Joe Biden Wants You to Just Calm the Heck Down
His success consistently comes from turning down the temperature
Remember, back in the Obama days, this old meme?
I feel like I saw this meme every week during the Obama presidency. There would always be some fire raging, whether it was the emergence of the tea party, or economic collapse, or WikiLeaks, or birtherism, or the 2012 election, and liberals like me would run around freaking out that it was all going to fall apart. This was the response that would make you feel better: Obama’s got this. He’s smarter than the bad guys, he has a plan for this, he knows what he’s doing. Everyone chill the fuck out.
It’s remarkable, after the four years we’ve just been through, that we were so panicked during Obama’s years in office. The worst dumpster fire of the Obama era wouldn’t make the top 100 on the Trump Chart of Atrocities. Every worst-case scenario we imagined during Obama’s presidency came true during Trump’s. And, it turned out, there were many, many worst-cases that we hadn’t considered. There were so many reasons to panic.
