I believe, in the short term, Biden is smart to lay low and do the presidential healing thing. Because, and especially, with President Biden, it is heartfelt— this is generally who the man is. It also makes him seem the bigger man, as it were.
But at some point soon we need to return to a fighting stance, and soon.
The fascists are already blaming us for the predictable results of their own fascism. And using all our time to call out the heinousness of political violence eventually reads as defensive to me. Call out the political violence, but also blame to fucking Republicans for creating this shit-show— because they damn well are doing it to us. And the media is all too happy to help them with that narrative.
Going to breakfast ( albeit in a blue state) at a restaurant, the day after the assassination attempt,I did not observe too many people in a state of morning for the assault on the previous guy. An informal poll among my friends yielded ‘Meh’ to... I don’t think it is appropriate to say on a public political site.
We are still under attack. SCOTUS policies have already killed Americans, so time to turn the page