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Biden Needs More Than Nostalgia

Interstate 81, southbound, you can't miss it: Exit 185 PRESIDENT BIDEN EXPRESSWAY. The three-quarter-mile road leads into downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, birthplace of Joe Biden. Keep going straight and you'll eventually end up-where else?-on Biden Street. That these namesake roads exist while the president is still alive, let alone still in office, feels odd. But this exact strangeness-forced nostalgia, preemptive memorialization-is the essence of Biden's 2024 reelection campaign.