{"id":107978,"date":"2020-11-09T02:45:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T23:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/to-make-his-unifier-vow-work-joe-biden-needs-to-go-moderate\/"},"modified":"2020-11-09T02:45:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T23:45:20","slug":"to-make-his-unifier-vow-work-joe-biden-needs-to-go-moderate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/to-make-his-unifier-vow-work-joe-biden-needs-to-go-moderate\/","title":{"rendered":"#To make his ‘unifier’ vow work, Joe Biden needs to go moderate"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#To make his ‘unifier’ vow work, Joe Biden needs to go moderate<\/strong>”
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\n Joe\u00a0Biden isn\u2019t officially president-elect yet, but it seems clear he will prevail.<\/p>\n

We app<\/a>laud the sentiments of his Saturday-night victory speech. \u201cI pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but to unify,\u201d Biden vowed. And: \u201cI\u2019m a proud Democrat, but I will govern as an American.\u201d<\/p>\n

More lines we liked: Those in the opposition \u201care not our enemies. They are Americans.\u201d Indeed, \u201cLet this grim era of demonization in America begin to end here and now.\u201d And: \u201cIt\u2019s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Veep-to-be Kamala Harris hit the same point as she introduced him, saying he\u2019ll be a leader \u201cfor all people.\u201d<\/p>\n

We hope this means that he will govern as the moderate, and pull back from the positions he took to keep the AOC-Bernie wing on board through Election Day.<\/p>\n

And that he\u2019ll set a tone that encourages his supporters to drop the venom and conspiracy-theorizing that\u2019s grown dominant on the left, especially these last four years.<\/p>\n

The electorate spoke. They may have elected Biden, but they rejected radical ideas such as the Green New Deal. Republicans added seats in the House, and so far lost only one GOP senator.<\/p>\n

Pending the runoff voting in Georgia, Mitch McConnell may well remain the Senate majority leader. Even if Chuck Schumer\u2019s dreams of that job come true, Democrats will lack the mandate for all the pack-the-Supreme-Court visions they presented during the campaign \u2014 visions that help explain why they fell so short of that \u201cblue wave\u201d they expected.<\/p>\n

Yes, one Biden campaign official, Kate Bedingfield, insisted Sunday that he\u2019ll stick with the \u201cprogressive and aggressive agenda\u201d reflected in his platform.<\/p>\n

But we suspect he may listen more to the likes of Rep. Jim Clyburn, who brought him vital support at a key moment in the primaries: Clyburn revealed how much he and the late Rep. John Lewis worried that all that \u201cdefund the police\u201d thinking would derail the Black Lives Matter movement into a radicalism that won\u2019t fly with the American people.<\/p>\n

We also hope Biden will think carefully before abandoning Trump\u2019s foreign policy wholesale. He\u2019s already said he won\u2019t move the US Embassy back out of Jerusalem; he\u2019d be wise to more broadly embrace the new Middle East that Team Trump wrought \u2014 rather than reviving President Barack Obama\u2019s appeasement of the regime in Iran.<\/p>\n

Notably, Biden backed off his extreme anti-fracking vows in recent months, realizing the US economy can\u2019t afford to sacrifice its prospects for growth post-pandemic. He should apply that logic to his entire climate-change plan, and avoid crucifying the American working class on a cross of anti-carbon.<\/p>\n

As for his No. 2: We suspect he tapped Kamala Harris because he saw an underlying streak of pragmatism in a woman who, after all, used to be a tough-on-crime prosecutor. She\u2019s no longer playing only to far-left-leaning California voters, but to an essentially moderate national electorate.<\/p>\n

Harris deserves congratulations, too, for breaking three glass ceilings in a single victory. She was surely right Saturday evening to say, \u201cEvery little girl watching tonight sees that this is a county of possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s now up to Biden and Harris to unite a bitterly divided nation, pull it through the end of the pandemic and revive a suffering economy. The voters were pretty clear: They want a calm, steady ship, a return to normalcy after the coronavirus horrors and four rocky Trump years.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s give each other a chance,\u201d Biden said Saturday. We\u2019re up for that. He has his work cut out for him. We wish him well \u2014 as all Americans should.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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