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Biden might be good for the left
He has no vision. He won’t accomplish anything. He’s perfect.
It seems like forever since Bernie Sanders dropped out of the primaries. The intervening months have brought an endless parade of op-eds and open letters from prominent leftists— Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, those ex-SDS Boomers, etc. — pleading for their comrades to suck it up and vote for Joe Biden. These aren’t really worth dwelling upon in any detail since they all can be boiled down to: Biden is bad but Trump is worse.
I’m not going to give you the same spiel about harm reduction or whatever nor am I going to spout a bunch of clichés about how Donald J. Trump is an “existential threat to the Republic.” Unlike a certain liberal historian with a large Twitter following, I won’t feed you a bunch of balderdash about how Biden hews to the center of the party, and as the party base moves left, so will he (he won’t).
And I most definitely won’t bullshit about the Biden platform, calling it the most “progressive in history.”
Biden is not a good man and he won’t be a good president.
However, his presidency will be good for the left. And by that I don’t mean he’ll be a vehicle for the left’s agenda. He won’t pass even watered-down versions of those policies that the left holds dear, such as…
