I haven’t watched the speech, but it seems it went fine.
I’m sure his reception from some of the students was luke warm but there wasn’t any major disruption which a lot of people were hoping for.
I honestly think the push and pull between Biden and the activist left is typical for most Democratic presidents. It’s just that a lot of us are still using Obama as the benchmark, who has unique appeal among young people.
Should be "had". Maybe he still has a unique appeal among 35-year-olds but no young people care about Obama anymore. Very few young people care about Israel either. What worries me is how the entire media and political world is conflating "young voters" with homeless encampment college protesters. It just goes to show how out of touch all these pundits and politicians and campaign people are.
Go talk to your average 18-30 year-old about what's wrong with the country and they're not going to start talking about Gaza. It's cost of living, out-of-control rents, home-ownership becoming impossible, absurd corporate price-hikes that are not justified by the economy (or reflected in the stock market), plus the general feeling that we have no say in the future anymore. I don't think people realize how little this election would change if Biden arranged a successful ceasefire tomorrow. It doesn't actually address anybody's actual problems. Privileged college kids are hated by almost the entire electorate, including most other college kids! It really does remind me of those mid-2010s anti-racist college protests. The whole thing was a scam, they accomplished nothing, everybody hated them, pandering to them only made liberals look worse, and now nobody even remembers it.
