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Joe Biden is Fashionably Late
Has a Democratic Party moderate come to the wrong party?
“Don’t Run, Joe!”, they said. “Run, Joe, Run!” they said. He may have taken his time about it, but former Vice President Joe Biden has finally made it official.
Joe Biden is running for president.
Welcome to the New Democratic Party, former Vice President Joe Biden. You might not like it here.
Yes, it’s confusing. And confused. Whatever Speaker of the House and majority leader Nancy Pelosi says about her caucus, there is dissension in the rank and file of the Democratic leaders of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Deep, ideological divides are becoming more and more apparent as the 2020 election draws ever nearer and Democratic candidates for president lurch further and further towards the left. Presidential hopefuls are currently embracing a whole host of concepts that aren’t exactly mainstream.
Restoring voting rights to violent felons in prison, universal basic income, reparations, free health care, no more student loan debts: No position is too wildly left to be considered.
Democrats are also divided about starting impeachment proceedings against President Trump, in spite of the Mueller report failing to find any indictable offenses by the Trump administration.