1. The Biden comments about Eastland & Talmadge weren't really a gaffe, but a window into a worldview. Friendship between politicians is pretty much the core of Biden's worldview. He's Pal Joey: Buddy Biden.
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4. Biden's philosophy -- which shouldn't be dismissed lightly -- is that America is a divided country (by race, class, region etc) & politicians represent these division but when they form friendship they can find areas of commonality & solve problems.
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5. Of course there are many objections that could be raised to Biden's worldview, some of which I explore here (with a shoutout to my daughter Bella's favorite show, My Little Pony). https://www.thenation.com/article/joe-biden-strom-thurmond-eastland/ …
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King Eddie still threw cousin Nicky to the wolves when the Tsar's family was trying to flee the revolution, and he had to disavow his other cousin, the Kaiser, and all of the family's German titles after WW1 started. So it's not really thicker than water.
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Biden's role in negotiating with McConnell during the Obama admin also speaks to this
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Yes. He doesn’t get how it isn’t working any more.
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This makes sense & it is reasonable for him to want to return to a time that it was possible to be friendly & collegial with people who have different views. The problem is, the GOP has no desire or motivation to do the same & they use the Dems collegiality to f*ck them over.
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The white "blood and soil" voters who stood with the slaveowners and then the night terrorists of Reconstruction and Jim Crow and segregation and rest have distorted American politics from before the republic and are still at it. They are Trump's base.
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Which means that even after watching treatment of Obama he fails to understand the place of race. His ‘buds’ all have to be white men for his worldview to work
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Except they never solved any important problems. Biden was playing footsies while his Republican “friends” were amassing power & influence. There is a diffference between ideas & policies that are based on morals vs. those that are based on self preservation and self indulgence.
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