more progressive than his policies. joe biden's 2024 rhetoric is uniquely antiprogressive. they've just entirely given up on the idea that someone would actually campaign on a platform.
It swings back and forth a bit but not by much. Llituro is correct though that Biden is uniquely bad in terms of democratic candidates. We are just witnessing contradictions sharpening.
It's absolutely the worst election, by virtue of the fact that it's between the same two guys as the last election. I can't think of a more apt metaphor for a nation in decline than having the last two presidents duke it out again, despite the fact that everything got significantly worse during their terms. And there's the fact that they were already the two oldest presidential candidates in US history last time, so now they've broken their own record by 4 years.