The biggest way I can tell people are lying when they said they feel uncertain and uncomfortable in their lives is they propose increasingly crazy solutions to problems without thinking them through. Biden has gotten too good at the job.
People are absolutely (and rightly) scared to death of a second Trump term and Biden not being comfortably ahead (like Hillary was) is making them want to grab hold of anything, whether that's a new candidate or Dictator Joe, to make them feel better.
(Honestly, the people who were going Genocide Joe two weeks ago who now want him to seize absolute power are probably the ones telling on themselves the most.)
Honestly, I think Democrats feeling overconfident in 2016 and 2020 was a real problem! I remember Jen O'Malley-Dillon taking to Twitter late in the campaign and going, "Guys, this race is a lot closer than you think. You need to get out there and vote." And she was right!
I am somewhat (very minimally) comforted that, since Trump is clearly now out of office, he has no immunity if he instigates another insurrection after he loses a close race.
Eh, I think if he had started out ahead like he did in 2020 and showed no major slippage at any point, people would feel a lot better (like they felt in 2020).
Part of me seriously wonders if we did less stimulus and the economy recovered more slowly Biden could say stuff like "'you need Dems to return things to normal' and 'we're too close to 2020 to repeat it.'" But people act like the problems of 4 years ago are a decade ago.
Well, no, then the argument would still be that the Dems hadn't waved their magic economy wand and fixed everything immediately. Just the details of what they hadn't fixed would be different.
