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20 Months Ago I Said Joe Biden Was The Best Person to Lead Post-Trump America
It’s truer today than ever.
I wrote the piece below about Joe Biden in May of 2019, when he was the early frontrunner in the Democratic primary. The debate back then centered on whether the party should go for the moderate Biden, the putative best candidate to beat Trump, or a Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren type whose views more closely hewed to the mainstream of the party.
The point of the piece was that I thought this debate overlooked the most salient feature of Biden’s candidacy: That he was the best-equipped person in the country to lead a post-Trump America.
With his inauguration now upon us, I thought it useful to revisit why I thought then, and believe now more than ever, that Joe Biden is the best person to lead us out of, as Dante put it, “the dark forest” we’ve been lost in these past four years and back to a place where we Americans can once again “behold the stars.”
Piece below published in Medium, May 24, 2019
Joe Biden: The Best Person to Govern Post-Trump America
