Actually, he is the perfect exemplar of how the Democrats and Republicans make one big friendly-contentious family, filling themselves up at donor daddy's table. As a friend of mine who worked as a restaurant hostess reminded me, it's a family affair:
Hey Jim. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I used to seat Mario Cuomo at Trump's table in The Edwardian Room at the Plaza Hotel. This was back in '95. He was, by far, the rudest person I ever dealt with. Always a nuisance to me.
Accentuate the Negative
So, 2020 has shown clearly that there is no affirmative case for Joe Biden or the Democratic party. There is, at best, a case for sympathizing with the sincere left--progressive actors--many of whom understand all this, and themselves feel trapped within and fighting against it, because they are afraid to leave.
Indeed, the best--at least most honest--arguments are from those who acknowledge how horrible--not trivially "problematic", but unequivocally horrible from a left perspective the Democrats and their candidates are. A couple of very clear versions of that position can be found in articles from Daniel Ellsberg and my friend Tom Gallagher. Ellsberg put it perfectly:
"'Supporting Biden? Me?!
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