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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
Cody nails it again.
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Not sure he does. It's fun to #### all over Biden, especially when you're a jilted Bernie Bros, but Biden is doing exactly what he should be doing; staying out of the way. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon was a pretty good field general and understood this strategy. Biden, who was a gaffe machine for much of his political life, learned his lessons under Obama and has displayed a pretty impressive amount of message discipline and not get dragged into a knife fight.
On the policy argument, you can't make incredibly large swings in policy, otherwise the country will fall apart. You have to take small bites and work the process to shift norms back toward the center. Hell, getting them right of the extreme libertarian perspective would be a first step. Getting back to the center where the parties work together is likely a process that will take a generation. This is Biden's mission. Begin the shift. And the best way to do that is to allow Trump and the bat#### crazy Republicans to give you the White House, the Senate, and the House. Let them shoot themselves in the head, then walk up, dig the keys and their wallet out of the cold dead hands, and begin to implement policies and mechanisms that entrench the shift in governance. That would not have happened under anyone else, because they would have been viewed as an extremist candidate and not trusted.