It seems like a good time to start ground swell for a socialist party, but a bad year to run a candidate as we appear to finally have a progressive candidate in a major party. You don’t have to agree with everything someone believes to know that they’re going to move the country forward. If anything this will dilute VP Harris’s support and make it more likely to get Trump, and after 4 years of Trump there won’t be any socialism in America.
You will get comments both ways on this, but I have put lots of people on Linux Mint and they never once had to use a terminal unless they wanted to. Make no mistake, what you can do in a terminal is magic compared to what you can do without it, but you can survive just fine without it. I would suggest also looking at Zorin, and if you really want something different I strongly recommend Bodhi. Most of the distros which are easy for new users are on a Debian or Ubuntu base (Ubuntu is on a Debian base, but a lot of people forget that).