Biden's election will end national nightmare 2.0

[Zorro]

Moments after becoming president on August 9, 1974, Gerald Ford said, “Our long national nightmare is over.” Having served a quarter-century in Congress, he understood that presidents are to “take care” that laws produced by the first branch of government are “faithfully executed.” The nation in 1974 was eager for a collegial respite from the gladiatorial strife that had consumed the country during urban disorders and the Watergate stew of scandals.

Joe Biden’s election will end national nightmare 2.0, the nation’s second domestic debacle in two generations. Hell, Thomas Hobbes supposedly said, is truth seen too late, and in 2020, the nation, having seen it in the nick of time, will select for the Oval Office someone who, having served 36 years 16 blocks to the east, knows this: A complex nation cannot be governed well without the lubricating conciliations of a healthy legislative life.

Biden won the Democrats’ nomination by soundly defeating rivals who favored — or, pandering, said they favored — a number of niche fixations (e.g., abolishing ICE, defunding police). He clinched his nomination earlier and easier than did the winners in the Democrats’ most recent intensely contested nomination competitions (Barack Obama against Hillary Clinton in 2008; Clinton against Bernie Sanders in 2016).

Biden does not endorse Medicare-for-all: He understands, as some competitors for the nomination amazingly did not, that for several decades organized labor’s most important agenda has been negotiating employer-provided health care as untaxed compensation. Similarly, Biden does not oppose fracking, which provides many of the more than 300,000 Pennsylvania jobs supported by the oil and gas industry, and many others in Ohio and elsewhere. He understands, as some progressives seem not to, that presidential elections are won not by pleasing the most intense faction but by assembling a temperate coalition.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bidens-election-will-end-national-nightmare-20/2020/07/28/f9c01df0-d0f7-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html

[Beakybird]

1. Fuck fracking. Whoever wrote this should drink from a contaminated aquifer.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I agree. But that is a fight for another day. n/t

[still_one]

4. Exactly. We have to get in before we can do something, and Pennsylvania is a must win state

I have every confidence that if we control the WH, we can move issues like fracking in the right direction

That definitely WON'T happen under republican control

[2naSalit]

3. It's Goerge Will...

No surprise there. He's always been a wet blanket on a chilly day.

[lagomorph777]

6. The author veers from "Biden will save us" to highlighting Biden's failings

as if they are good things. I'm sure we can help him find clarity on these issues at some point, but they sure look like a personal agenda of the RW commentator who wrote this crap.

On edit: I see it's George Will. I should've known.

[Aristus]

7. You're welcome to complain to Donald Trump.

See what you get for your trouble.

[NNadir]

5. Having advanced an increasingly racist and incompetent...

...political party for decades, Will now wants to claim Biden as being cut from his cloth.

Sorry George, it's a little late.

The fact is well, Willy Horton, ring a bell?

Welfare Queens?

Trickle down?

We don't need the people who cheered for these monstrosities to sudden announce that they have either principles and/or a shred of intellectual gravitas.