{"id":11662,"date":"2019-02-15T15:51:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T23:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11662"},"modified":"2019-02-15T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T23:51:09","slug":"the-mythologies-of-joe-being-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-mythologies-of-joe-being-joe-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mythologies of \u2018Joe Being Joe\u2019 Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some polls put 76-year-old Joe Biden as the Democratic front-runner for the 2020 presidential election. There is certainly some logic to that reckoning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden has far more experience than any of his likely party rivals\u201436 years in the Senate, eight years as Barack Obama\u2019s vice president and two past presidential runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He may be the only Democratic candidate who could likely win back some of the \u201cdeplorables,\u201d \u201cirredeemables\u201d and \u201cclingers\u201d of the critical Midwestern swing states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But all of that said, the folksy Biden is hardly the sober and judicious alternative to a supposedly reckless Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In many ways, Biden has been far wilder in his speech and decorum\u2014despite nearly a half-century in politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/02\/13\/the-mythologies-of-joe-being-joe-biden\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Some polls put 76-year-old Joe Biden as the Democratic front-runner for the 2020 presidential election. There is certainly some logic to that reckoning. Biden has far more experience than any of his likely party rivals\u201436 years in the Senate, eight years as Barack Obama\u2019s vice president and two past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1185,1156,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-326","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12259,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-mysterious-rise-fall-and-rise-of-joe-biden\/","url_meta":{"origin":11662,"position":0},"title":"The Mysterious Rise, Fall, and Rise of Joe Biden","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review For\u00a0most of early 2019, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden \u2014 the declared custodian of liberalism who would continue the Obama glory years \u2014 seemed unstoppable. 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