To win the White House, Biden doesn’t need to reach soaring heights of rhetorical perfection. He doesn’t need libraries of policy papers and briefing books full of Elizabeth Warren–esque geekery. He needs to fall back on the characteristics that Americans expect from a president. Donald Trump once famously said to Americans, “What have you got to lose?” as he asked them to place the reins of the most powerful office in the world into his pudgy little paws. The answer, it turns out, is everything.
