Asked if he still thinks there were "very fine people" on both sides of the white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, Trump says, "I was talking about people that went b/c they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E Lee. A great general, whether you like it or not" pic.twitter.com/D7O5vFWy29
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 26, 2019
Given an opportunity to revisit the subject of Charlottesville, Trump praises Robert E. Lee, reminding us which ideas he eagerly embraces and which which voters he consistently chooses to pander to. This happened, of course, because Joe Biden made Charlottesville the centerpiece of his campaign announcement video yesterday.
So Biden's candidacy has already had an impact -- we can now be appalled once again at Trump's fondness for appeals to white racism.
But this happened only because the mainstream media takes Biden more seriously than it takes most other Democrats. If Corey Booker or Kamala Harris -- or even one of the white presidential candidates -- had launched an attack similar to Biden's, I strongly suspect that it wouldn't have led to this result.
Biden will probably move to the left on a few key issues, in order to try to keep up with changing views of rank-and-file Democrats. Maybe these moves will reflect a sincere evolution in his thinking. In any case, whichever ideas he embraces will probably be taken much more seriously once it's known that he's on board. Hey, he's not a dirty hippie! He's good old Joe.
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