Let’s be crystal clear here:
This Presidential election is not about "the lesser of two evils."
It's about one evil — a horrifyingly soulless bottomless pit of insatiable need for flattery and adulation, opposed by a decent human being whose politics may not be “good enough“ to make a lot of us on the left happy.
Trump is a white supremacist enabling, grifting, lying, cheating, tax dodging, embezzling, literally fascist fraud who will do anything to hold onto power, up to and including actively pursuing the injury and death of Americans.
Biden is a lifelong public servant who's done a lot of good and also had some really crappy failures that did real harm. Yes, my lefty friends, we could list them, and we know them, and they are not the point.
But Biden also actually wants to improve the lives of 330 million people. If the last three and a half years have taught us anything it’s the critical importance of having the Oval Office occupied by someone with the basic human decency to want to use that office to do right by the people he is charged with serving.
Do I think Biden is everything we need right now? No, I don't. Would I have preferred someone else from the Democratic field to be carrying the Democratic banner? Absolutely.
But knock it the hell off with Biden being "the lesser of two evils." Just because he's not the living embodiment of everything we need doesn't mean he's an "evil".
Biden is a good man. He respects the institutions of democracy. He respects the Constitution. He respects the checks and balances and mores that have held American governance together for over two hundred years. And for his flaws and failings, he truly believes in the ideals this country is supposed to hold.
So what does it mean that he’s not everything we need? It means that after he is elected, it's on us to push him to do better, to push Congress to do better, and to push state and local governments as well -- to basically be the ones who fill in the gaps between what we have and what we need.
The truth is that no President, no matter how virtuous, would do it alone. Not one of the candidates who sought the Democratic nomination could do it alone. The work to rebuild what the orange howler monkey has destroyed and is continuing to destroy will take so much more than one White House can deliver.
But Joe Biden will help start that work. Because he is, at his core, a good man. And he will be a good President.