Like many decent, progressive people, I've been alarmed by the return of the lying, criminal, rapist, fraud-loving, anti-democratic, narcissistic, ineffectual, dangerous Donald Trump to the American presidential race this year.
Despite the misguided worldviews of the Republican base who seem happy to tolerate the lowest depths of depravity their favourite candidate constantly embodies, despite everything his corrupt Supreme Court Justice appointees are doing to help Trump win, I still had confidence in the wisdom of the majority of the American people to not return this villain to the White House this year.
Last night, President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech put to rest any notion that Biden's too tired and unable to show the strength, vigour and inspiring progressive vision to excite the United States again and win this thing. Biden knocked it out of the park! He gave us all a tonne of great policy to get excited about and get behind to help him win re-election.
I've learned to ignore the media frenzy, the constant coverage of this race designed to keep you watching, keep you riled up and upset, and worried for the future. It's not real.
The fundamentals of this race are clear. And last night, we're reminded that Biden can and always brings it when he needs to. He did it spectacularly well in 2020. And I think he's in the process of doing it even better in 2024.
Time will tell but I'm feeling very good today thanks to Biden's performance last night.
In the meantime, if you didn't watch it, have a look at the speech from last night.
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