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After Four Years of the ‘Trump Show,’ Americans Want a Return to Normal

‘Uncle Joe’ Might Be Just What Americans Need After Trump Chaos

Manny Otiko
5 min readMay 21, 2020
Vice President Joe Biden (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

I have to admit that I was not a fan of Vice President Joe Biden. (Sen. Elizabeth Warren was my candidate.) I thought he was too old, too slow, and lacked media savvy. (I shared these points in a previous article.) Biden had also run for president several times before and failed.

I thought his time had passed. But somehow he pulled out a victory and won the Democratic nomination. So I took a second look at Biden and realized that he just might be able to pull off an electoral victory in November.

Here are the reasons why:

Joe Knows the System

Biden is the anti-Trump. Donald Trump’s election was supposedly about shaking up the system, trying something new and bringing in a businessman to run the government. That was all BS. Trump is a con artist, he sold those lies to Americans because he’s an expert media manipulator. In reality, he was a terrible businessman, and never successfully ran a large organization. And even large businesses are dwarfed in comparison to the size of the federal government.

People want a return to normalcy. They want a leader who…

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Manny Otiko
Manny Otiko

Written by Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him at @mannyotiko.bsky.social

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