Joe Biden and the Party of Davos

[BeyondGeography]

As a pillar of the ancien régime, Biden is ill-placed to overturn Trump’s revolution.

Roger Cohen

Is Donald Trump an aberration? If he is, Joe Biden is the perfect Democratic candidate to defeat him next year, the steady hand that can restore decency, steer a middle course between Wall Street and Main Street, and reinvigorate the shaken liberal democratic order.

I don’t think Trump is an aberration. On the contrary, he’s the face, however duplicitous, of a revolution against the Party of Davos, the network of elites whose economic and cultural prescriptions came to be seen by myriad voters across the United States and Europe as camouflage for a self-serving heist.

...For all his Scranton blue-collar beginnings, Biden will be pilloried as a faithful servant of the Party of Davos that secured impunity for the financiers behind the 2008 meltdown, a heady growth in inequality, China appeasement and the arrogance of money-wooed Democrats estranged from their working-class constituency. Unfiltered politics, technology’s dubious gift, will hurt him. These politics prize agility more than honor. The world has moved on. Whither I’m not sure, but it has. Things shift. That’s the way of the world — inexorable as biology.

...One of the most significant exchanges so far of the fight for the 2020 Democratic nomination came in the last few days when Biden said of China: “I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what? They’re not competition for us.” To which Bernie Sanders shot back that the United States had lost three million manufacturing jobs to the 2000 China trade deal. “It’s wrong,” he tweeted, “to pretend that China isn’t one of our major economic competitors.”

Not only economic, I would add. China is set on an implacable course to run the world in the second half of this century. If that is not precisely what you want for your children, thinking that “they’re not competition for us” is precisely the wrong place to start. It’s lazy thinking — and laziness has hurt the liberal center a lot over the past decade.

More at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/opinion/joe-biden.html

[Loki Liesmith]

1. Davos is my favorite GoT character

[watoos]

2. I warned everyone,

when it was all fun and games to bash Bernie and Tulsi. I said that none of our candidates are perfect, that they will all get bashed, and this is just coming from Democrats.

Just wait 6 months until our front runner gets a hole in his/her tongue, falls and ends up with brain damage, only has 6 months to live, runs a pedophile ring out of the basement of a pizza joint that doesn't have a basement, murders someone.

The Democrats bashing other Democrats is just the warm up act, the introduction to Act I. Just wait until Republicans and Russians start bashing our candidates, they will show Democrats how it's done.

Want to know how trump really beat Hillary?

1. He got his base to show up and vote.
2. he got Democrats to stay home and not vote.

Trump can get reelected with only his base voting for him if Democrats stay on the couch. If Democrats vote, Trump loses.

[abqtommy]

3. tRump did NOT "beat" Hillary,

a corrupted election process did that. Hillary was the winner of the popular vote by a count of 3 million.

[JudyM]

4. Who's in office? Popular vote isn't the way to win.

[abqtommy]

6. Obviously not when the system is corrupt!

[JudyM]

5. All this pissing on Bernie that goes on will depress turnout if he wins the nom. Some don't care

about that.

[TwilightZone]

7. If one bases one's voting decisions on the posts of random people on the internet...

one should think about reevaluating one's decision-making process.

What's said here is meaningless. Vote or don't vote, but understand that basing a decision on what random strangers say on the internet - some of whom are intentional disruptors, by the way - is misguided, at best.