I always think, in these types of circumstances, of the Socialist conference in Milan 1910, where the bold and impatient far left firebrand Benito Mussolini joined the not-quite-so-far left led a breakaway caucus from the far too conservative, suburban, compromised and boring Socialist leadership, splintering the centrist/leftist/far leftist vote.
As a result, the right wing defeated the beleaguered and unpopular Socialist prime minister Fiilippo something or other, and the Nationalist party rose up, bolstered by the fading royals and the rising industrialists, who led Italy into war in Turkey and then into WWI. From that disaster came the swamp of misery that led to the rise of the now-ultra conservative Mussolini and his Fascist party.
I guess my point is that the US voting population, like Italy's in 1910-1939, is a much more right-wing, xenophobic, ignorant, reactionary, selfish, short-sighted bloc than we would like to think.
Blaming Joe Biden for that will almost certainly bring us a president like Donald Trump. And that would be the end of everything.
