Wasserman: Beware of using rallies to gauge legitimacy

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13. Thank you. So tired of this stupid meme. I am not infatuated with Biden. I rather love him and think

he would make a great president. I am not alone. Biden is widely liked and respected across the political spectrum and by diverse populations, trusted here and abroad. No comparison in stature. True, Bernie has young groupies at the age when we are followers of trends, fads, ideas new to us which we claim as our own no matter how ancient, and cool people we think think like us or for us.

Usually these are people promising to topple someone or something, usher in a new world order, and let us stay past our bedtime or do whatever “authority,” “the establishment” says we can’t, forces we exaggerate, demonize, and often misidentify.

Nuance, complexity, irony, history, and the difference between the best possible world and the impossible dream world elude us, nor do we understand yet that “in dreams begin responsibility.” But oh are we enthusiastic—a refreshing but ephemeral state with little substance, dependent upon the contagion of large groups and general loudness. Bernie is nothing if not loud.