Joe Biden's promise of returning things to normal may not even be possible

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As Joe Biden edges ever closer to the 270 electoral votes he needs to defeat President Donald Trump, it's worth considering what politics will look like in the event the former vice president is elected -- and whether he has any chance of making good on his promise to return some sense of normalcy to our politics and our country.

"The American people want their government to work, and I don't think that's too much for them to ask," Biden said in the speech announcing his run for president in May 2019. "I know some people in DC say it can't be done. but let me tell them something, and make sure they understand this. The country is sick of the division. They're sick of the fighting. They're sick of the childish behavior."

That belief -- that Trump was an anomaly, a glitch in the Matrix -- undergirded Biden's entire primary and general election campaign. He campaigned as the change candidate -- to change things back to the way they were in the not-so-bad old days when Republicans and Democrats fought but eventually found ways to work together.

Biden's message, broken down to its simplest terms, was this: We -- Democrats and Republicans -- are better than these last four years.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joe-biden-s-promise-of-returning-things-to-normal-may-not-even-be-possible/ar-BB1aJcS0?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP

I figure there will be normalcy in the Whitehouse at least but as long as Moscow Mitch still controls the Senate not much will get done.

[Guilded Lilly]

1. Biden will be a HUGE leap in the right direction. :)

[bullimiami]

2. he will do his best and it will be more normal than the last 4 years. thats all we can ask for.

[crickets]

3. I refuse to accept the media narrative quietly.

Biden isn't even confirmed as the winner, two Senate seats are still up in the air, and already the knives are out. trump has no choice but to go quietly if you stop pandering to him after he loses. Setting up the narrative that Joe might fail before he is even confirmed? F OFF, msn.

[ananda]

4. We citizens can give him all the help he needs!

We can march, demonstrate, protest and speak out
incessantly!

What's to stop us?

[Boogiemack]

5. Joe is just trying to be nice.

The sista's won't have any of it. Trust me. I hope James Carvell is somewhere on the consultant roles.

[Thekaspervote]

6. OJHC! Into the trash bin with this one

[still_one]

7. Just removing Trump will go a long way

[marlakay]

8. Joe might have to do temporary fills

For cabinet positions if Mitch blocks everything. My hope is that we don't end up with wishy washy republican lites and all moderates to right dems because of it.

[SidDithers]

9. Oh, Chris Cillizza, shitting on Biden before he's even been declared President-elect...

Sid

[MineralMan]

10. How about waiting until Biden has won before starting to say

he won't be able to do anything? Once he is inaugurated, then we'll see what he can and cannot accomplish.

This is premature complaining, it seems to me.

[kurtcagle]

11. Normalcy is an illusion

I'm going to go out a limb here and say that by January, there will be secessionist movements underway in much of Red America. I don't know if they will actually succeed, but you have half the country essentially brainwashed, and deprogramming them will NOT be easy.

I'm not that worried about McConnell. It's easy to be an obstructionist when you have 53 seats, but by the time you get to 51, holding the line becomes MUCH harder. All it would take for one senator to defect to the democrats.