{"id":80915,"date":"2020-10-03T02:57:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T23:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/joe-biden-ready-to-stand-for-whatever-you-want-him-to\/"},"modified":"2020-10-03T02:57:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T23:57:59","slug":"joe-biden-ready-to-stand-for-whatever-you-want-him-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-biden-ready-to-stand-for-whatever-you-want-him-to\/","title":{"rendered":"#Joe Biden ready to stand for whatever you want him to"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Joe Biden ready to stand for whatever you want him to<\/strong>”
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\n Lost in the blinding gaslighting over President Trump\u2019s remarks about white supremacists during this week\u2019s presidential debate was the fact that Joe Biden proved again that he\u2019s little more than a stand-in propped up by a compliant political press.<\/p>\n

Biden was unable to answer even the most rudimentary queries about his beliefs, never mind specifics about policy. Apologies to the Twitter<\/a> expert class, but opposing Donald Trump is neither a moral doctrine nor a policy agenda.<\/p>\n

There is plenty to dislike about the president, but you rarely have to guess where he stands. Biden, on the other hand, says, \u201cI am the Democratic Party,\u201d and yet, after a half-century in American politics, we have virtually no idea what his presidency would look like.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s already put a lid on his past, and the press has obliged. The same reporters who will comb over 15 years of Trump\u2019s tax returns have shown zero curiosity in nearly 40 years of Senate papers Biden has buried somewhere in a University of Delaware basement. Then again, there\u2019s not a single significant piece of legislation Biden sponsored in his 36 years in the Senate that he still supports, so maybe it doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the media, though, I know more about some flaky QAnon candidate in Georgia than I do about the presidential front-runner\u2019s foreign-policy positions. Or much else.<\/p>\n

If Republicans were threatening to destroy the constitutional order by packing the courts and throwing out the legislative filibuster \u2014 one that Biden\u2019s mentor Barack Obama once argued was an indispensable tool of a representative democracy \u2014 there would be massive pressure on the head of the party to stake out a public position.<\/p>\n

This, incidentally, isn\u2019t a case of forcing Biden to answer for the ravings of some fringe activists \u2014 as the media is constantly demanding Republicans do. No, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer continues to tell us that \u201ceverything is on the table\u201d if Republicans confirm Amy Coney Barrett using the prescribed method provided by the Constitution. Voters don\u2019t even know if one of the candidates will blow up the integrity of the American court system in retaliation. I\u2019m not sure there has ever been a comparable situation in post-war American politics.<\/p>\n

Instead, we hear how Biden\u2019s feckless opportunism is moderation. Biden himself likes to drop a prefabricated line contending he was the one who beat Bernie Sanders, signaling to moderates that his candidacy prevailed over extremism. Why would someone whose campaign stemmed the scourge of collectivism co-sign a 110-page Menshevik-Bolshevik Unity Pact? (I exaggerate only slightly.)<\/p>\n

Maybe when Chris Wallace is done digging into the vital right-wing militia matter, he will investigate.<\/p>\n

In the past, when candidates made outlandish promises to their base during the primary, they would move back to the center. There is no center anymore. There is only Trump. And because of the press\u2019 abdication of basic professionalism, Biden, the empty vessel, can concurrently hold any position that suits you.<\/p>\n

It was Trump, for example, who brought up the Green New Deal during the first debate \u2014 the massive multitrillion-dollar attack on, yes, cars, airplanes, your food, your house and modernity in general<\/a>. Biden casually claimed that it is \u201cnot my plan,\u201d though it says, quite unmistakably, in his \u201cPlan for Climate Change and Environmental Justice\u201d that the Green New Deal is the \u201ccrucial framework for meeting the climate challenges we face.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead of fact-checking Biden, the same Washington Post that once ran a headline that read \u201cJoe Biden embraces Green New Deal as he releases climate plan<\/a>\u201d corrected Trump, asserting that \u201cBiden has never supported the Green New Deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rinse and repeat on fracking and \u201cdefunding the police.\u201d<\/p>\n

The media\u2019s greatest coup in 2020 was turning months of widespread leftist violence into a debate over a few hundred far-right-wing Proud Boys. Trump\u2019s messy answer on the matter \u2014 in which, yes, he denounced \u201cwhite supremacists\u201d for the umpteenth time \u2014 made all the front pages. Biden can label Antifa, the leftist movement responsible for the majority of violence, looting and arson over past few months, nothing more than an \u201cidea\u201d and see no blowback.<\/p>\n

It was an interesting metaphor because Joe Biden in 2020 is just an idea \u2014 a suggestion imbued with an infinite number of possibilities. Joe can be anything you want. What will the reality look like? I don\u2019t know. You don\u2019t know. He doesn\u2019t know, either.<\/p>\n

Twitter: @DavidHarsanyi<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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