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Joe Biden makes a great decoy.
I don’t think it his intent. But I’d bet it is where it will end up.
Through the vehicle of Joe Biden, the Dems are exorcising a lot of ghosts. just saying!
Just this week there’s been a purging on the Hyde Amendment, Anita Hill, the crime bill, the delusions of comity with today’s GOP leadership...saving time, I say!
Plus because Trump is too dumb to read anything but the top line of polls, he’s fixated on Biden. Nevermind the trend lines!
And we now have the most centrist establishment Dem scrambling to stake out a serious climate message.
Moreover, the most can’t-help-but-lash-out-activist/proxies on the left have concentrated their firepower on Biden. Not bad for the other Dems.
Of course I’ve been wrong before!
But will say this about Biden. If my theory is proven right, and it starts to become obvious, bet he both bows out with some grace when time becomes obvious AND continues to try and get under Trump's skin. But maybe the heat is making me excessively optimistic.
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Whooo boy, this writer is talented, but this is a piece written by somebody who's not lived here very long and substitutes a pastiche of indicators for actual understanding.

Says the person who lives 50 feet from the Kelly green building that went up in flames.
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