Inside the Mind of the Biden Voter
By Jim Geraghty
September 16, 2019 11:01 AM
Understanding those not-so-young Democrats who aren’t looking for a revolution.
You were too young to vote for Jack or Bobby, but you always heard about them from your parents or grandparents. You’ve voted for Democrats your entire life, even though you haven’t always loved every nominee. In your eyes, they are the party of the little guy, standing up to make sure he gets a fair deal and his kids aren’t sent off to fight in some pointless war overseas. Bosses, big corporations, insurance companies — they’ll all screw you if they get the chance. Government isn’t perfect, but it’s the one force that is supposed to be looking out for you; it’s the one institution where if a guy’s doing a lousy job, you can vote him out.
You weren’t quite as shocked as your niece in the College Democrats when Trump won. You’re pretty sure that some of your neighbors voted for him even though they voted for Obama twice before. They, like you, loved Bill Clinton a generation ago. Now there was a guy who grew up poor and never forgot where he came from. You knew in your bones that when he said something like “I feel your pain,†he meant it. As for the skirt-chasing, you’ve known a lot of guys like that over the years. You wouldn’t want your daughter to date him, but sometimes a driven horndog like that can get the job done.
Hillary was different. Whatever she once may have been, she spent too much time in the Hamptons and Manhattan after she became a senator. She could talk a good game, but you never quite felt like she was telling you the whole story — all that money from Wall Street and the big corporations going to that shady foundation. Though you voted for her — heck, you weren’t going to vote for Trump — you understand why people weren’t so sure she was on their side.
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