Some progressives seem to be having trouble understanding the difference between two issues in this Biden-Sanders confrontation. The first is whether the Sanders campaign lied about what Biden said in 2018. Yes, it did 1/ nytimes.com/2020/01/18/us/…
Biden was attacking Paul Ryan's agenda; the campaign snipped out a few words to make it seem as if he was endorsing that agenda. And it's refusing to acknowledge that this was wrong, which is really bad 2/
Now, there's a quite different issue involving Biden's past positions. He was for years a member in good standing in DC's Very Serious People, who insisted that Social Security was in crisis and needed cuts. I spent years crusading against that dogma 3/ nytimes.com/2007/11/16/opi…
Biden's record on this and other issues is part of what makes me nervous about his willingness to confront the modern GOP. And it's fair game for Dem rivals. But it's NOT an excuse for lying about what he's said more recently 4/
And the evident decision of Sanders and associates to double down rather than apologize for an error is deeply disturbing. Progressives are supposed to be better than this 5/
By the way, here's the blow by blow of what the Sanders people did 6/ politifact.com/truth-o-meter/…
