Joe Biden Did It! The Era of Divisive Politics is Over!
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Joe Biden Did It! The Era of Divisive Politics is Over! TaraElla Follow Nov 7 · 3 min read

Welcome back to TaraElla TV. The news is in: Joe Biden has been declared the winner of the 2020 US Presidential election by basically all the major media outlets. Congratulations are streaming in from around the world, from leaders in Canada, Britain, Australia, India, and more. In other words, Biden did it! Biden won, like I told you he would!

You see, I sort of see this as a personal vindication. The story goes back to 2017. Back then, Trump’s victory had created a crisis of worldview among many people. Seriously, that’s where it got to for many people, I’m not even exaggerating. I mean, I never liked Trump, but some people’s response was way over the top. Anyway, Hillary loss somehow led some people to be convinced that the Western world we knew was coming to an end, and that some kind of extreme response was needed. I remember telling people back then that Biden would represent the Democrats in 2020, and he had a very decent chance at winning. After all, Hillary ran an embarrassing campaign, she ran on identity politics that turned off many everyday working people, and these were weaknesses that Biden wouldn’t have. Anyway, my friends, as well as people out there on the internet, wouldn’t believe me. They thought they had to produce something like a big counter-response to Trump, something that would almost certainly be just as shocking and divisive as Trump himself.

Fast forward to the beginning of the Democratic primaries in 2019. Out of the 25 options, Andrew Yang was my favorite, but Biden was definitely in the top 3 or 4. But while people would be interested in me talking about Yang, Tulsi Gabbard, Bernie, or even Pete Buttigieg, they often got turned off by Biden, to the point that I had to sort of avoid talking too much about him. You know, all I wanted was a uniter. By that point, I had seen too much division and polarization, and I was seriously committed to being above the whole left vs right thing. Saving the social fabric was the first priority, because only that way would Enlightenment liberal values be preserved. I thought that, if the Democrats produced another divider, it would be worse than just having Trump, because instead of just one divider there would be two dividers. And if one divider was already causing so many headaches, two dividers would be unimaginably bad. So I would only support a uniter. The uniters in the field included Yang, Gabbard, Buttigieg, Booker, Bernie Sanders, and yes, Joe Biden. I remember thinking that Kamala Harris was divisive back then, but she has since improved a lot, and I like that.

Anyway, I remember that people on the Left, in particular, were saying how Biden couldn’t win. He was too old-fashioned. His politics of consensus was so 20th century. He didn’t have all the exciting big plans like Elizabeth Warren. He didn’t speak well. It turns out that they were wrong. They were out of touch. Biden always led in the polls, and while the expected landslide didn’t come, Biden got a pretty decent victory, rebuilding the Blue Wall in the midwest as well as potentially taking out red states like Arizona and Georgia. Where Hillary failed to connect with the common working family, Biden succeeded. That was what was most important. Everyday working families don’t like dividers, after all. Many people who tuned out of the 2016 race, because both Trump and Hillary were dividers, finally found a candidate they like this year, in the uniter Joe Biden.