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marmar

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Mon Sep 21, 2020, 10:28 AM Sep 2020

Detroit Free Press: Joe Biden is the anti-toxin America needs


(Detroit Free Press Editorial) Among the myriad lawn signs sprouting in anticipation of November's presidential election, two are noteworthy for their seeming nonpartisanship:

The first sign — "ANY FUNCTIONING ADULT 2020" — makes light of America's current upheaval, tacitly confessing how little today's disillusioned voters expect of their elected leaders.

The second, beginning with the words "IN THIS HOUSE," advertises the occupants' allegiance to a list of cardinal virtues — kindness, respect for learning, compassion for those with disabilities, etc. — as timeless and anodyne as the Girl Scout Law.

Neither sign mentions any candidate, political party or elective office. But it is telling that both signs are understood — instantly and universally — to signal the resident's opposition to Donald Trump's re-election.

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Donald Trump’s election was a tragedy whose cost Americans have scarcely begun to reckon. Its most conspicuous casualties are the disproportionate number of American lives extinguished by a pandemic that raged unchecked for months while the president shrugged off, mocked and occasionally obstructed the medical community's urgent efforts to contain it. .............(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/editorials/2020/09/20/detroit-free-press-presidential-endorsement-joe-biden-trump/5796299002/




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Detroit Free Press: Joe Biden is the anti-toxin America needs (Original Post) marmar Sep 2020 OP
Trump is toxic. Joe is tonic. soothsayer Sep 2020 #1
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