@BarackObama his policies and his posture — just won a third term. Joe Biden will be president because of his close association with Barack Obama, because he espoused many of the same centrist policies and positioning and because of public nostalgia for the normalcy and decency the Obama years provided. @Biden is a restoration president-elect, elected to right the ship and save the system. He is not so much a change agent as a reversion agent. He is elected to Make America Able to Sleep Again. He doesn’t see his mission as shaking things up, but calming things down. But, just as was the case with Obama, many of the people who made Biden’s win possible are far to the left of him. As Biden told a Miami television station last month: “I’m the guy that ran against socialists, OK. I’m the guy that’s the moderate. Remember, you guys were all talking, you’d interview me and say, ‘Well, you’re a moderate, how can you win the nomination?’ It’s who I am.” But progressives are not likely to be as silent now as they were during the Obama years. Donald Trump Jair Bolsonaro Pm Imran Khan Janos Ader Brigitte Macron Joe Biden Narendra Modi Obama 3rd term Kamala Harris politics joe biden speech 2020