“If they believe Tara Reade, they probably shouldn’t vote for me. I wouldn’t vote for me if I believed Tara Reade,” said Joe Biden. This reasonableness, for those of us who have resigned ourselves to voting for him, is a bluff, bridgetgillard writes
Photo: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images In an interview with Lawrence O’Donnell last night, Joe Biden played one of his signature rhetorical cards: When asked what he would say to women who were ready to support him over Donald Trump, but who found Tara Reade’s accusations of sexual assault against him credible, he told O’Donnell, “They probably shouldn’t vote for me.
Those of us who loathe Trump and understand that four more years of his administration would be untenable for the country have been left with no choice but to vote for Biden. Pretty much nothing he says is ever going to make me vote for him with my heart. Still, that comment is irksome and worth dissecting because it matters for the future.
But this reasonableness, for those of us who have already resigned ourselves to voting for Biden, is a bluff. “If you believe Tara Reade, don’t vote for me” is a smoke screen. It belies the fact that there are many people who do believe Reade but intend to vote for him in spite of that, people who’ve already done the painful calculus and decided that the reasonable option is to vote against their hearts.
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