1. I've heard some people say that Biden is being cynical here, that he really doesn't believe this & is just saying it because it appeals to the older, centrist Dems who are his base. I want to argue on behalf of Biden's sincerity. He really thinks this.https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1192181187466473472 …
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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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He's able to do this because the results don't affect anyone he knows or cares about, though. Look at how contemptuous he is of young people who challenge his record. He's not open to them.
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He fought for gay marriage and moved Obama left on it. It’s not like he is a republican because he tries to work with republicans.
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I'd also suggest we all be brutally realistic what "elite friendship" really meant during Joe Biden's decades on Capitol Hill -- few women, even fewer people of colour and an awful lot of a certain kind of white man. Let's not be too sentimental about that.
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Absolutely this ^.
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This and a firm belief in a better but mythical past that he desperately wants to return to if he can.
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In 2020, he'd make a great Sec of State. Wrong man for POTUS at this moment in American history
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I’m still putting my money on Biden if the twitter feud ever materializes into a boxing match.
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THE ART OF THE DEAL II: THIS TIME IT’S AMTRAK JOE.
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