At the moment he accepts the nomination, Joe Biden and his party have evolved into a proud force for diversity and progressivism. ed_kilgore writes
Young Joe Biden. Photo: Bettmann Archive The 2020 Democratic National Convention is the 12th Joe Biden has attended. He’s just missed one since 1972: the 1988 convention in Atlanta, when he was recovering from surgery for a brain aneurysm. That convention ended a cycle that began with Biden making his first race for president, abandoned in embarrassment when it turned out he had cribbed lines from a British Labour Party leader’s speeches.
Later in the 1970s, Democrats sought to thwart the Republican southern strategy by running for president native Georgian Jimmy Carter, whom Biden supported strongly, and by retreating from the more unpopular forms of school desegregation, which Biden stridently opposed. In the 1980s, Democrats rethought the legacy of the New Deal and the Great Society in ways that sometimes seemed innovative but sometimes left Democratic constituencies behind, and Biden was one of those early “neoliberals.
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