Charles Pierce always sees things from a maverick's viewpoint, but he
also always tends to make sense and to tell the awful truth.
At the end of this piece in Esquire,
in which he takes Joe Biden to task for being tone-deaf to the political music
of today, he writes, “Joe Biden would be a better president than the one we
have now. But I'm not sure everyone has a grasp on how very low that bar is.”
He bashes Biden for expressing his nostalgia about “the good ol' days”
when he was a young member of Congress who got things done through alliances
with good ol' boy southern segregationists despite their racism and their
disdain for “mongrels” in southern culture.
That's not a message for today. In fact, it's a message that would
surely appeal more to the largely racist and xenophobic Trump base than to
Democrats who, no matter what their age or status, are leaning, to a greater or
lesser degree, closer to liberalism, and away from the “good ol' boys” of the “good
ol' days”.
Pierce's message is that Democrats and liberal independents have moved
on...and so should Biden if he hopes to be a president for these times.
You can read Pierce's article at the link below:
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