2. Biden ran a non-ideological primary campaign emphasizing his connections to Barack Obama and the need to beat Trump. For that reason and his long history of being a chameleon, changing with the times, it's unusually difficult to know how he'll govern.
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3. Biden gives every sign of wanting to run and govern as a "big tent" democrat. The people he's surrounded with range from the excellent (his longtime economic advisor Jared Bernstein) to ... Larry Summers.
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4. Some thoughts on balancing skepticism of Biden with hope about what social movements can achieve:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-progressive-agenda-democratic/ …
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Doesn’t matter. We have to vote as a block. This is a ludicrous exercise. We have to defeat trump. It can’t get any plainer than that.
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Wouldn't that imply that anything Biden does, at any point, whether in office or not, doesn't matter?
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30 Year Old Progressives: Hey, maybe this could lead to something good!? 50 Year Old Progressives: I know this song, it's a cover.
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creating toothless committees without actual policy commitments doesn't exactly inspire confidence
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he's doing this to give cover to all the republicans he's bringing in and (i.e. the people he's actually going to work for)
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I've found through experience that the candidate's record is a much better indicator of what they'll do in office than election-year promises.
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harrumph
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