Why would he do this? The republicans fucked him over, what's the motivation behind this? Simply to win Georgia?
Also how will the dems react?
Why would he do this? The republicans fucked him over, what's the motivation behind this? Simply to win Georgia?
Also how will the dems react?
Yes to a nightmare, (cautiously) no to a massive reactionary movement.
One of the main reasons Obama produced unprecedented reaction is that he was black, and Biden isn't (and apparently neither are you if you didn't vote for him!). In addition to that, Biden will try less and do less than Obama, and he won't try to give it the same progressive gloss. Biden will also stay quieter than Obama, as he did during the campaign -- he'll attract less attention and he'll get fewer fawning media pieces.
Finally, the right's base is going to fracture. The people who want an air of respectability tolerated the hooting chuds when the hooting chuds brought them a winner, but now? From the other side, chuds clearly hate political insiders and will turn against any elected Republican in a heartbeat. I don't see it lasting.
The likelihood of a massive right wing movement also has to do with it being America. Movements don't happen here. Americans don't do anything. We're docile media consumers who engage in spectacle and posting wars. The largest grassroots movement in the country right now is Qanon.
I interpreted "reactionary movement" as something closer to the Tea Party, but you're absolutely right about anything more direct. Even the anti-lockdown and Stop the Steal protests fizzled out pretty quickly.
It won't be a protest movement, but a protest party splintered from the establishment GOP.
I'm pretty sure at this point the venn diagram of Qanon voters and the Trump or die death cult is a single circle. It'll be them plus a vast populist coalition of weird antivaxxers, cosplaying libertarian tea party holdouts, and bicoastal banker bros and unemployed factory workers from Pennsylvania and Ohio, all united in their admiration of Andrew Jackson, supporting celebrity rapists in the name of anti-cancel culture, and the desire to do hate crimes against brown and Asian people in the name of protectionism while also marrying Chinese, Vietnamese and Cuban women from reactionary conservative families.
What a time to be alive.