2. The thing with Biden is that trans-ideological friendship isn't just a matter of rhetoric, it's a core part of his identity. It always has been, which is why he has so many stories about working with the likes of Strom Thurmond.
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3. Biden is a man neither of the left or the right, but of elite friendship. He's buddy Biden, the guy who can bring people together and make deals. The enormous personal tragedies he's suffered is part of that -- it's made him open to people.
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4. On a human level, there's something admirable about Biden's cult of friendship, his sense that the personal suffering that unites us as human transcends ideology. But as a political program? It's a fucking disaster.
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5. I had a Nation column a while back explaining why friendship was so important to Biden. https://www.thenation.com/article/joe-biden-strom-thurmond-eastland/ …
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The same way Obama believed he could move beyond traditional partisan divides
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Biden totally helped Obama by successfully reaching across aisles
. They couldn’t even keep Lieberman on board with a public option and Medicare expansion during the Obamacare negotiations.
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Neither is good.
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He's right. Because if they don't, they'll get primaried by the moderate Repubs. Joe's right.
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It's far from the first time he's said it. Back in the Obama years he thought "the fever would break". That they are who they are seems beyond him.
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