Joe Biden the Boring Radical Quietly Outshines Donald Trump the Predictable Showman
On 4/30/21 at 6:00 AM EDT
Joe Biden's central pitch ahead of his presidential election victory was simple: To be the antithesis of Donald Trump.
As an experienced, career politician—a known entity having been vice president and a veteran senator before that—Biden was sold as a return to normalcy in the White House; a more familiar presidential tone from a unifying centrist Democrat.
Gone are the days of late-night presidential Twitter tirades against political enemies and shock announcements on social media that set politics and the media ablaze.