Joe Biden looking to have regular contact with the American people:

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10. It's only right for enthusiasm to be replaced with grimness.

Good grief! A winning candidate should be able to turn supporters into a leaping weirdos alone in their own living rooms?

Dishonest media that need to sell newspapers always pretend enthusiasm that causes people to pour out in crowds is critically important, far more so than belief in the candidate and ability to win and come through on goals. And those who believe always end up bewildered by reality.

Anyway, grimness is a determined way of dealing with trouble. Those given to punching holes in walls have Trump or Sanders, or Gabbard, as alternatives.