{"id":12976,"date":"2020-11-05T11:25:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T10:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=12976"},"modified":"2020-11-05T21:09:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T20:09:39","slug":"12976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=12976","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/americas\/20201104-the-predicted-blue-wave-never-came-and-america-s-wounds-are-unwashed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">France 24<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The much-anticipated \u201cblue wave\u201d did not wash across the electorate because, among other reasons, it was based on \u201cthe idea of a very, very large mobilisation of anti-Trump sentiment, not so much an adhesion to <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Joe Biden<\/span>,\u201d explained <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Philip Golub<\/span>, political science professor at the American University of Paris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden was a weak candidate, he was not present,&#8220; Golub explained. &#8222;He maintained a low profile, since the assumption the Democrats made was that this would make Trump\u2019s faults stand out. But it made Biden appear invisible. When he did go to the public, he didn\u2019t have a charismatic personality or platform. Even if he wins the election, it will be by a much smaller margin than expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact is, Biden\u2019s message of healing America, of working across the aisle, does not work when the other side wants war \u2013 not an armed war, a political war,\u201d said Golub. \u201cObama tried to work with the Republicans, the Republicans tried to bite and cut his hand off. The idea of reconciliation doesn\u2019t work when the country is so fractured, these are just words that do not have any purchase on social reality. That requires charismatic leadership, the ability to pick up a historical situation that you, as a leader, can provide a solution. Biden doesn\u2019t incarnate much of that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France 24: The much-anticipated \u201cblue wave\u201d did not wash across the electorate because, among other reasons, it was based on \u201cthe idea of a very, very large mobilisation of anti-Trump sentiment, not so much an adhesion to Joe Biden,\u201d explained &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=12976\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}