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A Presidential Administration is a Team

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As you speak to skeptical friends about the coming election, how do you counter the “both sides” arguments? How do you undermine doubts sown by his opponents about Biden’s supposedly diminishing faculties? Here’s an obvious approach: Biden, as an individual, only matters so much. 

A presidential administration is a team, not an individual....unless you are Trump, who runs his admin like a closely-held family business where everyone's status and position directly depends on the Boss’s temper.

  • Biden will appoint competents interested in public service to run the various agencies.
  • He will rebuild the policy making and decision making mechanisms of the Executive Branch.
  • Priorities will be set and sober governance will occur.
  • He will renew hollowed out cabinet departments.
  • He will respect precedents and the common decencies and conduct himself and his admin with due gravitas.

Trump's administration is a direct reflection of the limitations of his personality disorder: a collection of grifters, opportunists, incompetents, ideologs, and religious fanatics all pursuing their individual goals in the vacuum left by his hermetic egotism.

  • Expertise is ostracized.
  • Major internal and external threats are ignored.
  • Planning and deliberation are nonexistent.
  • He is easily manipulated.
  • Score-settling is the principal preoccupation.

The difference between the candidates is categorical not a matter of degree.
Biden is not the lesser on a scale of evil.
He represents normality while Trump represents pathology.

Not perfection, just normality.
You may not agree with his policies, but he will have policies.

I think there is a hungry craving for normality in the country amounting almost to PTSD. 
Appealing to normality and to the idea that Biden will return the country to normal processes is a powerful argument.


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