Joe Biden has ceded a lot more ground to revolutionaries than he wants to admit
by Jeremy Beaman, Commentary Fellow
| October 01, 2020 12:32 PM
“The party is me. Right now, I am the Democratic Party,†Joe Biden said during Tuesday’s presidential debate, shooting back at President Trump’s charge that “your party wants to go socialist medicine and socialist healthcare.â€
Biden has been speaking proudly and resolutely about how he commands the party and its vision. “I beat the socialist,†Biden recently said, referring to Sen. Bernie Sanders, when a reporter asked him to address voter concerns about socialism. “Do I look like a socialist? Look at my career, my whole career. I’m not a socialist.â€
But here’s the deal, as Biden often says: Either he is in denial about the concessions he has made to his party’s revolutionary wing, or he is deliberately trying to hide them.
After Biden became the Democratic shoo-in, the party created a Biden-Sanders unity task force. You don’t create a unity task force unless there is disunity, and there was obviously disunity between old-guard Biden and more ambitious Democrats. A number of prominent Democrats were expressly further to the Left than Biden, but they are helping to fix that.
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