Lanny Davis: Biden Needs to Make Bipartisanship Great Again, or Something

Although Joe Biden is a lifelong Democrat, his political career was long defined by bipartisan compromises and reaching out to the Republican Party with legislative compromises, budget battle solutions, foreign policy consensus, and, notably, personal friendships.

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Now it’s time for him to make U.S. history by announcing, prior to the Democratic Party nominating convention, that he will name a bipartisan Cabinet and policy advisers and work with congressional Republican conservative leaders as well as progressive Democrats to find common ground on the issues Americans care about most, starting with border security, inflation, criminal justice, climate change, and support for democracy and the rule of law.  

Ed Morrissey

Say what? Maybe Davis sees Biden as a natural consensus-builder, but the rest of the political world sees Biden as one of the nastiest demagogues in Washington. Just how friendly was Uncle Joe when he claimed Mitt Romney wanted to put black people "back in chains" in 2012? How about when he claimed that Georgia's voting law made all Republicans on the side of Bull Connor? Joe Biden is and always has been a nasty piece of work. 

I'd agree that the nation needs a less polarizing president, but Davis is gaslighting his readers by claiming Biden's capable of doing that. His first term is a testament to that gaslighting -- he ran as a centrist and didn't wait a day before swinging far Left to appease the radical wing of his party. 

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