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daniel December 4, 2021May 13, 2022 Experience as Nostalgia, Frightening Similarities, Frightening Similarities between the man who started the Civil War and Joe Biden, The Death of Compromise, The Helpless President, The Limits of Experience, The Only Issue, The Paper President offers Nothing, The Tragedy of James Buchanan

Frightening Similarities between the man who started the Civil War and Joe Biden

However, there is powerful evidence that the “experience” Buchanan offered was really nostalgia for an earlier and simpler time when Americans could settle differences through talk. Today, Biden’s experience is a code word for nostalgia for the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s when politicians could compromise over most issues. Biden is a relic of that era. Just as Buchanan was a relic of the era of compromise over slavery: the 1820s and 1830s.