Member-only story
Donald Trump Lost — Great. Joe Biden Being the One to Defeat Him is a Hard Pill to Swallow.
The neoliberal politics of Joe Biden is a major part of why America was ever fated with Donald Trump in the first place.
Trigger warning: Don’t read on if you don’t want your post-election buzz to fade just yet.
In February, I wrote a piece on the political vacuity of moderates running in the 2020 Democratic primaries. At that point in time, it appeared Pete Buttigieg was most likely the one to be groomed by the DNC to be the Democratic nominee. In a progressive pitch for Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, I focused most of my attention critiquing him rather than Biden, Amy Klobuchar, etc. But here’s what I had to say specifically about Biden at the time:
“Joe ‘Nothing Will Fundamentally Change’ Biden has already lost the “electability” argument — the entire genesis and basis of his campaign…He fights for the pre-status quo — the Obama era marked by promises for “real change” that manifested in corporate welfare, drone strikes, regime change wars, and modest change on liberal issues. Biden represents comfort in the familiarity of an idyllic past for people who have nothing to materially gain from any social justice, working class movement. Or perhaps do, but are too disillusioned and disaffected by the whole system to actually know that…
