Four years ago I felt that the DNC rallying around Hillary was a mistake. I took tremendous hell for it in my liberal circle of friends and on liberal discussion boards. Four years later I feel the same way about Joe Biden. I think he is the wrong candidate for this moment in American history.
It’s not only all the obvious stuff: his 50 years of voting records that will be sifted and re-sifted. It’s not only his disgraceful performance as chair in the Anita Hill hearings. Of how hard he pushed a bankruptcy bill, penned by credit card companies, that Clinton vetoed and GWB signed. And it’s not his touchy-feely way with women…and kids.
It’s not only all of that, but all of that is damning.
He is already courting big-check donors. Big checks corrupt. Bernie and Warren and Buttigieg and Beto all know better. Democratic voters know better and my hope is that many conservatives are starting to see the light on this issue as well.
Democratic voters know that the guys who write big checks own the recipients of the big checks. End of story, the righteous indignation of old school candidates and party bundles notwithstanding. The fact is the base has evolved. The era of the big check Democrat is over.
Biden is not digital, he’s analogue. The nation, the world, is digital. He is simply from the wrong era to be president. Here’s a question: “Would you want even the smartest Amish mechanic working on your car?”
We all know troglodytes. They are nice people. I struggle (not entirely successfully) not to be one. But troglodytes are the past.
Tech and social media screw the world together. Troglodytes can only have a theoretical understanding of this. Witness AOC chewing-up and spitting-out troglodytes who attack her. Witness the digital army Obama catalyzed.
Yeah, yeah, Biden has universal name recognition. So did Hillary.
But, some who still haven’t gotten memo, insist: “Hillary won the popular vote.” Woopie. She lost the EC. Biden could do the same.
Millenials need a galvanizing figure. The wild man from Vermont via Brooklyn, registered as an independent, can and has done that. Biden is no more capable of enthralling the millennials than Hillary was. They stayed home in 2016 rather than vote for her. They will stay home in 2020 if Biden is the nominee.
Biden is a third-way ruling-class democrat. A guy plugged-in to the same people as HRC and Bubba and all the Wall Street Ivy League “suits” of the last era. If he’s not on the board of Walmart it’s only because he was savvy enough to decline the position.
It’s time for change. Biden is from the last Millenium. He should not run. We should definitely not support him. He’s the safe bet the way Hillary was the safe bet in 2016.