Only the coldest hearts could walk away from Biden’s speech rolling their eyes. Even evangelicals, who hate Biden’s principles, had to have been endeared to Biden’s personality. And this is the power of the eulogy, because it is the inverse of the current president. Voters with Midwestern sensibilities hate Trump’s personality, but most of them love his policies. They have learned to be transactional and politically thrifty after electing on certain conditions a thrice divorced philanderer from New York City.
But those voters aren’t going to make a deal with some self-righteous senator from Massachusetts. They aren’t going to take kindly to a progressive firebrand from Brooklyn who tells them that they are backward and bad. If Democrats want any chance, they have to recognize why Hillary Clinton could never win Wisconsin, and they have to realize why shrill socialist ideologues still can’t win in Kansas.
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