Toughness alone is not going to beat Trump or the GOP. It’s going to require brains and a workable strategy, both in the 2020 election and beyond. ed_kilgore writes
Joe Biden looking tough. Photo: Scott Eisen/Getty Images In my days as a professional, card-carrying-“centrist” Democrat, one of the intramural memes that made me the craziest was the assertion that anyone who didn’t favor the progressive flavor-of-the-day policy prescription or message lacked “spine.” Not brains, but spine.
It’s an important distinction to remember in the Trump Era, when it’s a rare left-of-center political person who does not openly and loudly disparage the president and his party. Trump is himself in part the American Beauty Rose of Will-to-Power politics, who has satisfied those in the GOP who cared most about “owning the libs” and defying “political correctness.
More to the point, though, toughness is not going to beat Trump or the GOP, either. It’s going to require brains and and a workable strategy, both in the 2020 election and beyond. And it’s the apparent lack of brains exhibited by Biden’s persistent bipartisanship that’s troubling.
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