Joe Biden’s ‘Return to Normalcy’ Campaign Has Echoes of 1920
- Warren Harding also ran amid divisive politics, pandemic fears
- Biden, like Harding, is campaigning to end an ‘aberrant’ era
Woodrow Wilson, 1912.
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A politically inexperienced and highly divisive president, a presidential campaign waged under the shadow of a deadly pandemic, and an establishment candidate from the opposing party who promises to restore the country to a less turbulent time.
Those were the elements of the U.S. presidential election exactly 100 years ago that swept Warren G. Harding into office. The similarities to the 2020 race and Joe Biden‘s quest to unseat Donald Trump in November are unmissable.