Biden Tolerated the Radicals. Now They May Doom Him.

Today the president finally weighed in on the violent protests taking place at nearly 200 universities across the country, which have forcibly removed students, threatened Jewish students with violence, broken doors and windows and laws, set up encampments and engaged in rampant vandalism. None of this falls under the auspices of free speech, and Biden was correct to say so today. But it’s too little and too late. He’s not about to do anything meaningful to change any of this. The pressure campaign from these protesters has worked — it has pushed the administration to continuously undermine Israel’s ability to defend itself and the widespread endorsement of BDS is now essentially the mainstream position of the Democratic Party. The squad has won the argument thanks to a president unwilling to challenge them on basic aspects of policy. And Americans don’t like it, not one bit. You don’t need to see the numbers on the UNC frat GoFundMe to know that.

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Joe Biden ran to heal the nation’s soul and sold his along the way. And that’s why today, he’s losing.

Ed Morrissey

Let's hope so. But Biden didn't just tolerate the radicals -- he pandered to them, both as Obama's running mate and then after taking office in 2021, as Ben points out. He stocked his administration with radicals, many of them Obama-era officials. Biden didn't sell his soul along the way; he sold it decades ago, long before telling black voters that Mitt Romney would reinstitute slavery.

Joe Biden has always been a vicious demagogue who only cares about his own political survival. 

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