Today I learned: Seattle presidential visits can be sad.
No, I wasn’t born yesterday, and of course I expected Joe Biden to walk immediately into the waiting arms of big-tech donors upon arrival. He did the same the last time he found himself here, in late 2019, just before all hell broke loose.
But the political establishment’s East Coast residency is never more depressingly clear than when a president pays us the honor of a brief and unremarkable visit to our corner of the country. Or, as Biden affectionately referred to it on Friday, “out here” and “Silicon Valley.”
Seattle media thoroughly hyped Biden’s fly-in from Portland—no Amtrak,
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