Anyone pretending to be confused about Biden's policies based on whatever jumbled phrases he was able to insert between Trump interruptions can just ... go to his website, where all the policies are written down, in words.
The alleged confusion last night was about whether Biden supports the Green New Deal, about which he said some confusing things. A few points about this. First, there is no official GND. The term does not describe any particular policy agenda. It has become ...
... entirely a culture-war symbol. Cons project a bunch of fears on it; progs project a bunch of hopes on it. When Biden says he doesn't support the GND, it's the culture-war symbol -- particularly the ludicrous caricature the right has created -- that he's disavowing.
Sometimes he says he does support the GND, by which he means his substantive climate agenda shares the GND's ambitions vis a vis decarbonization & environmental justice. He wants to support the policy meat w/out all the distracting culture-war sizzle.
Obviously this is a tricky message to finesse -- and likely impossible to communicate in the midst of a chaotic debate with an asshole shouting on the other side of the stage. But everyone should be clear that this isn't really a policy dispute & Rs are not really ...
... requesting a policy clarification. They want to tie him to the GND, which they have fairly successfully demonized. He doesn't want to be tied to it. But he wants to communicate that his climate policies are bold & ambitious. That's what's going on here. </fin>
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