The presidential hopeful has a choice to make: restoring the corporate centrism of the past, or attacking the stunning inequities highlighted by the coronavirus crisis.
People tell you who they are, and these days, they tell you on a podcast. Joe Biden’s interview series Here’s the Deal has earned some mockery in left circles as “the verbal equivalent of someone falling down a rocky hill.” But beyond the fractured syntax and low production values, you get real-time insight into how the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee understands the political moment.
And what you hear is a man at war with himself.
Judging by his personal record, you could envision his presidency as another round of triangulating disappointment. Hopes over the campaign’s widespread outreach to progressive leaders and adoption of liberal policy planks are tempered by the presence of Larry Summers at economic-policy meetings.
Since the pandemic, Biden has sounded more Sanders-like, urging fixes to cracks in the social safety net.
People tell you who they are, and these days, they tell you on a podcast. Joe Biden’s interview series Here’s the Deal has earned some mockery in left circles as “the verbal equivalent of someone falling down a rocky hill.” But beyond the fractured syntax and low production values, you get real-time insight into how the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee understands the political moment.
And what you hear is a man at war with himself.
Judging by his personal record, you could envision his presidency as another round of triangulating disappointment. Hopes over the campaign’s widespread outreach to progressive leaders and adoption of liberal policy planks are tempered by the presence of Larry Summers at economic-policy meetings.
Since the pandemic, Biden has sounded more Sanders-like, urging fixes to cracks in the social safety net.
