{"id":61138,"date":"2020-10-27T12:13:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T17:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=61138"},"modified":"2020-10-27T12:13:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T17:13:11","slug":"61138","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=61138","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry, there will be no return to normalcy under Joe Biden<\/a><\/p>\n

As the presidential campaign enters its final phase, one of the messages of the Biden campaign is that putting him, a 47-year veteran of national politics<\/a>, into the White House will return us to something approaching normal.\u00a0With Biden in charge, all the Trump craziness will expire, and things will be safe, sane\u00a0and familiar.<\/p>\n

In fact, there\u2019s no chance of this happening.\u00a0If Biden wins, things won\u2019t go back to \u201cnormal.\u201d\u00a0You probably won\u2019t even hear less from Donald Trump.\u00a0And in a lot of areas, like foreign policy, it turns out the establishment\u2019s version of normal wasn\u2019t all that normal anyway.<\/p>\n

Many of my lefty friends want Biden to win not so much over policy as because they have a visceral reaction to President Donald Trump.\u00a0They hate the sight of his face, the sound of his voice, even the mention of his name.\u00a0Electing Biden, they expect, will sweep Trump off the national stage.<\/p>\n

But will it?<\/p>\n

We are a long way from normalcy<\/h2>\n

Trump was big on the national stage long before he was president.\u00a0Why would he go away after the election is over?\u00a0He\u2019ll still have tens of millions of (probably angry) followers, deep pockets\u00a0and a huge megaphone.<\/p>\n

There has already been some talk of Trump starting his own television network to rival Fox News, and\/or his own social media platform\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the latter made more plausible by the heavy censorious hands of those running Twitter and Facebook \u2014\u00a0and I suspect that Trump would regard a 2020 loss as a setback, not a defeat.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Grover Cleveland\u00a0<\/a>came back to win a second term after losing the White House, Trump might reason.\u00a0Why not me?\u00a0He\u2019ll probably hold campaign-style rallies around the country starting right after the election.<\/p>\n

And the deep toxicity of national politics, which grew worse after the 2016 election but which has been brewing at least since the turn of the millennium, is not going to go away. In fact, a lot of what we\u2019re hearing from Biden supporters suggests that it will get worse under a Biden administration.<\/p>\n

Democrats are already calling for a Biden administration\u00a0to pack\u00a0the Supreme Court<\/a>\u00a0by adding new justices until Democrats have a\u00a0majority, to pack the Senate<\/a>\u00a0by admitting Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.,\u00a0as states, and even to establish a\u00a0\u201ctruth and reconciliation commission\u201d\u00a0<\/a>in which Republicans will be dragged\u00a0in front of the public and forced to confess the error of their ways.\u00a0And, of course,\u00a0abolishing the Electoral College<\/a>.\u00a0None of that is normal.<\/p>\n