‘Settle for Biden’ agrees with Matt Gaetz on ‘woketopian’ aim to control Biden

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Organizers behind the “Settle for Biden” meme page and website agree with Rep. Matt Gaetz’s assertion that they hope left-wing advisers would guide White House policy under a Biden administration rather than Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden himself.

“‘Settle for Biden.’ That’s the hashtag promoted by AOC and the socialists,” the firebrand Florida Republican said during a virtual Republican convention address Monday night, referencing progressive New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “The woketopians will settle for him because they will make him an extra in a movie written, produced, and directed by others.”

Those behind the Settle for Biden website and popular Instagram account with more than 126,000 followers agreed with Gaetz’s premise.

“Yep, @mattgaetz — that’s our hope!” the group said in a tweet. “The future of this nation depends on our ability to elect Joe Biden and Joe Biden’s ability to embrace calls for progressive change.”

It added, “Matt Gaetz says that Biden will be a puppet of Sanders and AOC. To us, that sounds like an endorsement!”

The group describes itself as “a grassroots group of former Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders supporters who recognize Joe Biden’s flaws but know that our nation will not survive four more years of Donald Trump.” Memes posted by the Settle for Biden page aim to combat the “Bernie or bust” mentality of some liberal voters in 2016, who declined to vote or voted third-party because Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton did not fully align with their views, an effect that arguably aided in President Trump’s win.


One key Republican argument is that Biden is a “Trojan horse” for socialism and the radical Left. Biden has adopted policies previously championed by Warren and Sanders and put Ocasio-Cortez on a Biden-Sanders unity task force to draft recommendations for the Democratic Party’s platform. Supporters of Biden, though, see his ability to bring a wide swath of ideological wings together as one of his strengths and that the lack of disaffected progressive voters will translate to an electoral advantage.

The Democratic National Committee and the Biden campaign are publicly downplaying Biden’s march to the left on policy, rolling out endorsements from Republican former officeholders and designing a convention that hoped to appeal to centrists rather than embrace the party’s growing radical wing.

“We won’t settle for decades of bad decisions by basement-dwelling Joe Biden. We settle a continent. We know that the frontier, the horizon, even the stars belong to us,” Gaetz said in his convention speech.

That’s where the agreement between Gaetz and the Settle for Biden group ends.

“Matt Gaetz has compromised his allegedly conservative values to support a man who has repeatedly cheated on multiple wives and constantly lies to the American public,” the group said in another tweet. “If he can settle for Donald Trump, we can settle for Joe Biden, a candidate who will push the country in the right direction and restore some of the decency we have lost.”

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