One thing: I wear a Biden/Harris button. When I was getting coffee, the barista grinned and said how glad she was to see it. I said, “I refuse to live in a fucking dictatorship,” and she agreed.
My point is, she is probably in her early 20s, and is excited and energized. She said she was glad to see my energy (I’m 78) and we both came away feeling hopeful.
The other thing: I saw a photo of a group holding a banner that said, “DEMOCRATS STEP UP OR STEP ASIDE.” (I may be misremembering, but the point was for the naysayers at the top of the party to get the hell out of the way.)
I think there is a great deal of energy out here in the grassroots that the “experts,” “pundits,” and certainly the media have missed, or dismissed as irrelevant.
I have no idea why this race is even close, but if we’ll just stop tearing Biden to shreds at every opportunity and get behind him, we can win this, and both houses of Congress.
I had a grin on my face as I drove away, and the coffee was delicious too.
PS Check out George Conway’s new PAC, the Anti-Psychopath PAC, aka the PsychoPAC. Good stuff.