Anyone angling to be the Democratic nominee should espouse a real progressive agenda – just being “anti-Trump” isn’t enough
Joe Biden believes he’s going to be president. He has reason to: He’s the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination — at least right now — and holding strong, despite having no sense of physical boundaries, which doesn’t exactly conform with 2019 social norms. The long-term problem for Biden, however, is that his politics don’t either.
Biden’s confident centrism stands in contrast with not just the rest of a leftward-moving Democratic field, but much of the country as a whole. His gambit, however, is simple: after a turbulent Donald Trump term, voters will want stability. If he keeps his head down, this logic goes, and avoids decisive topics, they’ll pick avuncular “Uncle Joe” over the caustic Trump. Stable, familiar leadership for an uncertain age, right?
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