I mean, it seems to done what it was designed to do: it got Biden to start showing some backbone, and frustrates the hell out of the trolls who attack him.
It’s really not any different than the Republicans reclaiming the term “deplorables.” We reclaimed “Let’s Go Brandon,” and are actually using it for something.
And he’s not an evil dictator. He just does all the leftist things that the right thinks are evil. The whole joke is that we on the left would like it if Biden were the socialist boogeyman the right portrays him as.
Honestly, the fact that the right finds it “cringe” means it’s working. Because what they think about Biden is very much cringe.
It’s nice to have finally moved Democratic rhetoric to the 21st century, rather than ceding that ground to Trumpists and the alt-right.
I listened to Biden’s speech. I had a weird sense of deja vu.
See, a few days ago I got a call from a local pollster who had me answer a bunch of questions (it took about a half hour, no exaggeration). The language she used matched almost everything in Biden’s speech. It was almost like someone was checking to see if people care about specific talking points ahead of time. (Maybe it was coincidence.) But it felt like someone took Mad Libs and stitched the poll answers together into a Presidential Address.
The only reason why I think it was a coincidence is that it was only a few days ago. If someone really was polling for talking points ahead of the speech, you’d think they’d need more time. But it was still weird.
He was referencing a small minority of extremists, he was even careful to clarify that most Republicans are not the MAGA sort that rejects democracy and the Constitution.
The ones to be put away, presumably, are those that break the law in efforts to be “patriots” as they attack this country.
He has to do that for political reasons, but we will see if it is actually true come the November elections. I highly doubt that the politicians who voted to condone the attempted violent coup will be rejected by the voters in their district. Even with an unprecedented seismic shift in attitudes, the most that would be possible is 80% of Republicans will still vote for extremists in November. (If people who refuse to condemn a coup attempt aren’t extremists, then who is?)
And the small batch of new candidates that didn’t have a chance to support treason yet are even more extreme than the ones they replaced, so it’s not as if voters in other districts will have a chance to vote for newly moderate Republicans.
I’m a fan of the “Dark Brandon” meme, not because it’s good but because it’s stupid in the exact right way to combat the stupidity of “Let’s Go Brandon.” The only way to respond to a stupid meme against you is with a stupid meme for you.
