Don’t Let Your Political Fervor Die With The Trump Administration.

Biden is infinitely better than Trump, but he’s far from the progressive victory we’d hoped for.

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When the 2020 presidential race was called for Biden there was dancing in the streets in New York City. In Astoria, drivers honked their horns to celebrate while little old ladies shimmied in their windows, banging tunelessly against pots and pans. It was a discordant display of joy, one that a few talented folk managed to twerk to.

I love me some patriotic twerking, but in the wake of a Biden-Harris victory I felt a bit odd about all the merry making. I felt like I was watching the celebration through a foggy window. Peeking in I could see the party-goers, hear the revelry, and bask a bit in the glow. I just couldn’t bring myself to go inside.

This celebration feels like a good-bye party, it feels as if everyone’s getting ready to clean up and go home. As if the scope of our ambition was merely to rid ourselves of Trump and, now that this country has elected Biden, we’re done here.

But I’m not done, and you shouldn’t be either. We are, as ever, in the long middle stretch of the race to a more equitable future.