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You demanded it. Pleaded for it. Insisted on it.

Here it is. The case for Joe Biden.

If you listen to the Democrats who've won in the states and districts Dems most need to win in 2020, they want Biden: vox.com/2020/1/29/2107…
Previously:

The case for Elizabeth Warren. vox.com/policy-and-pol…
The case for Bernie Sanders: vox.com/policy-and-pol…
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I had a plan for this podcast with @waitbutwhy's Tim Urban, but then it went in a very different, and more fun, direction: vox.com/podcasts/2020/…
What Urban's arguing here is something I hear a lot since moving to the Bay Area: Humanity is on the cusp of genuine transformation, either towards some kind of hyperintelligence or hypergrowth, or towards total annihilation.
The reason so many people can't see it or refuse to see it is we're used to the past being roughly like the future, and so we're unable to see how rapidly things are really speeding up.
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This is a common view on the left but it’s just not true.

The right has lost as much, and arguably far more, than it’s won. Obamacare is law. Gay marriage is a right. Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security have grown in scale and generosity.
Last week, I heard a lot of talk about Trump having his best week ever, because he was not literally removed from office and was polling at almost, but not quite, 50%.

The standards for a successful GOP presidency have fallen way too far.
There’s an argument that the right cares less about big legislative achievements than the left, because the left is the party of government and wants to do big things through government.

I don’t fully buy it - conservatives wanted the Ryan budget, for instance - but maybe.
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The belief that the Democratic establishment is conspiring to stop Sanders is somehow coexisting with the fact that the Democratic establishment could've united around Biden, and didn't. vox.com/2020/2/7/21122…
I've seen a lot of baroque theories for how the Democratic establishment is trying to destroy Sanders by something something Iowa, even though the Iowa clusterfuck has been extremely good for Sanders, and very bad for his top competitors.
But if the Dem establishment had been unified in wanting to decide this primary, they would have done it by uniting around Biden early, as they did around Gore in 2000, and Clinton 2016.

They didn't, because in truth, there isn't a united Dem establishment right now.
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