Where Have You Gone, Joe Biden of the Primaries?
The nation and the Democratic Party need a moderate president with populist tendencies and no particular affinity with the cultural left.
Third from the left: Where did that guy go?
Photographer: MARK RALSTON/AFPWith President Joe Biden’s approval ratings mired in the low 40s, and in the aftermath of last week’s worse-than-expected election results, the question of whether he’s gone too far left was all but inevitable. Equally unsurprising is that someone such as Representative Abigail Spanberger, who holds a very difficult House seat in suburban Virginia, would answer in the affirmative.
“Nobody elected him to be FDR,” she told the New York Times. “They elected him to be normal and stop the chaos.” It’s a common view among centrist Democrats, and understandable, but the formulation isn’t quite right. In large part, Americans elected FDR to be normal and stop the chaos.