“You’re the worst president in American history,” Joe Biden mumbled as an aside during his first debate against President Donald Trump.
Presidential history is one long chain of new presidents stepping in to try and repair the damage caused by the unqualified person who last held the job. Perhaps most memorable in that regard is the presidency of Andrew Johnson, the enslaver and Democrat who ran as Lincoln’s vice-president. Just six weeks into his vice-presidency, Lincoln was assassinated, and Johnson began to systematically dismantle any planned progress for newly emancipated Black Americans following the war.
One of the only bright spots in this time of white nationalist extremism overtly and covertly condoned by the president and his supporters are the spate of 2020 candidates, like Mike Espy and Jaime Harrison, now talking frankly in their Senate races about the need to address racism in government.
Those changes have been criticized and blamed for everything from the adversarial nature of politics today to the shittiness of Republican social policies and thethat gave giant corporations like Walmart free reign to underpay workers and dick over small towns. But they were also the architects of greater governmental transparency and an important group for evolving Democrats from the party of segregation to the imperfect but markedly more inclusive party it is today.
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