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Joe Biden Is Turning Out to Be Exactly Who He Told Us He Was
Joe Biden’s rise has been a clarifying moment for the Left, showing its relative powerlessness within the Democratic Party. But the Left’s ideas are popular in the country at large. The priority now must be advancing those ideas outside the framework of Democratic Party politics.