There’s No Country For Faux Moderates Like Joe Biden
Joe Biden is a man left behind in a party he helped transform under Barack Obama, one that is divided between outright socialists on one hand, and the pink police on the other.
By Sumantra Maitra
February 12, 2020
If you watch boxing regularly, it is easy to spot when a boxer starts getting tired. It’s not the wobbly legs, misdirected uppercuts, or mistimed ducks, it is the anxious look of a knowledge that the match is getting out of control. Before anyone else, the boxer understands that he is losing, and that reflects in his look. It shows in the eventual head-bobbing that gets slower and slower to downright disoriented.
Joe Biden looks like a tired boxer whose steam ran out three rounds earlier. The incoherent speech, the anxious look of impending failure, the desperate plea to rally the crowd by cheering for someone no one will remember in two days’ time. It is somewhat depressing. Watching Biden is reminiscent of the passing of an era, of a man painfully out of his element and his time.
The primary debate immediately after Biden’s shellacking in Iowa looked like elder abuse. Biden’s well-wishers should step in. The man needs some rest.
That is not to say that his arguments against his fellow candidates lack merit. Biden, for good or for bad, learnt from his foreign policy fiasco with Iraq. He lied that he was misled by George W. Bush, because he wrote an op-ed supporting “nation building†in 2001. To claim that foreign policy interventionism is a right-wing concept is empirically flawed, as humanitarian interventions and international anti-sovereigntist “Responsibility to Protect†doctrines are a product of the Tony Blair-Bill Clinton liberal duopoly of the nineties.
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